4It is as the light of the morning, when the sun comes up, a morning without clouds; making young grass come to life from the earth.
5For is not my house so with God? For he has made with me an eternal agreement, ordered in all things and certain: as for all my salvation and all my desire, will he not give it increase?
6But the evil-doers, all of them, will be like thorns to be pushed away, because they may not be gripped in the hand:
7But anyone touching them has to be armed with iron and the rod of a spear; and they will be burned with fire, every one of them.
8These are the names of David's men of war: Ishbaal the Hachmonite, chief of the three; his axe was lifted up against eight hundred put to death at one time.
9After him was Eleazar, the son of Dodai the Ahohite, one of the three great fighters, who was with David in Pas-dammim when the Philistines came together there for the fight; and when the men of Israel had gone in flight,
10He was with David and went on fighting the Philistines till his hand became tired and stiff from gripping his sword: and that day the Lord gave a great salvation, and the people came back after him only to take the goods of the Philistines.
