1 Chronicles Chapter 11 Back Next{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. 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 all around, from
Millo even around; 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 showed 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 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 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 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.
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