Bible, King James Version
1_Chronicles
1Chr.11
[1] Then all Israel gathered themselves to David unto
Hebron, saying, Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh.
[2] And moreover in time past, even when Saul was king,
thou wast he that leddest out and broughtest in Israel: and the
LORD thy God said unto thee, Thou shalt feed my people Israel,
and thou shalt be ruler over my people Israel, and thou shalt be
ruler over my people Israel.
[3] Therefore came all the elders of Israel 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.
[4] And David and all Israel went to Jerusalem, which is
Jebus; where the Jebusites were, the inhabitants of the
land.
[5] And the inhabitants of Jebus said to David, Thou shalt
not come hither. Nevertheless David took the castle of Zion,
which is the city of David.
[6] And David said, Whosoever smiteth the Jebusites first
shall be chief and captain. So Joab the son of Zeruiah went first
up, and was chief.
[7] And David dwelt in the castle; therefore they called
it the city of David.
[8] And he built the city round about, even from Millo
round about: and Joab repaired the rest of the city.
[9] So David waxed greater and greater: for the LORD of
hosts was with him.
[10] These also are the chief of the mighty men whom David
had, who strengthened themselves with him in his kingdom, and
with all Israel, to make him king, according to the word of the
LORD concerning Israel.
[11] And this is the number of the mighty men whom David
had; Jashobeam, and Hachmonite, the chief of the captains: he
lifted up his spear against three hundred slain by him at one
time.
[12] And after him was Eleazar the son of Dodo, the
Ahohite, who was one of the three mighties.
[13] He was with David at Pas-dammim, and there the
Philistines were gathered together to battle, where was a parcel
of ground full of barley; and the people fled from before the
Philistines.
[14] And they set themselves in the midst of that parcel,
and delivered it, and slew the Philistines; and the LORD saved
them by a great deliverance.
[15] Now three of the thirty captains went down to the
rock to David, into the cave of Adullam; and the host of the
Philistines encamped in the valley of Rephaim.
[16] And David was then in the hold, and the Philistines'
garrison was then at Bethlehem.
[17] And David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me
drink of the water of the well of Bethlehem, that is at the
gate!
[18] And the three brake through the host 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,
[19] And said, My God forbid it me, that I should do this
thing: shall I drink the blood of these men that 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
these three mightiest.
[20] And Abishai the brother of Joab, he was chief of the
three: for lifting up his spear against three hundred, he slew
them, and had a name among the three.
[21] Of the three, he was more honourable than the two;
for he was their captain: howbeit he attained not to the first
three.
[22] Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man
of Kabzeel, who had done many acts; he slew two lionlike men of
Moab: also he went down and slew a lion in a pit in a snowy
day.
[23] And he slew 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 slew him with his own
spear.
[24] These things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and had
the name among the three mighties.
[25] Behold, he was honourable among the thirty, but
attained not to the first three: and David set him over his
guard.
[26] Also the valiant men of the armies were, Asahel the
brother of Joab, Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem,
[27] Shammoth the Harorite, Helez the Pelonite,
[28] Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, Abi-ezer the
Antothite,
[29] Sibbecai the Hushathite, Ilai the Ahohite,
[30] Maharai the Netophathite, Heled the son of Baanah the
Netophathite,
[31] Ithai the son of Ribai of Gibeah, that pertained to
the children of Benjamin, Benaiah the Pirathonite,
[32] Hurai of the brooks of Gaash, Abiel the
Arbathite,
[33] Azmaveth the Baharumite, Eliahba the
Shaalbonite,
[34] The sons of Hashem the Gizonite, Jonathan the son of
Shage the Hararite,
[35] Ahiam the son of Sacar the Hararite, Eliphal the son
of Ur,
[36] Hepher the Mecherathite, Ahijah the Pelonite,
[37] Hezro the Carmelite, Naarai the son of Ezbai,
[38] Joel the brother of Nathan, Mibhar the son of
Haggeri,
[39] Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Berothite, the
armourbearer of Joab the son of Zeruiah,
[40] Ira the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite,
[41] Uriah the Hittite, Zabad the son of Ahlai,
[42] Adina the son of Shiza the Reubenite, a captain of
the Reubenites, and thirty with him,
[43] Hanan the son of Maachah, and Joshaphat the
Mithnite,
[44] Uzzia the Ashterathite, Shama and Jehiel the sons of
Hothan the Aroerite,
[45] Jediael the son of Shimri, and Joha his brother, the
Tizite,
[46] Eliel the Mahavite, and Jeribai, and Joshaviah, the
sons of Elnaam, and Ithmah the Moabite,
[47] Eliel, and Obed, and Jasiel the Mesobaite.
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