1Chr 11
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And all Israel came to David in Chebron, saying, Behold, we are your bones and your
flesh.
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And Gr. yesterday and the third day; Hebraism heretofore when Saul was king, you were he who led Israel in and out, and the
Lord
of Israel said to you, You shall feed my people Israel, and you shall be for a ruler
over Israel.
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And all the elders of Israel came to the king to Chebron; and king David made a covenant
with them in Chebron before the Lord: and they anointed David to be king over Israel,
according to the word of the Lord by Gr. the hand of Samuel Samuel.
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And the king and his men went to Jerusalem, this is Jebus; and there the Jebusites
the inhabitants of the land said to David,
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You shall not enter in here. But he took the strong hold of Sion: this is the city
of David.
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And David said, Gr. every one smiting, etc. Whoever first smites the Jebusite, even he shall be chief and captain. And Joab
the
son of Saruia went up first, and became chief.
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And David Gr. sat dwelt in the strong hold; therefore he called it the city of David.
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And he Gr. built fortified the city round about.
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And David continued to increase, and the Lord Almighty was with him.
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And these are the chiefs of the mighty men, whom David had, who strengthened themselves
with him in his kingdom, with all Israel, to make him king, according to the word
of the Lord concerning Israel.
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And this is the Gr. number list of the mighty men of David; Jesebada, son of Achaman, first of the thirty: he
drew his sword once against three hundred Gr. slain whom he slew at one time.
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And after him Eleazar son of Dodai, the Achochite: he was among the three mighty men.
13
He was with David in Phasodamin, and the Philistines were gathered there to battle,
and there was a portion of the field full of barley; and the people fled before the
Philistines.
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And he stood in the midst of the portion, and rescued it, and smote the Philistines;
and the Lord wrought a great deliverance.
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And three of the thirty chiefs went down to the rock to David, to the cave of Odollam,
and the camp of the Philistines was in the giants’ valley.
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And David was then in the hold, and the garrison of the Philistines was then in Bethleem.
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And David longed, and said, Who will give me water to drink of the well of Bethleem,
that is in the gate?
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And the three broke through the camp of the Philistines, and they drew water out of
the well that was in Bethleem, which was in the gate, and they took it, and came to
David: but David would not drink it, and poured it out to the Lord, and said,
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Lit. God act mercifully to me, because of doing this thing; See Mt 16:23 God forbid that I should do this thing: shall I drink
the blood of these men with
their lives? for with the peril of their lives they brought it. So he would not drink
it. These things did the three mighty men.
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And Abisa the brother of Joab, he was chief of three: he drew his sword against three
hundred slain at one time, and he had a name among the second three.
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He was more famous than the two others of the three, and he was chief over them; yet
he reached not to the first three.
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And Banaia the son of Jodae was the son of a mighty man: many were his acts for Cabasael:
he smote two See the Hebrew lion-like men of Moab, and he went down and smote a lion in a pit on a snowy day.
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And he smote an Egyptian, a wonderful man five cubits high; and in the hand of the
Egyptian there was a spear like a weavers’ beam; and Banaia went down to him with
a Or, rod staff, and took the spear out of the Egyptian’s hand, and slew him with his own spear.
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These things did Banaia son of Jodae, and his name was among the three mighties.
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He was distinguished beyond the thirty, yet he reached not to the first three: and
David set him over his family.
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And the mighty men of the forces were, Asael the brother of Joab, Eleanan the son
of Dodoe of Bethleem,
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Samaoth the Arorite, Chelles the Phelonite,
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Ora the son of Ekkis the Thecoite, Abiezer the Anathothite,
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Sobochai the Usathite, Eli the Achonite,
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Marai the Netophathite, Chthaod the son of Nooza the Netophathite,
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Airi the son of Rebie of the hill of Benjamin, Banaias the Pharathonite,
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Uri of Heb. brooks or valleys of Gass Nachali Gaas, Abiel the Garabaethite,
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Azbon the Baromite, Eliaba the Salabonite,
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the son of Asam the Gizonite, Jonathan the son of Sola the Ararite,
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Achim the son of Achar the Ararite, Elphat the son of Thyrophar
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the Mechorathrite, Achia the Phellonite,
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Esere the Charmadaite, Naarai the son of Azobai,
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Joel the son of Nathan, Mebaal son of Agari,
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Sele the son of Ammoni, Nachor the Berothite, armour-bearer to the son of Saruia,
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Ira the Jethrite, Gaber the Jethrite,
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Uria the Chettite, Zabet son of Achaia,
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Adina son of Saeza, a chief of Ruben, and thirty with him,
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Anan the son of Moocha, and Josaphat the Matthanite,
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Ozia the Astarothite, Samatha and Jeiel sons of Chotham the Ararite,
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Jediel the son of Sameri, and Jozae his brother the Thosaite,
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Eliel the Maoite, and Jaribi, and Josia his son, Ellaam, and Jethama the Moabite,
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Daliel, and Obeth, and Jessiel of Mesobia.