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1 Chronicles

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Chapter 12

1Now these are the men who came to David at Ziklag, while he was still shut off from Saul the son of Kish. And they were among the mighty men who helped him in war. 2They were armed with bows and could shoot arrows and sling stones with both the right hand and the left; they were of Benjamin, Saul’s kinsmen. 3The chief was Ahiezer, then Joash, the sons of Shemaah of Gibeah; Jeziel and Pelet, the sons of Azmaveth; Beracah, Jehu of Anathoth, 4Ishmaiah of Gibeon, a mighty man among the thirty and a leader over the thirty; Jeremiah, Jahaziel, Johanan, Jozabad of Gederah, 5Eluzai, Jerimoth, Bealiah, Shemariah, Shephatiah the Haruphite; 6Elkanah, Isshiah, Azarel, Joezer, and Jashobeam, the Korahites; 7and Joelah and Zebadiah, the sons of Jeroham of Gedor. 8From the Gadites there went over to David at the stronghold in the wilderness mighty and experienced warriors, expert with shield and spear, whose faces were like the faces of lions, and who were as swift as gazelles upon the mountains: 9Ezer the chief, Obadiah second, Eliab third, 10Mishmannah fourth, Jeremiah fifth, 11Attai sixth, Eliel seventh, 12Johanan eighth, Elzabad ninth, 13Jeremiah tenth, Machbannai eleventh. 14These Gadites were officers of the army; the least of them could attack a hundred, and the greatest a thousand. 15These are the men who crossed the Jordan in the first month, when it was overflowing all its banks, and put to flight all those in the valleys, to the east and to the west. 16Some of the people of Benjamin and Judah came to David at the stronghold. 17David went out to meet them and said to them, “If you have come to me peaceably to help me, my heart will be knit to you. But if to betray me to my enemies, although there is no wrong in my hands, then may the God of our fathers see and rebuke you.” 18Then the Spirit clothed Amasai, chief of the thirty, and he said, “We are yours, O David, and with you, O son of Jesse! Peace, peace to you, and peace to your helpers! For your God helps you.” Then David received them and made them officers of his troops. 19Some of Manasseh deserted to David when he came with the Philistines for battle against Saul. (Yet he did not help them, for the lords of the Philistines took counsel and sent him away, saying, “At peril to our own heads he will desert to his master Saul.”) 20As he went to Ziklag, there deserted to him from Manasseh: Adnah, Jozabad, Jediael, Michael, Jozabad, Elihu, and Zilthai, chiefs of thousands in Manasseh. 21They helped David against the raiding bands, for they were all mighty men of valor and were commanders in the army. 22For from day to day people kept coming to David to help him, until there was a great army, like an army of God. 23These are the numbers of the divisions of the armed men who came to David in Hebron to turn over the kingdom of Saul to him, according to the word of the LORD: 24The people of Judah bearing shield and spear were 6,800 armed for war. 25Of the Simeonites, mighty men of valor for war, 7,100. 26Of the Levites 4,600. 27Jehoiada, the leader of the house of Aaron, and with him 3,700. 28Zadok, a young man mighty in valor, and 22 commanders from his own father’s house. 29Of the people of Benjamin, kinsmen of Saul, 3,000, for up to that time the majority of them had kept their allegiance to the house of Saul. 30Of the people of Ephraim, 20,800 mighty men of valor, famous in their fathers’ houses. 31Of the half-tribe of Manasseh, 18,000, who were expressly named to come and make David king. 32Of Issachar, men who had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do, 200 chiefs, and all their kinsmen were under their command. 33Of Zebulun, 50,000 seasoned troops, equipped for battle with all the weapons of war, to help David with singleness of purpose. 34Of Naphtali, 1,000 commanders with whom were 37,000 men with shield and spear. 35Of the Danites, 28,600 men equipped for battle. 36Of Asher, 40,000 seasoned troops, equipped for battle. 37Of the other side of the Jordan, of the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, 120,000 men equipped for battle with all the weapons of war. 38All these, men of war, arrayed in battle order, came to Hebron with a whole heart to make David king over all Israel. And all the rest of Israel were of a single mind to make David king. 39And they were there with David for three days, eating and drinking, for their brothers had made preparation for them. 40And also their relatives from as far as Issachar and Zebulun and Naphtali brought food on donkeys and on camels and on mules and on oxen, abundant provisions of flour, cakes of figs, clusters of raisins, wine, oil, oxen, and sheep, for there was joy in Israel.