3The 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[He 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.
5Most assuredly my house is not 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, Although he doesn`t make it grow.
6But the ungodly shall be all of them as thorns to be thrust away, Because they can`t be taken with the hand
7But the man who touches them Must be armed with iron and the staff of a spear: They shall be utterly burned with fire in [their] place
8These are the names of the mighty men whom David had: Josheb-basshebeth a Tahchemonite, chief of the captains; the same was Adino the Eznite, against eight hundred slain at one time.
9After 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 were gone away.
