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Authors: Tyndale
21
 But after long abstinence Paul stood forth in the midst of them [the ship's crew], and said, Sirs, ye should have hearkened unto me, and not have loosed from Crete, and to have gained this harm and loss.
22
 And now I exhort you to be of good cheer: for there shall be no loss of
any man's
life among you, but of the ship.
23
 For there stood by me this night the angel of God, whose I am, and whom I serve,
24
 saying, Fear not, Paul; thou must be brought before Caesar: and, lo, God hath given thee all them that sail with thee.
25
 Wherefore, sirs, be of good cheer: for I believe God, that it shall be even as it was told me.
26
 Howbeit we must be cast upon a certain island.
27
 But when the fourteenth night was come, as we were driven up and down in Adria, about midnight the shipmen deemed that they drew near to some country;
28
 and sounded, and found
it
twenty fathoms: and when they had gone a little further, they sounded again, and found
it
fifteen fathoms.
29
 Then fearing lest we should have fallen upon rocks, they cast four anchors out of the stern, and wished for the day.
30
 And as the shipmen were about to flee out of the ship, when they had let down the boat into the sea, under colour as though they would have cast anchors out of the foreship,
31
 Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers, Except these abide in the ship, ye cannot be saved.
32
 Then the soldiers cut off the ropes of the boat, and let her fall off.
33
 And while the day was coming on, Paul besought
them
all to take meat, saying, This day is the fourteenth day that ye have tarried and continued fasting, having taken nothing.
34
 Wherefore I pray you to take
some
meat: for this is for your health: for there shall not an hair fall from the head of any of you.
35
 And when he had thus spoken, he took bread, and gave thanks to God in presence of them all: and when he had broken
it,
he began to eat.
36
 Then were they all of good cheer, and they also took
some
meat.
37
 And we were in all in the ship two hundred threescore and sixteen souls.
38
 And when they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, and cast out the wheat into the sea.
39
 And when it was day, they knew not the land: but they discovered a certain creek with a shore, into the which they were minded, if it were possible, to thrust in the ship.
40
 And when they had taken up the anchors, they committed
themselves
unto the sea, and loosed the rudder bands, and hoisted up the mainsail to the wind, and made toward shore.
41
 And falling into a place where two seas met, they ran the ship aground; and the forepart stuck fast, and remained unmoveable, but the hinder part was broken with the violence of the waves.
42
 And the soldiers' counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim out, and escape.
43
 But the centurion, willing to save Paul, kept them from
their
purpose; and commanded that they which could swim should cast
themselves
first
into the sea,
and get to land:
44
 and the rest, some on boards, and some on
broken pieces
of the ship. And so it came to pass, that they escaped all safe to land.
To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm of David.
1
 O L
ORD
our Lord, how excellent
is
thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens.
2
 Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.
3
 When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;
4
 What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?
5
 For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.
6
 Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all
things
under his feet:
7
 All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field;
8
 The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea,
and whatsoever
passeth through the paths of the seas.
9
 O L
ORD
our Lord, how excellent
is
thy name in all the earth!
23
 The poor useth intreaties; but the rich answereth roughly.
24
 A man
that hath
friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend
that
sticketh closer than a brother.
1
 Then all Israel gathered themselves to David unto Hebron, saying, Behold, we
are
thy bone and thy flesh.
2
 And moreover in time past, even when Saul was king, thou
wast
he that leddest out and broughtest in Israel: and the L
ORD
thy God said unto thee, Thou shalt feed my people Israel, and thou shalt be ruler over my people Israel.
3
 Therefore came all the elders of Israel to the king to Hebron; and David made a covenant with them in Hebron before the L
ORD
; and they anointed David king over Israel, according to the word of the L
ORD
by Samuel.
4
 And David and all Israel went to Jerusalem, which
is
Jebus; where the Jebusites
were,
the inhabitants of the land.
5
 And the inhabitants of Jebus said to David, Thou shalt not come hither. Nevertheless David took the castle of Zion, which
is
the city of David.
6
 And David said, Whosoever smiteth the Jebusites first shall be chief and captain. So Joab the son of Zeruiah went first up, and was chief.
7
 And David dwelt in the castle; therefore they called it the city of David.
8
 And he built the city round about, even from Millo round about: and Joab repaired the rest of the city.
9
 So David waxed greater and greater: for the L
ORD
of hosts
was
with him.
10
 These also
are
the chief of the mighty men whom David had, who strengthened themselves with him in his kingdom,
and
with all Israel, to make him king, according to the word of the L
ORD
concerning Israel.
11
 And this
is
the number of the mighty men whom David had; Jashobeam, an Hachmonite, the chief of the captains: he lifted up his spear against three hundred slain
by him
at one time.
12
 And after him
was
Eleazar the son of Dodo, the Ahohite, who
was one
of the three mighties.
13
 He was with David at Pas-dammim, and there the Philistines were gathered together to battle, where was a parcel of ground full of barley; and the people fled from before the Philistines.
14
 And they set themselves in the midst of
that
parcel, and delivered it, and slew the Philistines; and the L
ORD
saved
them
by a great deliverance.
15
 Now three of the thirty captains went down to the rock to David, into the cave of Adullam; and the host of the Philistines encamped in the valley of Rephaim.
16
 And David
was
then in the hold, and the Philistines' garrison
was
then at Bethlehem.
17
 And David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me drink of the water of the well of Bethlehem, that
is
at the gate!
18
 And the three brake through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem, that
was
by the gate, and took
it,
and brought
it
to David: but David would not drink
of
it, but poured it out to the L
ORD
,
19
 and said, My God forbid it me, that I should do this thing: shall I drink the blood of these men that have put their lives in jeopardy? for with
the jeopardy of
their lives they brought it. Therefore he would not drink it. These things did these three mightiest.
20
 And Abishai the brother of Joab, he was chief of the three: for lifting up his spear against three hundred, he slew
them,
and had a name among the three.
21
 Of the three, he was more honourable than the two; for he was their captain: howbeit he attained not to the
first
three.
22
 Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done many acts; he slew two lionlike men of Moab: also he went down and slew a lion in a pit in a snowy day.
23
 And he slew an Egyptian, a man of
great
stature, five cubits high; and in the Egyptian's hand
was
a spear like a weaver's beam; and he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian's hand, and slew him with his own spear.
24
 These
things
did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and had the name among the three mighties.
25
 Behold, he was honourable among the thirty, but attained not to the
first
three: and David set him over his guard.
26
 Also the valiant men of the armies
were,
Asahel the brother of Joab, Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem,
27
 Shammoth the Harorite, Helez the Pelonite,
28
 Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, Abiezer the Antothite,
29
 Sibbecai the Hushathite, Ilai the Ahohite,
30
 Maharai the Netophathite, Heled the son of Baanah the Netophathite,
31
 Ithai the son of Ribai of Gibeah,
that pertained
to the children of Benjamin, Benaiah the Pirathonite,
32
 Hurai of the brooks of Gaash, Abiel the Arbathite,
33
 Azmaveth the Baharumite, Eliahba the Shaalbonite,
34
 the sons of Hashem the Gizonite, Jonathan the son of Shage the Hararite,
35
 Ahiam the son of Sacar the Hararite, Eliphal the son of Ur,
36
 Hepher the Mecherathite, Ahijah the Pelonite,
37
 Hezro the Carmelite, Naarai the son of Ezbai,
38
 Joel the brother of Nathan, Mibhar the son of Haggeri,
39
 Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Berothite, the armourbearer of Joab the son of Zeruiah,
40
 Ira the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite,
41
 Uriah the Hittite, Zabad the son of Ahlai,
42
 Adina the son of Shiza the Reubenite, a captain of the Reubenites, and thirty with him,
43
 Hanan the son of Maachah, and Joshaphat the Mithnite,
44
 Uzzia the Ashterathite, Shama and Jehiel the sons of Hothan the Aroerite,
45
 Jediael the son of Shimri, and Joha his brother, the Tizite,
46
 Eliel the Mahavite, and Jeribai, and Joshaviah, the sons of Elnaam, and Ithmah the Moabite,
47
 Eliel, and Obed, and Jasiel the Mesobaite.
12:
1
 Now these
are
they that came to David to Ziklag, while he yet kept himself close because of Saul the son of Kish: and they
were
among the mighty men, helpers of the war.
2
Â
They were
armed with bows, and could use both the right hand and the left in
hurling
stones and
shooting
arrows out of a bow,
even
of Saul's brethren of Benjamin.
3
 The chief
was
Ahiezer, then Joash, the sons of Shemaah the Gibeathite; and Jeziel, and Pelet, the sons of Azmaveth; and Berachah, and Jehu the Antothite,
4
 and Ismaiah the Gibeonite, a mighty man among the thirty, and over the thirty; and Jeremiah, and Jahaziel, and Johanan, and Josabad the Gederathite,
5
 Eluzai, and Jerimoth, and Bealiah, and Shemariah, and Shephatiah the Haruphite,
6
 Elkanah, and Jesiah, and Azareel, and Joezer, and Jashobeam, the Korhites,
7
 and Joelah, and Zebadiah, the sons of Jeroham of Gedor.
8
 And of the Gadites there separated themselves unto David into the hold to the wilderness men of might,
and
men of war
fit
for the battle, that could handle shield and buckler, whose faces
were like
the faces of lions, and
were
as swift as the roes upon the mountains;
9
 Ezer the first, Obadiah the second, Eliab the third,
10
 Mishmannah the fourth, Jeremiah the fifth,
11
 Attai the sixth, Eliel the seventh,
12
 Johanan the eighth, Elzabad the ninth,
13
 Jeremiah the tenth, Machbanai the eleventh.
14
 These
were
of the sons of Gad, captains of the host: one of the least
was
over an hundred, and the greatest over a thousand.
15
 These
are
they that went over Jordan in the first month, when it had overflown all his banks; and they put to flight all
them
of the valleys,
both
toward the east, and toward the west.
16
 And there came of the children of Benjamin and Judah to the hold unto David.
17
 And David went out to meet them, and answered and said unto them, If ye be come peaceably unto me to help me, mine heart shall be knit unto you: but if
ye be come
to betray me to mine enemies, seeing
there is
no wrong in mine hands, the God of our fathers look
thereon,
and rebuke
it.
18
 Then the spirit came upon Amasai,
who was
chief of the captains,
and he said,
Thine
are we,
David, and on thy side, thou son of Jesse: peace, peace
be
unto thee, and peace
be
to thine helpers; for thy God helpeth thee. Then David received them, and made them captains of the band.
