5. Is not my house firm before God?He has made an eternal covenant with me,set forth in detail and secured.Will he not bring to fruitionall my salvation and my every desire?
6. But the wicked are all like thorns to be cast away;they cannot be taken up by hand.
7. One wishing to touch themmust be armed with iron or the shaft of a spear.They must be utterly consumed by fire.
8. These are the names of David’s warriors. Ishbaal, the son of Hachamoni, chief of the Three. He brandished his spear over eight hundred whom he had slain in a single encounter.