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“Worthless people are like thorns.
    All of them are thrown away, because they cannot be picked by hand.
A person who touches them uses iron tools
    or the shaft of a spear.
    Fire[a] will burn them up completely wherever they are.”

David’s Three Fighting Men(A)

These are the names of David’s fighting men: Josheb Basshebeth from Tahkemon’s family was leader of the three. He used a spear[b] to kill 800 men on one occasion.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 23:7 Or “The fire.”
  2. 2 Samuel 23:8 1 Chronicles 11:11; Greek “drew his sword”; Hebrew meaning of Masoretic Text uncertain.

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