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Often appears with: philistines · military discipline and training · david’s warriors · conquest, plunder, and captives · benaiah and lion pit · battle and tactics
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Josephus lists David’s most courageous warriors, especially three who fight Philistines and fetch water from Bethlehem, then adds Abishai and Benaiah’s feats, including killing a lion in a snow-filled pit.
instruments, and were made of brass. And so much shall suffice to be spoken by us about these instruments, that the readers may not be wholly unacquainted with their nature. 4. Now all the men that were about David were men of courage. Those that were most illustrious and famous of them for their actions were thirty- eight; of five of whom I will only relate the performances, for these will suffice to make manifest …