1Chronicles:10-12
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Now the Philistines fought against Israel ;
and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines ,
and fell down slain in mount Gilboa .
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And the Philistines followed hard after Saul ,
and after his sons ;
and the Philistines slew Jonathan ,
and Abinadab ,
and Malchishua ,
the sons of Saul .
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And the battle went sore against Saul ,
and the archers hit him ,
and he was wounded of the archers .
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Then said Saul to his armourbearer ,
Draw thy sword ,
and thrust me through therewith ;
lest these uncircumcised come and abuse me .
But his armourbearer would not ;
for he was sore afraid .
So Saul took a sword ,
and fell upon it .
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And when his armourbearer saw that Saul was dead ,
he fell likewise on the sword ,
and died .
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So Saul died ,
and his three sons ,
and all his house died together .
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And when all the men of Israel that were in the valley saw that they fled ,
and that Saul and his sons were dead ,
then they forsook their cities ,
and fled :
and the Philistines came and dwelt in them .
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And it came to pass on the morrow ,
when the Philistines came to strip the slain ,
that they found Saul and his sons fallen in mount Gilboa .
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And when they had stripped him ,
they took his head ,
and his armour ,
and sent into the land of the Philistines round about ,
to carry tidings unto their idols ,
and to the people .
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And they put his armour in the house of their gods ,
and fastened his head in the temple of Dagon .
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And when all Jabeshgilead heard all that the Philistines had done to Saul ,
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They arose ,
all the valiant men ,
and took away the body of Saul ,
and the bodies of his sons ,
and brought them to Jabesh ,
and buried their bones under the oak in Jabesh ,
and fasted seven days .
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So Saul died for his transgression which he committed against the LORD ,
even against the word of the LORD ,
which he kept not ,
and also for asking counsel of one that had a familiar spirit ,
to enquire of it ;
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And enquired not of the LORD :
therefore he slew him ,
and turned the kingdom unto David the son of Jesse .
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Then all Israel gathered themselves to David unto Hebron ,
saying ,
Behold ,
we are thy bone and thy flesh .
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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 .
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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 .
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And David and all Israel went to Jerusalem ,
which is Jebus ;
where the Jebusites were ,
the inhabitants of the land .
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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 .
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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 .
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And David dwelt in the castle ;
therefore they called it the city of David .
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And he built the city round about ,
even from Millo round about :
and Joab repaired the rest of the city .
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So David waxed greater and greater :
for the LORD of hosts was with him .
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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 .
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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 .
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And after him was Eleazar the son of Dodo ,
the Ahohite ,
who was one of the three mighties .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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And David was then in the hold ,
and the Philistines '
garrison was then at Bethlehem .
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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 !
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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 ,
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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 .
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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 .
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Of the three ,
he was more honourable than the two ;
for he was their captain :
howbeit he attained not to the first three .
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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 .
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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 .
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These things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada ,
and had the name among the three mighties .
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Behold ,
he was honourable among the thirty ,
but attained not to the first three :
and David set him over his guard .
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Also the valiant men of the armies were ,
Asahel the brother of Joab ,
Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem ,
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Shammoth the Harorite ,
Helez the Pelonite ,
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Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite ,
Abiezer the Antothite ,
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Sibbecai the Hushathite ,
Ilai the Ahohite ,
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Maharai the Netophathite ,
Heled the son of Baanah the Netophathite ,
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Ithai the son of Ribai of Gibeah ,
that pertained to the children of Benjamin ,
Benaiah the Pirathonite ,
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Hurai of the brooks of Gaash ,
Abiel the Arbathite ,
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Azmaveth the Baharumite ,
Eliahba the Shaalbonite ,
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The sons of Hashem the Gizonite ,
Jonathan the son of Shage the Hararite ,
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Ahiam the son of Sacar the Hararite ,
Eliphal the son of Ur ,
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Hepher the Mecherathite ,
Ahijah the Pelonite ,
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Hezro the Carmelite ,
Naarai the son of Ezbai ,
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Joel the brother of Nathan ,
Mibhar the son of Haggeri ,
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Zelek the Ammonite ,
Naharai the Berothite ,
the armourbearer of Joab the son of Zeruiah ,
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Ira the Ithrite ,
Gareb the Ithrite ,
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Uriah the Hittite ,
Zabad the son of Ahlai ,
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Adina the son of Shiza the Reubenite ,
a captain of the Reubenites ,
and thirty with him ,
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Hanan the son of Maachah ,
and Joshaphat the Mithnite ,
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Uzzia the Ashterathite ,
Shama and Jehiel the sons of Hothan the Aroerite ,
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Jediael the son of Shimri ,
and Joha his brother ,
the Tizite ,
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Eliel the Mahavite ,
and Jeribai ,
and Joshaviah ,
the sons of Elnaam ,
and Ithmah the Moabite ,
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Eliel ,
and Obed ,
and Jasiel the Mesobaite .
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Now these are they that came to David to Ziklag ,
while he yet kept himself close because of Saul the son of Kish :
and they were among the mighty men ,
helpers of the war .
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They were armed with bows ,
and could use both the right hand and the left in hurling stones and shooting arrows out of a bow ,
even of Saul '
s brethren of Benjamin .
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The chief was Ahiezer ,
then Joash ,
the sons of Shemaah the Gibeathite ;
and Jeziel ,
and Pelet ,
the sons of Azmaveth ;
and Berachah ,
and Jehu the Antothite ,
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And Ismaiah the Gibeonite ,
a mighty man among the thirty ,
and over the thirty ;
and Jeremiah ,
and Jahaziel ,
and Johanan ,
and Josabad the Gederathite ,
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Eluzai ,
and Jerimoth ,
and Bealiah ,
and Shemariah ,
and Shephatiah the Haruphite ,
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Elkanah ,
and Jesiah ,
and Azareel ,
and Joezer ,
and Jashobeam ,
the Korhites ,
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And Joelah ,
and Zebadiah ,
the sons of Jeroham of Gedor .
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And of the Gadites there separated themselves unto David into the hold to the wilderness men of might ,
and men of war fit for the battle ,
that could handle shield and buckler ,
whose faces were like the faces of lions ,
and were as swift as the roes upon the mountains ;
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Ezer the first ,
Obadiah the second ,
Eliab the third ,
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Mishmannah the fourth ,
Jeremiah the fifth ,
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Attai the sixth ,
Eliel the seventh ,
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Johanan the eighth ,
Elzabad the ninth ,
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Jeremiah the tenth ,
Machbanai the eleventh .
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These were of the sons of Gad ,
captains of the host :
one of the least was over an hundred ,
and the greatest over a thousand .
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These are they that went over Jordan in the first month ,
when it had overflown all his banks ;
and they put to flight all them of the valleys ,
both toward the east ,
and toward the west .
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And there came of the children of Benjamin and Judah to the hold unto David .
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And David went out to meet them ,
and answered and said unto them ,
If ye be come peaceably unto me to help me ,
mine heart shall be knit unto you :
but if ye be come to betray me to mine enemies ,
seeing there is no wrong in mine hands ,
the God of our fathers look thereon ,
and rebuke it .
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Then the spirit came upon Amasai ,
who was chief of the captains ,
and he said ,
Thine are we ,
David ,
and on thy side ,
thou son of Jesse :
peace ,
peace be unto thee ,
and peace be to thine helpers ;
for thy God helpeth thee .
Then David received them ,
and made them captains of the band .
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And there fell some of Manasseh to David ,
when he came with the Philistines against Saul to battle :
but they helped them not :
for the lords of the Philistines upon advisement sent him away ,
saying ,
He will fall to his master Saul to the jeopardy of our heads .
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As he went to Ziklag ,
there fell to him of Manasseh ,
Adnah ,
and Jozabad ,
and Jediael ,
and Michael ,
and Jozabad ,
and Elihu ,
and Zilthai ,
captains of the thousands that were of Manasseh .
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And they helped David against the band of the rovers :
for they were all mighty men of valour ,
and were captains in the host .
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For at that time day by day there came to David to help him ,
until it was a great host ,
like the host of God .
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And these are the numbers of the bands that were ready armed to the war ,
and came to David to Hebron ,
to turn the kingdom of Saul to him ,
according to the word of the LORD .
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The children of Judah that bare shield and spear were six thousand and eight hundred ,
ready armed to the war .
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Of the children of Simeon ,
mighty men of valour for the war ,
seven thousand and one hundred .
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Of the children of Levi four thousand and six hundred .
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And Jehoiada was the leader of the Aaronites ,
and with him were three thousand and seven hundred ;
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And Zadok ,
a young man mighty of valour ,
and of his father '
s house twenty and two captains .
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And of the children of Benjamin ,
the kindred of Saul ,
three thousand :
for hitherto the greatest part of them had kept the ward of the house of Saul .
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And of the children of Ephraim twenty thousand and eight hundred ,
mighty men of valour ,
famous throughout the house of their fathers .
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And of the half tribe of Manasseh eighteen thousand ,
which were expressed by name ,
to come and make David king .
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And of the children of Issachar ,
which were men that had understanding of the times ,
to know what Israel ought to do ;
the heads of them were two hundred ;
and all their brethren were at their commandment .
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Of Zebulun ,
such as went forth to battle ,
expert in war ,
with all instruments of war ,
fifty thousand ,
which could keep rank :
they were not of double heart .
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And of Naphtali a thousand captains ,
and with them with shield and spear thirty and seven thousand .
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And of the Danites expert in war twenty and eight thousand and six hundred .
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And of Asher ,
such as went forth to battle ,
expert in war ,
forty thousand .
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And on the other side of Jordan ,
of the Reubenites ,
and the Gadites ,
and of the half tribe of Manasseh ,
with all manner of instruments of war for the battle ,
an hundred and twenty thousand .
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All these men of war ,
that could keep rank ,
came with a perfect heart to Hebron ,
to make David king over all Israel :
and all the rest also of Israel were of one heart to make David king .
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And there they were with David three days ,
eating and drinking :
for their brethren had prepared for them .
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Moreover they that were nigh them ,
even unto Issachar and Zebulun and Naphtali ,
brought bread on asses ,
and on camels ,
and on mules ,
and on oxen ,
and meat ,
meal ,
cakes of figs ,
and bunches of raisins ,
and wine ,
and oil ,
and oxen ,
and sheep abundantly :
for there was joy in Israel .
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And David consulted with the captains of thousands and hundreds ,
and with every leader .
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