The First Book of Chronicles, starting at chapter 10
{10:1} Now the Philistines fought against Israel: and the men of
Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain on Mount
Gilboa. {10:2} The Philistines followed hard after Saul and after his
sons; and the Philistines killed Jonathan, and Abinadab, and
Malchishua, the sons of Saul. {10:3} The battle went sore against
Saul, and the archers overtook him; and he was distressed by reason of
the archers. {10:4} Then said Saul to his armor bearer, Draw your
sword, and thrust me through therewith, lest these uncircumcised come
and abuse me. But his armor bearer would not; for he was sore afraid.
Therefore Saul took his sword, and fell on it. {10:5} When his armor
bearer saw that Saul was dead, he likewise fell on his sword, and
died. {10:6} So Saul died, and his three sons; and all his house died
together. {10:7} When all the men of Israel who were in the valley saw
that they fled, and that Saul and his sons were dead, they forsook
their cities, and fled; and the Philistines came and lived in them.
{10:8} It happened on the next day, when the Philistines came to strip
the slain, that they found Saul and his sons fallen on Mount Gilboa.
{10:9} They stripped him, and took his head, and his armor, and sent
into the land of the Philistines round about, to carry the news to
their idols, and to the people. {10:10} They put his armor in the
house of their gods, and fastened his head in the house of Dagon.
{10:11} When all Jabesh Gilead heard all that the Philistines had done
to Saul, {10:12} all the valiant men arose, and took away the body of
Saul, and the bodies of his sons, and brought them to Jabesh, and
buried their bones under the oak in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.
{10:13} So Saul died for his trespass which he committed against
Yahweh, because of the word of Yahweh, which he didn't keep; and also
because he asked counsel of one who had a familiar spirit, to inquire
[thereby], {10:14} and didn't inquire of Yahweh: therefore he killed
him, and turned the kingdom to David the son of Jesse.
{11:1} Then all Israel gathered themselves to David to Hebron,
saying, Behold, we are your bone and your flesh. {11:2} In times past,
even when Saul was king, it was you who led out and brought in Israel:
and Yahweh your God said to you, You shall be shepherd of my people
Israel, and you shall be prince over my people Israel. {11:3} So all
the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron; and David made a
covenant with them in Hebron before Yahweh; and they anointed David
king over Israel, according to the word of Yahweh by Samuel. {11:4}
David and all Israel went to Jerusalem (the same is Jebus); and the
Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land, were there. {11:5} The
inhabitants of Jebus said to David, You shall not come in here.
Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion; the same is the city
of David. {11:6} David said, Whoever strikes the Jebusites first shall
be chief and captain. Joab the son of Zeruiah went up first, and was
made chief. {11:7} David lived in the stronghold; therefore they
called it the city of David. {11:8} He built the city round about,
from Millo even round about; and Joab repaired the rest of the city.
{11:9} David grew greater and greater; for Yahweh of Armies was with
him. {11:10} Now these are the chief of the mighty men whom David had,
who shown themselves strong with him in his kingdom, together with all
Israel, to make him king, according to the word of Yahweh concerning
Israel. {11:11} This is the number of the mighty men whom David had:
Jashobeam, the son of a Hachmonite, the chief of the thirty; he lifted
up his spear against three hundred and killed them at one time.
{11:12} After him was Eleazar the son of Dodo, the Ahohite, who was
one of the three mighty men. {11:13} He was with David at Pasdammim,
and there the Philistines were gathered together to battle, where was
a plot of ground full of barley; and the people fled from before the
Philistines. {11:14} They stood in the midst of the plot, and defended
it, and killed the Philistines; and Yahweh saved them by a great
victory. {11:15} Three of the thirty chief men went down to the rock
to David, into the cave of Adullam; and the army of the Philistines
were encamped in the valley of Rephaim. {11:16} David was then in the
stronghold, and the garrison of the Philistines was then in Bethlehem.
{11:17} David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me water to
drink of the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate! {11:18} The
three broke through the army of the Philistines, and drew water out of
the well of Bethlehem, that was by the gate, and took it, and brought
it to David: but David would not drink of it, but poured it out to
Yahweh, {11:19} and said, My God forbid it me, that I should do this:
shall I drink the blood of these men who have put their lives in
jeopardy? for with [the jeopardy of] their lives they brought it.
Therefore he would not drink it. These things did the three mighty
men. {11:20} Abishai, the brother of Joab, he was chief of the three;
for he lifted up his spear against three hundred and killed them, and
had a name among the three. {11:21} Of the three, he was more
honorable than the two, and was made their captain: however he didn't
attain to the [first] three. {11:22} Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the
son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done mighty deeds, he killed
the two [sons of] Ariel of Moab: he went down also and killed a lion
in the midst of a pit in time of snow. {11:23} He killed an Egyptian,
a man of great stature, five cubits high; and in the Egyptian's hand
was a spear like a weaver's beam; and he went down to him with a
staff, and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian's hand, and killed
him with his own spear. {11:24} These things did Benaiah the son of
Jehoiada, and had a name among the three mighty men. {11:25} Behold,
he was more honorable than the thirty, but he didn't attain to the
[first] three: and David set him over his guard. {11:26} Also the
mighty men of the armies: Asahel the brother of Joab, Elhanan the son
of Dodo of Bethlehem, {11:27} Shammoth the Harorite, Helez the
Pelonite, {11:28} Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, Abiezer the
Anathothite, {11:29} Sibbecai the Hushathite, Ilai the Ahohite,
{11:30} Maharai the Netophathite, Heled the son of Baanah the
Netophathite, {11:31} Ithai the son of Ribai of Gibeah of the children
of Benjamin, Benaiah the Pirathonite, {11:32} Hurai of the brooks of
Gaash, Abiel the Arbathite, {11:33} Azmaveth the Baharumite, Eliahba
the Shaalbonite, {11:34} the sons of Hashem the Gizonite, Jonathan the
son of Shagee the Hararite, {11:35} Ahiam the son of Sacar the
Hararite, Eliphal the son of Ur, {11:36} Hepher the Mecherathite,
Ahijah the Pelonite, {11:37} Hezro the Carmelite, Naarai the son of
Ezbai, {11:38} Joel the brother of Nathan, Mibhar the son of Hagri,
{11:39} Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Berothite, the armor bearer of
Joab the son of Zeruiah, {11:40} Ira the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite,
{11:41} Uriah the Hittite, Zabad the son of Ahlai, {11:42} Adina the
son of Shiza the Reubenite, a chief of the Reubenites, and thirty with
him, {11:43} Hanan the son of Maacah, and Joshaphat the Mithnite,
{11:44} Uzzia the Ashterathite, Shama and Jeiel the sons of Hotham the
Aroerite, {11:45} Jediael the son of Shimri, and Joha his brother, the
Tizite, {11:46} Eliel the Mahavite, and Jeribai, and Joshaviah, the
sons of Elnaam, and Ithmah the Moabite, {11:47} Eliel, and Obed, and
Jaasiel the Mezobaite.
{12:1} Now these are those who came to David to Ziklag, while he yet
kept himself close because of Saul the son of Kish; and they were
among the mighty men, his helpers in war. {12:2} They were armed with
bows, and could use both the right hand and the left in slinging
stones and in shooting arrows from the bow: they were of Saul's
brothers of Benjamin. {12:3} The 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, {12:4} and Ishmaiah
the Gibeonite, a mighty man among the thirty, and over the thirty, and
Jeremiah, and Jahaziel, and Johanan, and Jozabad the Gederathite,
{12:5} Eluzai, and Jerimoth, and Bealiah, and Shemariah, and
Shephatiah the Haruphite, {12:6} Elkanah, and Isshiah, and Azarel, and
Joezer, and Jashobeam, the Korahites, {12:7} and Joelah, and Zebadiah,
the sons of Jeroham of Gedor. {12:8} Of the Gadites there separated
themselves to David to the stronghold in the wilderness, mighty men of
valor, men trained for war, that could handle shield and spear; whose
faces were like the faces of lions, and they were as swift as the roes
on the mountains; {12:9} Ezer the chief, Obadiah the second, Eliab the
third, {12:10} Mishmannah the fourth, Jeremiah the fifth, {12:11}
Attai the sixth, Eliel the seventh, {12:12} Johanan the eighth,
Elzabad the ninth, {12:13} Jeremiah the tenth, Machbannai the
eleventh. {12:14} These of the sons of Gad were captains of the army:
he who was least was equal to one hundred, and the greatest to one
thousand. {12:15} These are those who went over the Jordan in the
first month, when it had overflowed all its banks; and they put to
flight all them of the valleys, both toward the east, and toward the
west. {12:16} There came of the children of Benjamin and Judah to the
stronghold to David. {12:17} David went out to meet them, and answered
them, If you be come peaceably to me to help me, my heart shall be
knit to you; but if [you be come] to betray me to my adversaries,
seeing there is no wrong in my hands, the God of our fathers look
thereon, and rebuke it. {12:18} Then the Spirit came on Amasai, who
was chief of the thirty, [and he said], "We are yours, David, and on
your side, you son of Jesse: peace, peace be to you, and peace be to
your helpers; for your God helps you." Then David received them, and
made them captains of the band. {12:19} Of Manasseh also there fell
away some to David, when he came with the Philistines against Saul to
battle: but they didn't help them; for the lords of the Philistines
sent him away after consultation, saying, He will fall away to his
master Saul to the jeopardy of our heads. {12:20} As he went to
Ziklag, there fell to him of Manasseh, Adnah, and Jozabad, and
Jediael, and Michael, and Jozabad, and Elihu, and Zillethai, captains
of thousands who were of Manasseh. {12:21} They helped David against
the band of rovers: for they were all mighty men of valor, and were
captains in the army. {12:22} For from day to day men came to David to
help him, until there was a great army, like the army of God. {12:23}
These are the numbers of the heads of those who were armed for war,
who came to David to Hebron, to turn the kingdom of Saul to him,
according to the word of Yahweh. {12:24} The children of Judah who
bore shield and spear were six thousand and eight hundred, armed for
war. {12:25} Of the children of Simeon, mighty men of valor for the
war, seven thousand and one hundred. {12:26} Of the children of Levi
four thousand and six hundred. {12:27} Jehoiada was the leader of [the
house of] Aaron; and with him were three thousand and seven hundred,
{12:28} and Zadok, a young man mighty of valor, and of his father's
house twenty-two captains. {12:29} Of the children of Benjamin, the
brothers of Saul, three thousand: for hitherto the greatest part of
them had kept their allegiance to the house of Saul. {12:30} Of the
children of Ephraim twenty thousand eight hundred, mighty men of
valor, famous men in their fathers' houses. {12:31} Of the half-tribe
of Manasseh eighteen thousand, who were mentioned by name, to come and
make David king. {12:32} Of the children of Issachar, men who had
understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do, the heads
of them were two hundred; and all their brothers were at their
commandment. {12:33} Of Zebulun, such as were able to go out in the
army, who could set the battle in array, with all manner of
instruments of war, fifty thousand, and who could order [the battle
array, and were] not of double heart. {12:34} Of Naphtali one thousand
captains, and with them with shield and spear thirty-seven thousand.
{12:35} Of the Danites who could set the battle in array, twenty-eight
thousand six hundred. {12:36} Of Asher, such as were able to go out in
the army, who could set the battle in array, forty thousand. {12:37}
On the other side of the Jordan, of the Reubenites, and the Gadites,
and of the half-tribe of Manasseh, with all manner of instruments of
war for the battle, one hundred twenty thousand. {12:38} All these
being 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 also of Israel were of one heart to make David king. {12:39}
They were there with David three days, eating and drinking; for their
brothers had made preparation for them. {12:40} Moreover those who
were near to them, [even] as far as Issachar and Zebulun and Naphtali,
brought bread on donkeys, and on camels, and on mules, and on oxen,
food of meal, cakes of figs, and clusters of raisins, and wine, and
oil, and oxen, and sheep in abundance: for there was joy in Israel.
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