1 Chronicles 11 ~ 12

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11:1Then all Israel gathered themselves to David at Hebron, saying, Here we are, your bone and your flesh. Compare
11:2Even previously, when Saul was king, it was you who led out and brought in Israel. And Jehovah your God said to you, It is you who shall shepherd My people Israel, and you shall be ruler over My people Israel. Compare
11:3And all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron. And David made a covenant with them in Hebron before Jehovah, and they anointed David king over Israel according to the word of Jehovah spoken by Samuel. Compare
11:4And David and all Israel went to Jerusalem, that is, Jebus; and the Jebusites were the inhabitants of the land there. Compare
11:5And the inhabitants of Jebus said to David, You shall not come in here. But David took the stronghold of Zion, which is now the city of David. Compare
11:6And David said, Whoever strikes the Jebusites first will be the chief and the captain. And Joab the son of Zeruiah went up first, so he became chief. Compare
11:7So David dwelt in the stronghold; therefore they called it the city of David. Compare
11:8And he built the city all around, from the Millo even unto the surrounding area, and Joab repaired the rest of the city. Compare
11:9And David became greater and greater, and Jehovah of hosts was with him. Compare
11:10And these are the chief of the mighty men whom David had, who showed themselves strong with him in his kingdom, with all Israel, to make him king according to the word of Jehovah concerning Israel. Compare
11:11And these are the number of the mighty men whom David had: Jashobeam the son of a Hachmonite, the chief of the thirty; he brandished his spear against three hundred, and they were slain at one time. Compare
11:12After him was Eleazar the son of Dodo, the Ahohite; he was among the three mighty men. Compare
11:13He was with David at Pas-dammim, and the Philistines gathered themselves there for battle, and there was a plot of land full of barley there; and the people fled before the Philistines. Compare
11:14But they stationed themselves in the midst of the plot and delivered it and struck the Philistines, and Jehovah accomplished a great salvation. Compare
11:15Now three of the thirty chief men went down to the rock to David in the cave of Adullam while the army of the Philistines was encamped in the valley of Rephaim. Compare
11:16Now at that time David was in the stronghold, and the garrison of the Philistines was in Bethlehem at that time. Compare
11:17And David said longingly, If only someone would give me water to drink from the well of Bethlehem that is by the gate! Compare
11:18And the three burst through the camp of the Philistines and drew water from the well of Bethlehem that is by the gate. And they carried it and brought it to David, but David would not drink it; rather he poured it out to Jehovah. Compare
11:19And he said, Far be it from me, before my God, that I should do this! Shall I drink the blood of these men who went at the risk of their lives? For at the risk of their lives they brought it. Therefore he would not drink it. These things the three mighty men did. Compare
11:20And Abishai the brother of Joab was chief of the three. And he brandished his spear against three hundred, who were slain; and he had a name among the three. Compare
11:21He was indeed honored among the two of the thirty, and he became their leader; but he did not attain to the three. Compare
11:22And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man from Kabzeel, was great in mighty deeds. He struck the two sons of Ariel the Moabite; he also went down and struck a lion in the midst of a pit on a snowy day. Compare
11:23And he struck an Egyptian, a man of great stature, five cubits tall. And the Egyptian had a spear in his hand like a weaver's beam, but he went down to him with a staff and snatched the spear out of the hand of the Egyptian and slew him with his own spear. Compare
11:24These things Benaiah the son of Jehoiada did, and he had a name among the three mighty men. Compare
11:25He was indeed more honored than the thirty, but he did not attain to the three. And David set him over his bodyguard. Compare
11:26And the mighty men of the armies were: Asahel the brother of Joab; Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem; Compare
11:27Shammoth the Harodite; Helez the Pelonite; Compare
11:28Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite; Abiezer the Anathothite; Compare
11:29Sibbecai the Hushathite; Ilai the Ahohite; Compare
11:30Maharai the Netophathite; Heled the son of Baanah the Netophathite; Compare
11:31Ithai the son of Ribai from Gibeah of the children of Benjamin; Benaiah the Pirathonite; Compare
11:32Hurai from the brooks of Gaash; Abiel the Arbathite; Compare
11:33Azmaveth the Baharumite; Eliahba the Shaalbonite; Compare
11:34Of the sons of Hashem the Gizonite, Jonathan the son of Shagee the Hararite; Compare
11:35Ahiam the son of Sacar the Hararite; Eliphal the son of Ur; Compare
11:36Hepher the Mecherathite; Ahijah the Pelonite; Compare
11:37Hezro the Carmelite; Naarai the son of Ezbai; Compare
11:38Joel the brother of Nathan; Mibhar the son of Hagri; Compare
11:39Zelek the Ammonite; Naharai the Beerothite, the armor bearer to Joab the son of Zeruiah; Compare
11:40Ira the Ithrite; Gareb the Ithrite; Compare
11:41Uriah the Hittite; Zabad the son of Ahlai; Compare
11:42Adina the son of Shiza the Reubenite, a chief of the Reubenites, and thirty with him; Compare
11:43Hanan the son of Maacah and Joshaphat the Mithnite; Compare
11:44Uzzia the Ashterathite; Shama and Jeiel the sons of Hotham the Aroerite; Compare
11:45Jediael the son of Shimri, and Joha his brother, the Tizite; Compare
11:46Eliel the Mahavite, and Jeribai and Joshaviah the sons of Elnaam, and Ithma the Moabite; Compare
11:47Eliel and Obed and Jaasiel the Mezobaite. Compare
12:1Now these are those who came to David at Ziklag while he was still hidden away because of Saul the son of Kish, and they were among the mighty men who helped him in battle. Compare
12:2They drew the bow, and with both right and left hands they could sling stones and shoot arrows with the bow; they were from among the brothers of Saul from Benjamin. Compare
12:3The chief was Ahiezer, then Joash, the sons of Shemaah the Gibeathite; and Jeziel and Pelet, the sons of Azmaveth; and Beracah and Jehu the Anathothite; Compare
12:4And Ishmaiah the Gibeonite, a mighty man among the thirty and over the thirty; and Jeremiah and Jahaziel and Johanan and Jozabad the Gederathite; Compare
12:5Eluzai and Jerimoth and Bealiah and Shemariah and Shephatiah the Haruphite; Compare
12:6Elkanah and Isshiah and Azarel and Joezer and Jashobeam, the Korahites; Compare
12:7And Joelah and Zebadiah, the sons of Jeroham of Gedor. Compare
12:8And some of the Gadites separated themselves unto David at the stronghold in the wilderness, mighty men of valor, men fit for the service of war, who could wield shield and spear and whose faces were like the faces of lions; and they were as swift as gazelles upon the mountains: Compare
12:9Ezer the chief, Obadiah the second, Eliab the third, Compare
12:10Mishmannah the fourth, Jeremiah the fifth, Compare
12:11Attai the sixth, Eliel the seventh, Compare
12:12Johanan the eighth, Elzabad the ninth, Compare
12:13Jeremiah the tenth, Machbannai the eleventh. Compare
12:14These from among the sons of Gad were heads of the army; he who was least was equal to a hundred, and the greatest to a thousand. Compare
12:15These are the ones who crossed over the Jordan in the first month, when it overflowed all its banks; and they put to flight all those of the valleys, to the east and to the west. Compare
12:16And some of the children of Benjamin and Judah came to David at the stronghold. Compare
12:17And David went out to meet them; and he responded and said to them, If you have come to me in peace in order to help me, my heart will be knit to you; but if you have come to betray me to my adversaries, though there is no wrong in my hands, may the God of our fathers see and reprove. Compare
12:18Then the Spirit came upon Amasai, the head of the thirty, and he said, We are yours, O David, / And are with you, O son of Jesse. / Peace, peace be with you, / And peace with those who help you; / For your God helps you. And David received them and made them heads of the troops. Compare
12:19And some from Manasseh fell away to David when he came with the Philistines for battle against Saul. (But they did not help them, for the lords of the Philistines, upon deliberation, sent him away, saying, He will fall back to his master Saul at the cost of our heads.) Compare
12:20As he went to Ziklag, some fell away to him: Adnah and Jozabad and Jediael and Michael and Jozabad and Elihu and Zillethai, captains of thousands who were from Manasseh. Compare
12:21And they helped David against the band of raiders, for they were all mighty men of valor, and they were captains of the army. Compare
12:22Indeed day by day they came to David to help him, until there was a great army, like the army of God. Compare
12:23And these are the numbers of the heads of those who were armed for war and came to David at Hebron to turn the kingdom of Saul unto him according to the word of Jehovah: Compare
12:24The children of Judah who carried shield and spear were six thousand eight hundred, armed for war; Compare
12:25Of the children of Simeon, mighty men of valor for the war, seven thousand one hundred; Compare
12:26Of the children of Levi, four thousand six hundred. Compare
12:27And Jehoiada was the leader of the house of Aaron; and with him were three thousand seven hundred; Compare
12:28As well as Zadok, a young mighty man of valor; and from his father's house, twenty-two captains; Compare
12:29And of the children of Benjamin, the brothers of Saul, three thousand; for until that time the greater part of them kept their allegiance to the house of Saul; Compare
12:30And of the children of Ephraim, twenty thousand eight hundred mighty men of valor, men of renown in their fathers' houses; Compare
12:31And of the half-tribe of Manasseh, eighteen thousand, who were designated by name to come and make David king. Compare
12:32And of the children of Issachar, men who understood the times that they might know what Israel should do, the heads of them were two hundred; and all their brothers were at their command; Compare
12:33Of Zebulun, those who were able to go forth in war, who could set the battle in array with all the equipment of war, were fifty thousand, and they helped David without a double heart; Compare
12:34And of Naphtali, one thousand captains, and with them, with shield and spear, thirty-seven thousand; Compare
12:35And of the Danites who could set the battle in array, twenty-eight thousand six hundred; Compare
12:36And of Asher, those who were able to go forth in war, who could set the battle in array, forty thousand; Compare
12:37And on the other side of the Jordan, of the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh, with all the equipment of war for the battle, one hundred twenty thousand. Compare
12:38All these, men of war who could order the battle array, came with a perfect heart to Hebron to make David king over all Israel; and all the rest of Israel as well were of one heart to make David king. Compare
12:39And they were there with David for three days, eating and drinking; for their brothers had provided for them. Compare
12:40Moreover those near them, as far as Issachar and Zebulun and Naphtali, brought bread on asses and on camels and on mules and on oxen-provisions of flour, cakes of figs, and clusters of raisins, and wine and oil, and oxen and sheep, in abundance; for there was joy in Israel. Compare

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