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1 Chronicles 11
⁸ He extended the city from the supporting terraces to the surrounding area, while Joab rebuilt the rest of Jerusalem.
⁹ And David became more and more powerful, because the LORD of Heaven’s Armies was with him.
¹⁰ These are the leaders of David’s mighty warriors. Together with all Israel, they decided to make David their king, just as the LORD had promised concerning Israel.
¹¹ Here is the record of David’s mightiest warriors: The first was Jashobeam the Hacmonite, who was leader of the Three—the mightiest warriors among David’s men. He once used his spear to kill 300 enemy warriors in a single battle.
¹² Next in rank among the Three was Eleazar son of Dodai, a descendant of Ahoah.
¹³ He was with David in the battle against the Philistines at Pas-dammim. The battle took place in a field full of barley, and the Israelite army fled.
¹⁴ But Eleazar and David held their ground in the middle of the field and beat back the Philistines. So the LORD saved them by giving them a great victory.
¹⁵ Once when David was at the rock near the cave of Adullam, the Philistine army was camped in the valley of Rephaim. The Three (who were among the Thirty—an elite group among David’s fighting men) went down to meet him there.
¹⁶ David was staying in the stronghold at the time, and a Philistine detachment had occupied the town of Bethlehem.
¹⁷ David remarked longingly to his men, “Oh, how I would love some of that good water from the well by the gate in Bethlehem.”
¹⁸ So the Three broke through the Philistine lines, drew some water from the well by the gate in Bethlehem, and brought it back to David. But David refused to drink it. Instead, he poured it out as an offering to the LORD.