1 Chronicles 11:10-41
David’s Mighty Men
10 aNow these are the chiefs of David’s mighty men, who gave him strong support in his kingdom, together with all Israel, to make him king, baccording to the word of the Lord concerning Israel. 11This is an account of David’s mighty men: cJashobeam, a dHachmonite, was echief of the three. ▼▼Compare 2 Samuel 23:8; Hebrew thirty, or captains
He wielded his spear against 300 whom he killed at one time. 12And next to him among the three mighty men was Eleazar the son of gDodo, the Ahohite. 13He was with David at Pas-dammim hwhen the Philistines were gathered there for battle. There was a plot of ground full of barley, and the men fled from the Philistines. 14But he took his ▼
▼Compare 2 Samuel 23:12; Hebrew they . . . their
stand in the midst of the plot and defended it and killed the Philistines. And the Lord saved them by a great victory. 15Three of the thirty chief men went down to the rock to David at the cave of Adullam, when the army of Philistines was encamped in the jValley of Rephaim. 16David was then in the stronghold, and the kgarrison of the Philistines was then at Bethlehem. 17And David said longingly, “Oh that someone would give me water to drink from the well of Bethlehem that is by the gate!” 18Then the three mighty men broke through the camp 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 it. He poured it out to the Lord 19and said, “Far be it from me before my God that I should do this. Shall I drink the lifeblood of these men? For at the risk of their lives they brought it.” Therefore he would not drink it. These things did the three mighty men.
20Now Abishai, the brother of Joab, was chief of the thirty. ▼
▼Syriac; Hebrew three
And he wielded his spear against 300 men and killed them and won a name beside the three. 21He was the most renowned ▼▼Compare 2 Samuel 23:19; Hebrew more renowned among the two
of the thirty ▼▼Syriac; Hebrew three
and became their commander, but he did not attain to the three. 22And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was a valiant man ▼
▼Syriac; Hebrew the son of a valiant man
of Kabzeel, a doer of great deeds. He struck down two heroes of Moab. He also went down and struck down a lion in a pit on a day when snow had fallen. 23And he struck down an Egyptian, a man of great stature, five cubits ▼▼A cubit was about 18 inches or 45 centimeters
tall. The Egyptian had in his hand a spear qlike a weaver’s beam, but Benaiah went down to him with a staff and snatched the spear out of the Egyptian’s hand and killed him with his own spear. 24These things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada and won a name beside the three mighty men. 25He was renowned among the thirty, but he did not attain to the three. And David set him over his bodyguard. 26The mighty men were rAsahel the brother of Joab, Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem, 27Shammoth of Harod, ▼
▼Compare 2 Samuel 23:25; Hebrew the Harorite
Helez the Pelonite, 28Ira the son of Ikkesh of Tekoa, Abiezer of Anathoth, 29Sibbecai the Hushathite, Ilai the Ahohite, 30Maharai of Netophah, Heled the son of Baanah of Netophah, 31Ithai the son of Ribai of Gibeah of the people of Benjamin, Benaiah of Pirathon, 32Hurai of the brooks of Gaash, Abiel the Arbathite, 33Azmaveth of Baharum, Eliahba the Shaalbonite, 34Hashem ▼▼Compare Septuagint and 2 Samuel 23:32; Hebrew the sons of Hashem
the Gizonite, Jonathan the son of Shagee the Hararite, 35Ahiam the son of Sachar the Hararite, Eliphal the son of Ur, 36Hepher the Mecherathite, Ahijah the Pelonite, 37Hezro of Carmel, Naarai the son of Ezbai, 38Joel the brother of Nathan, Mibhar the son of uHagri, 39Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai of Beeroth, the armor-bearer of Joab the son of Zeruiah, 40Ira the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite, 41Uriah the Hittite, vZabad the son of Ahlai,
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