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 hard against
Saul, and the archers overtook him; and he was distressed by reason of
the archers. {10:4} Then Saul said to his armor bearer, "Draw your
sword, and thrust me through with it, lest these uncircumcised come
and abuse me."
But his armor bearer would not; for he was terrified. 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 all around, 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 the LORD, because of the word of
the LORD, which he didn't keep; and also because he asked counsel of
one who had a familiar spirit, to inquire, {10:14} and didn't inquire
of the LORD: 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. The LORD 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 the LORD; and they
anointed David king over Israel, according to the word of the LORD 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 all around,
from Millo even around; and Joab repaired the rest of the city. {11:9}
David grew greater and greater; for the LORD of Hosts was with him.
{11:10} Now these are the chief of the mighty men whom David had, who
showed themselves strong with him in his kingdom, together with all
Israel, to make him king, according to the word of the LORD 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
there 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 the LORD 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 the LORD, {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 they risked their lives to bring it.
Therefore he would not drink it. The three mighty men did these things.
{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 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} Benaiah the son of Jehoiada did these things, 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 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 Yochanan, 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} Yochanan 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 have come peaceably to me to help me, my heart shall be
knit to you; but if you have come to betray me to my adversaries,
since there is no wrong in my hands, may 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 the LORD. {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 household 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, their heads 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 kinds of instruments of war, fifty thousand, and who
could command 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 kinds 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, 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 cattle, and sheep in abundance: for there was joy
in Israel.
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