So death overtook Saul and his three sons; all his family came to an end together.
This is the list of David's men of war: Ishbaal, the son of a Hachmonite, the chief of the three: he put to death three hundred at one time with his spear.
And after him was Eleazar, the son of Dodo the Ahohite, who was one of the three great fighters.
And three of the thirty went down to David, to the rock, into the strong place of Adullam; and the army of the Philistines had taken up their position in the valley of Rephaim.
So the three, forcing a way through the Philistine army, got water from the water-hole of Beth-lehem, by the doorway into the town, and took it back to David; but David would not take it, but made an offering of it, draining it out to the Lord,
Saying, By my God, far be it from me to do this! How may I take as drink the life-blood of these men who have put their lives in danger? so he did not take it. These things did the three great men of war.
And Abishai, the brother of Joab, was chief of the thirty, for he put to death three hundred with his spear, but he had not a name among the three.
Of the thirty, he was the noblest, and was made their captain, but he was not equal to the first three.
He was honoured over the thirty, but he was not equal to the first three: and David put him over his servants.
And Jehoiada, chief of the family of Aaron, and with him three thousand, seven hundred men;
And of the children of Benjamin, the brothers of Saul, three thousand; for up to that time the greater part of them had been true to Saul.
For three days they were there with David, feasting at his table, for their brothers had made ready food for them.
And the ark of God was in the house of Obed-edom for three months; and the Lord sent a blessing on the house of Obed-edom and on all he had.
Go and say to David, The Lord says, Three things are offered to you: say which of them you will have, so that I may do it to you.
Three years when there will not be enough food; or three months of war, when you will go in flight before your haters, being in great danger of the sword; or three days of the sword of the Lord, disease in the land, and the angel of the Lord taking destruction through all the land of Israel. Now give thought to the answer I am to take back to him who sent me.
And their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. And Zeruiah had three sons: Abishai and Joab and Asahel.
And Segub was the father of Jair, who had twenty-three towns in the land of Gilead.
The sons of Judah: Er and Onan and Shelah; these three were his sons by Bathshua, the Canaanite woman. And Er, Judah's oldest son, did evil in the eyes of the Lord; and he put him to death.
The sons of Mushi: Mahli and Eder and Jeremoth, three.
The sons of Ladan: Jehiel the chief, and Zetham and Joel, three.
The sons of Shimei: Shelomoth and Haziel and Haran, three; these were the heads of the families of Ladan.
All these were sons of Heman, the king's seer in the words of God. And to make great his power God gave Heman fourteen sons and three daughters.
For forty years he was ruling as king over Israel, seven years in Hebron and thirty-three years in Jerusalem.
Even three thousand talents of gold of Ophir and seven thousand talents of the best silver, for plating the walls of the house:
And the sons of Neariah: Elioenai and Hizkiah and Azrikam, three.
He had six sons in Hebron; he was ruling there for seven years and six months, and in Jerusalem for thirty-three years.
The sons of Benjamin: Bela and Becher and Jediael, three.
Again, let us not give way to the desires of the flesh, as some of them did, of whom twenty-three thousand came to their end in one day.
But now we still have faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.
If any man makes use of a tongue, let it not be more than two, or at the most three, and in turn; and let someone give the sense:
And let the prophets give their words, but not more than two or three, and let the others be judges of what they say.
There are three witnesses, the Spirit, the water, and the blood: and all three are in agreement.
And he made three hundred smaller body-covers of hammered gold, with three pounds of gold in every cover: and the king put them in the house of the Woods of Lebanon.
For the king had Tarshish-ships at sea with the ships of Hiram; once every three years the Tarshish-ships came with gold and silver and ivory and monkeys and peacocks.
He had seven hundred wives, daughters of kings, and three hundred other wives; and through his wives his heart was turned away.
And he said to them, Go away for three days and then come back to me again. So the people went away.
For three years he was king in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Maacah, the daughter of Abishalom.
And stretching herself out on the child three times, he made his prayer to the Lord, saying, O Lord my God, be pleased to let this child's life come back to him again.
David was king over Israel for forty years: for seven years he was king in Hebron and for thirty-three years in Jerusalem.
Now for three years there was no war between Aram and Israel.
But after three years, two of the servants of Shimei went in flight to Achish, son of Maacah, king of Gath. And word was given to Shimei that his servants had gone to Gath.
And three days after the birth of my child, this woman had a child: we were together, no other-person was with us in the house but we two only.
He was the maker of three thousand wise sayings, and of songs to the number of a thousand and five.
In addition to the chiefs of the responsible men put by Solomon to oversee the work, three thousand and three hundred in authority over the workmen.
And the inner space was walled with three lines of squared stones and a line of cedar-wood boards.
The great outer square all round was walled with three lines of squared stones and a line of cedar-wood boards, round about the open square inside the house of the Lord and the covered room of the king's house.
It was supported on twelve oxen, with their back parts turned to the middle of it, three of them facing to the north, three to the west, three to the south, and three to the east; the vessel was resting on top of them.
And he made ten wheeled bases of brass; every one four cubits long, four cubits wide, and three cubits high.
There were three lines of window-frames, window facing window in every line.
And all the doors and windows had square frames, with the windows facing one another in three lines.
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