[[1 Chronicles 10|<< 1 Chronicles 10]] | [[1 Chronicles|1 Chronicles]] | [[1 Chronicles 12|1 Chronicles 12 >>]] ### 1 Chronicles 11 1 THEN all Israel gathered themselves to David unto Hebron, saying, Behold, we _are_ thy bone and thy flesh. ^1 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. ^2 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. ^3 4 ¶ And David and all Israel went to Jerusalem, which _is_ Jebus; where the Jebusites _were_, the inhabitants of the land. ^4 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. ^5 6 And David said, Whosoever smites the Jebusites first shall be chief and captain. So Joab the son of Zeruiah went first up, and was chief. ^6 7 And David dwelt in the castle; therefore they called it the city of David. ^7 8 And he built the city round about, even from Millo round about: and Joab repaired the rest of the city. ^8 9 So David waxed greater and greater: for the LORD of hosts _was_ with him. ^9 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. ^10 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. ^11 12 And after him _was_ Eleazar the son of Dodo, the Ahohite, who _was_ _one_ of the three mighties. ^12 13 He was with David at Pas-dammim, 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. ^13 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. ^14 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. ^15 16 And David _was_ then in the hold, and the Philistines' garrison _was_ then at Beth-lehem. ^16 17 And David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me drink of the water of the well of Beth-lehem, that _is_ at the gate! ^17 18 And the three broke through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Beth-lehem, 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, ^18 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. ^19 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. ^20 21 Of the three, he was more honorable than the two; for he was their captain: howbeit he attained not to the _first_ three. ^21 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. ^22 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. ^23 24 These _things_ did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and had the name among the three mighties. ^24 25 Behold, he was honorable among the thirty, but attained not to the _first_ three: and David set him over his guard. ^25 26 ¶ Also the valiant men of the armies _were_, Asahel the brother of Joab, Elhanan the son of Dodo of Beth-lehem, ^26 27 Shammoth the Harorite, Helez the Pelonite, ^27 28 Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, Abi-ezer the Antothite, ^28 29 Sibbecai the Hushathite, Ilai the Ahohite, ^29 30 Maharai the Netophathite, Heled the son of Baanah the Netophathite, ^30 31 Ithai the son of Ribai of Gibeah, _that_ _pertained_ to the children of Benjamin, Benaiah the Pirathonite, ^31 32 Hurai of the brooks of Gaash, Abiel the Arbathite, ^32 33 Azmaveth the Baharumite, Eliahba the Shaalbonite, ^33 34 The sons of Hashem the Gizonite, Jonathan the son of Shage the Hararite, ^34 35 Ahiam the son of Sacar the Hararite, Eliphal the son of Ur, ^35 36 Hepher the Mecherathite, Ahijah the Pelonite, ^36 37 Hezro the Carmelite, Naarai the son of Ezbai, ^37 38 Joel the brother of Nathan, Mibhar the son of Haggeri, ^38 39 Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Berothite, the armorbearer of Joab the son of Zeruiah, ^39 40 Ira the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite, ^40 41 Uriah the Hittite, Zabad the son of Ahlai, ^41 42 Adina the son of Shiza the Reubenite, a captain of the Reubenites, and thirty with him, ^42 43 Hanan the son of Maachah, and Joshaphat the Mithnite, ^43 44 Uzzia the Ashterathite, Shama and Jehiel the sons of Hothan the Aroerite, ^44 45 Jediael the son of Shimri, and Joha his brother, the Tizite, ^45 46 Eliel the Mahavite, and Jeribai, and Joshaviah, the sons of Elnaam, and Ithmah the Moabite, ^46 47 Eliel, and Obed, and Jasiel the Mesobaite. ^47