1 Chronicles 11
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
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. 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
Bethlehem. 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! 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, 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
Bethlehem, 27 Shammoth the
Harorite, Helez the
Pelonite, 28 Ira the
son of
Ikkesh the
Tekoite, Abiezer 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.