1 Chronicles 11
1 And all Israel came to David in
Chebron, saying, Behold, we are thy bones and thy
flesh. 2 And heretofore when Saul was
king, thou wast he that led Israel in and out, and the Lord of Israel said to
thee, Thou shalt feed my people Israel, and thou shalt be for a ruler over
Israel. 3 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 Samuel.
4 And the king and his men went to
Jerusalem, this is Jebus; and there the Jebusites the
inhabitants of the land said to David,
5 Thou shalt not enter in hither. But
he took the strong hold of Sion: this is the city of
David. 6 And David said, Whoever first
smites the Jebusite, even he shall be chief and captain. And Joab the son of
Saruia went up first, and became chief.
7 And David dwelt in the strong hold;
therefore he called it the city of David.
8 And he fortified the city round
about. 9 And David continued to
increase, and the Lord Almighty was with him.
10 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.
11 And this
is the list of the mighty
men of David; Jesebada, son of Achaman, first of the
thirty: he drew his sword once against three hundred whom he slew at one time.
12 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.
14 And he stood in the midst of the
portion, and rescued it, and smote the Philistines; and the Lord wrought a
great deliverance.
15 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.
16 And David
was then in the hold, and the garrison of the
Philistines was then in Bethleem.
17 And David longed, and said, Who
will give me water to drink of the well of Bethleem, that is in the gate?
18 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,
19 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.
20 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.
21 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.
22 And Banaia the son of Jodae was
the son of a mighty man: many were his acts for
Cabasael: he smote two lion-like men of Moab, and he went down and smote a
lion in a pit on a snowy day. 23 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 staff, and took the spear out of the Egyptian's hand,
and slew him with his own spear.
24 These things did Banaia son of
Jodae, and his name was among the three mighties.
25 He was distinguished beyond the
thirty, yet he reached not to the first three: and
David set him over his family.
26 And the mighty
men of the forces were,
Asael the brother of Joab, Eleanan the son of Dodoe of Bethleem,
27 Samaoth the Arorite, Chelles the
Phelonite, 28 Ora the son of Ekkis
the Thecoite, Abiezer the Anathothite,
29 Sobochai the Usathite, Eli the
Achonite, 30 Marai the Netophathite,
Chthaod the son of Nooza the Netophathite,
31 Airi the son of Rebie of the hill
of Benjamin, Banaias the Pharathonite,
32 Uri of Nachali Gaas, Abiel the
Garabæthite, 33 Azbon the Baromite,
Eliaba the Salabonite, 34 the son of
Asam the Gizonite, Jonathan the son of Sola the Ararite,
35 Achim the son of Achar the
Ararite, Elphat the son of Thyrophar
36 the Mechorathrite, Achia the
Phellonite, 37 Esere the Charmadaite,
Naarai the son of Azobai, 38 Joel the
son of Nathan, Mebaal son of Agari,
39 Sele the son of Ammoni, Nachor the
Berothite, armour-bearer to the son of Saruia,
40 Ira the Jethrite, Gaber the
Jethrite, 41 Uria the Chettite, Zabet
son of Achaia, 42 Adina son of Sæza,
a chief of Ruben, and thirty with him,
43 Anan the son of Moöcha, and
Josaphat the Matthanite, 44 Ozia the
Astarothite, Samatha and Jeiel sons of Chotham the Ararite,
45 Jediel the son of Sameri, and
Jozae his brother the Thosaite,
46 Eliel the Maoite, and Jaribi, and
Josia his son, Ellaam, and Jethama the Moabite,
47 Daliel, and Obeth, and Jessiel of
Mesobia.