| 12 | 1 Chronicles | ||
| 1 | These are the men who joined David at Ziklag while he was banned from the presence of Saul son of Kish. They ranked among the warriors valiant in battle. | David's Benjamite soldiers. 1Chr.12.1-7 | |
| 2 | They carried bows and could sling stones or shoot arrows with the left hand or the right; they were Benjamites, kinsmen of Saul. | ||
| 3 | The foremost were Ahiezer and Joash, the sons of Shemaah the Gibeathite; Jeziel and Pelet, men of Beth-azmoth; Berachah and Jehu of Anathoth; | ||
| 4 | Ishmaiah the Gibeonite, a hero among the thirty and a chief among them; Jeremiah, Jahaziel, Johanan, and Josabad of Gederah; | ||
| 5 | Eluzai, Jerimoth, Bealiah, Shemariah, and Shephatiah the Haruphite; | ||
| 6 | Elkanah, Isshiah, Azareel, Joezer, Jashobeam, the Korahites; | ||
| 7 | and Joelah and Zebadiah sons of Jeroham, of Gedor. | ||
| 8 | Some Gadites also joined David at the stronghold in the wilderness, valiant men trained for war, who could handle the heavy shield and spear, grim as lions and swift as gazelles on the hills. | David's Soldiers from Gad. 1Chr.12.8-15 | |
| 9 | Ezer was their chief, Obadiah the second, Eliab the third; | ||
| 10 | Mishmannah the fourth and Jeremiah the fifth; | ||
| 11 | Attai the sixth and Eliel the seventh; | ||
| 12 | Johanan the eighth and Elzabad the ninth; | ||
| 13 | Jeremiah the tenth and Machbanai the eleventh. | ||
| 14 | These were chiefs of the Gadites in the army, the least of them a match for a hundred, the greatest a match for a thousand. | ||
| 15 | These were the men who in the first month crossed the Jordan, which was in full flood in all its reaches, and wrought havoc in the valleys, east and west. | ||
| 16 | Some men of Benjamin and Judah came to David at the stronghold. | The soldiers from Benjamin & Judah. 1Chr.12.16-18 | |
| 17 | David went out to them and said, 'If you come as friends to help me, join me and welcome; but if you come to betray me to my enemies, innocent though I am of any crime of violence, may the God of our fathers see and judge.' | ||
| 18 | At that a spirit took possession of Amasai, the chief of the thirty, and he said:
We are with you, son of Jesse! Greetings, greetings to you and greetings to your ally! For your God is your ally. | The soldiers from Manasseh. 1Chr.12.18-22 | |
| 19 | Some men of Manasseh had deserted to David when he went with the Philistines to war against Saul, though he did not, in fact, fight on the side of the Philistines. Their princes brusquely dismissed him, saying to themselves that he would desert them for his master Saul, and that would cost them their heads. | ||
| 20 | The men of Manasseh who deserted to him when he went to Ziklag were these: Adnah, Jozabad, Jediael, Michael, Jozabad, Elihu, and Zilthai, each commanding his thousand in Manasseh. | ||
| 21 | It was they who stood valiantly by David against the raiders, for they were all good fighters, and they were given commands in his forces. | ||
| 22 | From day to day men came in to help David, until he had gathered an immense army. | ||
| 23 | These are the numbers of the armed bands which joined David at Hebron to transfer Saul's sovereignty to him, as the LORD had said: | David's forces. 1Chr.12.23-40 | |
| 24 | men of Judah, bearing heavy shield and spear, six thousand eight hundred, drafted for active service; | ||
| 25 | of Simeon, fighting men drafted for active service, seven thousand one hundred; | ||
| 26 | of Levi, four thousand six hundred, | ||
| 27 | together with Jehoiada prince of the house of Aaron and three thousand seven hundred men, | ||
| 28 | and Zadok a valiant fighter, with twenty-two officers of his own clan; | ||
| 29 | of Benjamin, Saul's kinsmen, three thousand, though most of them had hitherto remained loyal to the house of Saul, | ||
| 30 | of Ephraim, twenty thousand eight hundred, fighting men, famous in their own clans; | ||
| 31 | of the half tribe of Manasseh, eighteen thousand, who had been nominated to come and make David king; | ||
| 32 | of Issachar, whose tribesmen were skilled in reading the signs of the times to discover what course Israel should follow, two hundred chiefs, with all their kinsmen under their command; | ||
| 33 | of Zebulun, fifty thousand troops well-drilled for battle, armed with every kind of weapon, bold and single-minded; | ||
| 34 | of Naphtali, a thousand officers with thirty-seven thousand men bearing heavy shield and spear; | ||
| 35 | of the Danites, twenty-eight thousand six hundred well-drilled for battle; | ||
| 36 | of Asher, forty thousand troops well-drilled for battle; | ||
| 37 | of the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half tribe of Manasseh east of Jordan, a hundred and twenty thousand, armed with every kind of weapon. | ||
| 38 | All these warriors, bold men in battle, came to Hebron, loyally determined to make David king over the whole of Israel; the rest of Israel, too, had but one thought, to make him king. | ||
| 39 | They spent three days there with David, eating and drinking, for their kinsmen made provision for them. | ||
| 40 | Their neighbours also round about, as far away as Issachar, Zebulun, and Naphtali, brought food on asses and camels, on mules and oxen, supplies of meal, fig-cakes, raisin-cakes, wine and oil, oxen and sheep, in plenty; for there was rejoicing in Israel. | ||
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