2 Samuel 23

1 Now these are the last words of David.

David the son of Jesse says,

the man who was raised on high says,

the anointed of the God of Jacob,

the sweet psalmist of Israel:

2 "Yahweh’s Spirit spoke by me.

His word was on my tongue.

3 The God of Israel said,

the Rock of Israel spoke to me,

‘One who rules over men righteously,

who rules in the fear of God,

4 shall be as the light of the morning when the sun rises,

a morning without clouds,

when the tender grass springs out of the earth,

through clear shining after rain.’

5 Isn’t my house so with God?

Yet he has made with me an everlasting covenant,

ordered in all things, and sure,

for it is all my salvation and all my desire.

Won’t he make it grow?

6 But all the ungodly will be as thorns to be thrust away,

because they can’t be taken with the hand.

7 The man who touches them must be armed with iron and the staff of a spear.

They will be utterly burned with fire in their place."

8 These are the names of the mighty men whom David had: Josheb Basshebeth a Tahchemonite, chief of the captains; he was called Adino the Eznite, who killed eight hundred at one time. 9 After him was Eleazar the son of Dodai the son of an Ahohite, one of the three mighty men with David when they defied the Philistines who were there gathered together to battle, and the men of Israel had gone away. 10 He arose and struck the Philistines until his hand was weary, and his hand froze to the sword; and Yahweh worked a great victory that day; and the people returned after him only to take plunder. 11 After him was Shammah the son of Agee a Hararite. The Philistines had gathered together into a troop where there was a plot of ground full of lentils; and the people fled from the Philistines. 12 But he stood in the middle of the plot and defended it, and killed the Philistines; and Yahweh worked a great victory.

13 Three of the thirty chief men went down, and came to David in the harvest time to the cave of Adullam; and the troop of the Philistines was encamped in the valley of Rephaim. 14 David was then in the stronghold; and the garrison of the Philistines was then in Bethlehem. 15 David said longingly, "Oh that someone would give me water to drink from the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate!"

16 The three mighty men broke through the army 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 he would not drink of it, but poured it out to Yahweh. 17 He said, "Be it far from me, Yahweh, that I should do this! Isn’t this the blood of the men who risked their lives to go?" Therefore he would not drink it. The three mighty men did these things.

18 Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief of the three. He lifted up his spear against three hundred and killed them, and had a name among the three. 19 Wasn’t he most honorable of the three? Therefore he was made their captain. However he wasn’t included as one of the three.

20 Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done mighty deeds, killed the two sons of Ariel of Moab. He also went down and killed a lion in the middle of a pit in a time of snow. 21 He killed a huge Egyptian, and the Egyptian had a spear in his hand; but he went down to him with a staff and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian’s hand, and killed him with his own spear. 22 Benaiah the son of Jehoiada did these things, and had a name among the three mighty men. 23 He was more honorable than the thirty, but he didn’t attain to the three. David set him over his guard.

24 Asahel the brother of Joab was one of the thirty: Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem, 25 Shammah the Harodite, Elika the Harodite, 26 Helez the Paltite, Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, 27 Abiezer the Anathothite, Mebunnai the Hushathite, 28 Zalmon the Ahohite, Maharai the Netophathite, 29 Heleb the son of Baanah the Netophathite, Ittai the son of Ribai of Gibeah of the children of Benjamin, 30 Benaiah a Pirathonite, Hiddai of the brooks of Gaash. 31 Abialbon the Arbathite, Azmaveth the Barhumite, 32 Eliahba the Shaalbonite, the sons of Jashen, Jonathan, 33 Shammah the Hararite, Ahiam the son of Sharar the Ararite, 34 Eliphelet the son of Ahasbai, the son of the Maacathite, Eliam the son of Ahithophel the Gilonite, 35 Hezro the Carmelite, Paarai the Arbite, 36 Igal the son of Nathan of Zobah, Bani the Gadite, 37 Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Beerothite, armor bearers to Joab the son of Zeruiah, 38 Ira the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite, 39 and Uriah the Hittite: thirty-seven in all.

Ngā Kupu Whakamutunga a Rāwiri

1 Nā, ko ngā kupu whakamutunga ēnei a Rāwiri.

"He kupu tēnei nā Rāwiri tama a Hehe,

he kupu hoki nā te tangata i whakarewaina ki runga,

nā tā te Atua o Hākopa i whakawahi ai,

nā te kaihīmene āhuareka o Īharaira:

2 "He kaiwhakapuaki ahau i te kupu a te Wairua o Ihowā;

kei tōku arero tāna kōrero.

3 I kōrero te Atua o Īharaira,

i mea te Kāmaka o Īharaira ki ahau:

‘Ko ia te kaiwhakatakoto tikanga mō ngā tāngata,

e whakatakoto tikanga ana i runga i te wehi ki a Ihowā,

4 ka rite ia ki te mārama o te ata ina whiti te rā,

o te ata kāhore nei he kapua;

ki te tarutaru tupu hou e pihi ake ana i te whenua

i te mea ka whiti te rā i te maonga o te ua.’

5 "He pono ehara tōku whare i te pēnā i te aroaro o te Atua;

heoi kua takoto tāna kawenata ū tonu ki ahau,

rite rawa ngā aha katoa, mau rawa.

Nō te mea ko tōku whakaoranga katoa tēnei,

ko tāku hoki e whakaahuareka ai,

ahakoa kāhore e meinga ana e ia kia tupu.

6 Ko te hunga atuakore ia ka rite katoa ki te tātarāmoa e āia atu ana,

e kore nei e hopukia atu e te ringa.

7 Engari, ko te tangata e whakapā atu,

kia kapi ia i te rino, kia mau hoki ki te kakau o te tao;

ā, ka tahuna rawatia rātou ki te ahi i tō rātou wāhi."

Ngā Toa Mārohirohi a Rāwiri

8 Ko ngā ingoa ēnei o ngā tāngata mārohirohi a Rāwiri: ko Iohepepahepete Takamoni, ko ia te tino rangatira; ko Arino Eteni anō ia, i ara ake tāna tao ki ngā rau e waru, patua iho i te whakaekenga kotahi.

9 I muri i a ia ko Ereātara tama a Roro Ahohi; ko ia tētahi o ngā mārohirohi, o ngā hoa tokotoru o Rāwiri i tā rātou whakataranga ki ngā Pirihitini i huihui ki reira ki te whawhai, i te mea kua riro ngā tāngata o Īharaira, 10 whakatika ana ia, ā, patua iho ngā Pirihitini ā, ngenge noa tōna ringa, piri noa tōna ringa ki te hoari; ā, nui atu te wikitōria i meinga e Ihowā i taua rā; ā, hoki ana te iwi i muri i a ia, he hui kau i ngā parakete.

11 Ā, i muri i a ia ko Hamaha tama a Ake Harari. Nā, ko te huihuinga o ngā Pirihitini ki te taua, ki tētahi wāhi oneone e kapi ana i te pī; ā, rere ana te iwi i te aroaro o ngā Pirihitini. 12 Heoi, tū ana tērā i waenganui o taua wāhi, nā, ka mau i a ia, patua iho e ia ngā Pirihitini; nā, nui atu te whakaoranga i whakaora ai a Ihowā.

13 Nā, ka haere e toru o ngā rangatira e toru tekau ki raro, ā, ka tae ki a Rāwiri i te kotinga wīti ki te ana i Aturama; ā, i te noho tērā te ope o ngā Pirihitini i te raorao i Repaima. 14 Nā, i roto a Rāwiri i te pourewa i taua wā; i Pēterehema anō ngā hōia pupuri a ngā Pirihitini i taua wā. 15 Nā, ka minamina a Rāwiri, ā, ka mea, "Auē, te ai he tangata hei kawe wai mōku hei inu i te puna i Pēterehema, tērā i te kūwaha!" 16 Nā, wāhi pū ana aua toa tokotoru nā, waenganui o te puni o ngā Pirihitini, ā, utuhia ana he wai i te puna o Pēterehema, i tērā i te kūwaha tangohia ana, mauria ana ki a Rāwiri; otiia kīhai ia i pai ki te inu, nā, ringihia ana e ia hei mea ki a Ihowā. 17 Ā, ka mea, "Auē, kia meatia tēnei e ahau, e Ihowā; kia inu ahau i te toto o ngā tāngata i haere whakamomori nei ki te mate?"

Nā, kīhai ia i pai ki te inu. Ko ēnei ngā mahi a aua mārohirohi tokotoru.

18 Nā, ko Āpihai teina o Ioapa tama a Teruia te rangatira o te tokotoru. Ā, i ara ake tāna tao ki ngā rau e toru, patua iho e ia; i whai ingoa hoki ia i roto i te tokotoru. 19 He teka ianei nōna te korōria nui o te tokotoru? Ā, meinga ana ia hei rangatira mō rātou; otiia kīhai ia i uru ki te tokotoru tuatahi.

20 Nā, ko Penaia tama a Iehoiara, ko te tama a tētahi tangata mārohirohi nō Kapateere, he nui āna mahi toa, ā, i patua e ia ngā tama tokorua a Ariere o Moapa. I haere anō hoki ia ki raro, ā, patua ana e ia tētahi raiona i roto i te wā o te hukarere. 21 Nāna hoki tētahi Īhipiana i patu, he tangata pakari. Nā, he tao i te ringa o te Īhipiana; otiia haere atu ana ia ki raro, ki a ia, he tokotoko tāna, kapohia ana e ia te tao i te ringa o te Īhipiana, ā, patua ana ia e ia ki tāna tao anō. 22 Nā Penaia tama a Iehoiara ēnei mahi; ā, i whai ingoa ia i roto i ngā mārohirohi tokotoru. 23 Nui ake tōna korōria i tō te toru tekau; otiia kīhai ia i uru ki te tokotoru tuatahi. Nā, meinga ana ia e Rāwiri hei rangatira mō āna kaitiaki.

24 Ko Atahere teina o Ioapa tētahi o te toru tekau: ko Erehanana tama a Roro o Pēterehema, 25 ko Hamaha Harori, ko Erika Harori, 26 ko Herete Parati, ko Ira tama a Ikehe Tekoi, 27 ko Apiētere Anetoti, ko Mepunai Huhati, 28 ko Taramono Ahohi, ko Maharai Netopati, 29 ko Herepe tama a Paana, he Netopati, ko Itai tama a Ripai, nō Kipea, nō ngā tama a Pineamine, 30 ko Penaia Piratoni, ko Hirai, nō ngā awaawa o Kāha, 31 ko Apiarapono Arapati, ko Ātamawete Parahumi, 32 ko Eriāhapa Haaraponi, nō ngā tama a Iahene, ko Honatana, 33 ko Hamaha Harari, ko Ahiama tama a Harara Harari, 34 ko Eriperete tama a Ahahapai tama a te Maakati, ko Eriama tama a Ahitopere Kironi, 35 ko Heterai Karameri, ko Paarai Ārapi, 36 ko Ikara tama a Nātana o Topa, ko Pani Kari; 37 ko Tereke Āmoni, ko Nahari Peeroti, ko ngā kaimau patu a Ioapa tama a Teruia, 38 ko Ira Ītiri, ko Karepa Ītiri, 39 ko Uria Hiti, ki te huihuia, e toru tekau mā whitu.