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A Tale Of Old by devimcy: 2:23pm On Jun 11, 2009 |
Men Of David my heart is enslaved by thought of old in ancient Israel it has found a tale yet untold in the manner i am going to declare it on this mountain full of cold sail oh sail sheep of great warriors in Israel for the cedars are at your mercy fig trees bow on seeing you the archers are at your might the king's enemies tremble at your presence great n valiant men of battle are you oh! mighty men of David let defend the city of our God n the habitation of our people you chorus on your way to battle field behold the terrible works wroth by your hands in battle n how quick you waxed great in the midstĀ of your foes I'll sing a song of old a song about a tale untold yea! that, i will do in this mountain full of cold talk about David n you will talk about Adino the Ezrite chief among the captains champion of champions i call him who lifted up his spear in battle n it claim the lives of eight hundred enemies talk about David n you will talk about Eleazar the son of Dodo who smote the Philistines until his hand was weary n cleave to the sword talk about David n you will talk bout Agee the Hararite who stood firm alone when the whole of Israel ran away from the philistine he stood in the midst of ground n defendended it with heads of hundreds of philistine on the floor talk about David n you will talk about the three mighty men they broke through the host of philistines to get water out of the well of Bethlehem when the king was thirsty the king heard of it n marvel Abishai the son of zeruiah is one of the three mighty men he is was a force to reckon in battle stronger than the bulls of Mexico is my brother Abishai at a time in battle, he lifts up his spear n it claim three hundred lives Benaiah theson of Jehoida is one the three mighty men He slew two lion likemen of moab also with his hands he slew a lion with a stick only he fought an Egyptian who had a heavy spear n with the spear of the Egyptian he slew the Egyptian talk about David n you will talk about Elhanam the son of Jair who slew Lah'mi the brother of Goliath talk about David n you will talk about Jonathan the son of David brother Shimea he stood against a man of great stature a man whose fingers and toes were four n twenty talk about David n you will talk about Joab the son of Zeruiah who went up to Jerusalem n smote the jebusite so as to pave way for king David into Jerusalem this singular act made joab the captain of the host of Israel talk about David n you will talk about all those men whose name are written in the book of second chronicle 11;26-47 this heroes are the ssecretbehind the victories of King David of old oh! my lips must tell this tale of old i will buy it n not have it sold for in my quest for greatness it has made me bold |
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