1Ch 11:1 Then all Israel gathered themselves to David unto Hebron, saying,
Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh.
1Ch 11:2 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.
1Ch 11:3 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.
1Ch 11:4 And David and all Israel went to Jerusalem, which is Jebus; where the
Jebusites were, the inhabitants of the land.
1Ch 11:5 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.
1Ch 11:6 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.
1Ch 11:7 And David dwelt in the castle; therefore they called it the city of
David.
1Ch 11:8 And he built the city round about, even from Millo round about: and
Joab repaired the rest of the city.
1Ch 11:9 So David waxed greater and greater: for the Lord of hosts was with him.
1Ch 11:10 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.
1Ch 11:11 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.
1Ch 11:12 And after him was Eleazar the son of Dodo, the Ahohite, who was one of
the three mighties.
1Ch 11:13 He was with David at Pasdammim, 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.
1Ch 11:14 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.
1Ch 11:15 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.
1Ch 11:16 And David was then in the hold, and the Philistines' garrison was then
at Bethlehem.
1Ch 11:17 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!
1Ch 11:18 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,
1Ch 11:19 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.
1Ch 11:20 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.
1Ch 11:21 Of the three, he was more honourable than the two; for he was their
captain: howbeit he attained not to the first three.
1Ch 11:22 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.
1Ch 11:23 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.
1Ch 11:24 These things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and had the name among
the three mighties.
1Ch 11:25 Behold, he was honourable among the thirty, but attained not to the
first three: and David set him over his guard.
1Ch 11:26 Also the valiant men of the armies were, Asahel the brother of Joab,
Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem,
1Ch 11:27 Shammoth the Harorite, Helez the Pelonite,
1Ch 11:28 Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, Abiezer the Antothite,
1Ch 11:29 Sibbecai the Hushathite, Ilai the Ahohite,
1Ch 11:30 Maharai the Netophathite, Heled the son of Baanah the Netophathite,
1Ch 11:31 Ithai the son of Ribai of Gibeah, that pertained to the children of
Benjamin, Benaiah the Pirathonite,
1Ch 11:32 Hurai of the brooks of Gaash, Abiel the Arbathite,
1Ch 11:33 Azmaveth the Baharumite, Eliahba the Shaalbonite,
1Ch 11:34 The sons of Hashem the Gizonite, Jonathan the son of Shage the
Hararite,
1Ch 11:35 Ahiam the son of Sacar the Hararite, Eliphal the son of Ur,
1Ch 11:36 Hepher the Mecherathite, Ahijah the Pelonite,
1Ch 11:37 Hezro the Carmelite, Naarai the son of Ezbai,
1Ch 11:38 Joel the brother of Nathan, Mibhar the son of Haggeri,
1Ch 11:39 Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Berothite, the armourbearer of Joab
the son of Zeruiah,
1Ch 11:40 Ira the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite,
1Ch 11:41 Uriah the Hittite, Zabad the son of Ahlai,
1Ch 11:42 Adina the son of Shiza the Reubenite, a captain of the Reubenites, and
thirty with him,
1Ch 11:43 Hanan the son of Maachah, and Joshaphat the Mithnite,
1Ch 11:44 Uzzia the Ashterathite, Shama and Jehiel the sons of Hothan the
Aroerite,
1Ch 11:45 Jediael the son of Shimri, and Joha his brother, the Tizite,
1Ch 11:46 Eliel and Mahavite, and Jeribai, and Joshaviah, the sons of Elnaam,
and Ithmah the Moabite,
1Ch 11:47 Eliel, and Obed, and Jasiel the Mesobaite.