1 CHRONICLES —— CHAPTER 11
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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.
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, an 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 Beth-lehem.
17 And David longed, and said, Oh that one
would give me drink of the water of the well of Beth-lehem, that is
at the gate!
18 And the three brake through the host of the
Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Beth-lehem, 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 Beth-
lehem,
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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