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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1The following were the men who came to David at Ziklag while he was still banned from the presence of Saul son of Kish. They were among the warriors who helped him in battle. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2They were archers who could use either the right or left hand, both to sling stones and shoot arrows from a bow. They were Saul's relatives from Benjamin: |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Their chief was Ahiezer son of Shemaah the Gibeathite. Then there was his brother Joash; Jeziel and Pelet sons of Azmaveth; Beracah, Jehu the Anathothite; |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Ishmaiah the Gibeonite, a warrior among the Thirty and a leader over the Thirty; Jeremiah, Jahaziel, Johanan, Jozabad the Gederathite; |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Eluzai, Jerimoth, Bealiah, Shemariah, Shephatiah the Haruphite; |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Elkanah, Isshiah, Azarel, Joezer, and Jashobeam, the Korahites; |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7and Joelah and Zebadiah, the sons of Jeroham from Gedor. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Some Gadites defected to David at his stronghold in the desert. They were valiant warriors, trained for battle, expert with shield and spear. Their faces were like the faces of lions, and they were as swift as gazelles on the mountains. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Ezer was the chief, Obadiah second, Eliab third, |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Mishmannah fourth, Jeremiah fifth, |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Attai sixth, Eliel seventh, |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Johanan eighth, Elzabad ninth, |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Jeremiah tenth, and Machbannai eleventh. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14These Gadites were army commanders; the least of them was a match for a hundred, and the greatest of them for a thousand. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15These are the men who crossed the Jordan in the first month when it was overflowing all its banks, and put to flight all those in the valleys to the east and to the west. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Other Benjaminites and men from Judah also went to David at the stronghold. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17David went out to meet them and said to them, "If you have come in peace to help me, my heart will be united with you, but if you have come to betray me to my enemies even though my hands have done no wrong, may the God of our ancestors look on it and judge." |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Then the Spirit enveloped Amasai, chief of the Thirty, and he said: We are yours, David, we are with you, son of Jesse! Peace, peace to you, and peace to him who helps you, for your God helps you. So David received them and made them leaders of his troops. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Some Manassites defected to David when he went with the Philistines to fight against Saul. However, they did not help the Philistines because the Philistine rulers sent David away after a discussion. They said, "It will be our heads if he defects to his master Saul." |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20When David went to Ziklag, some men from Manasseh defected to him: Adnah, Jozabad, Jediael, Michael, Jozabad, Elihu, and Zillethai, chiefs of thousands in Manasseh. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21They helped David against the raiders, for they were all valiant warriors and commanders in the army. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22At that time, men came day after day to help David until there was a great army, like an army of God. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23The numbers of the armed troops who came to David at Hebron to turn Saul's kingdom over to him, according to the LORD's word, were as follows: |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24From the Judahites: 6,800 armed troops bearing shields and spears. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25From the Simeonites: 7,100 valiant warriors ready for war. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26From the Levites: 4,600 |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27in addition to Jehoiada, leader of the house of Aaron, with 3,700 men; |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28and Zadok, a young valiant warrior, with 22 commanders from his father's family. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29From the Benjaminites, the relatives of Saul: 3,000 (up to that time the majority of the Benjaminites maintained their allegiance to the house of Saul). |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30From the Ephraimites: 20,800 valiant warriors who were famous men in their ancestral families. |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31From half the tribe of Manasseh: 18,000 designated by name to come and make David king. |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32From the Issacharites, who understood the times and knew what Israel should do: 200 chiefs with all their relatives under their command. |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33From Zebulun: 50,000 who could serve in the army, trained for battle with all kinds of weapons of war, with one purpose to help David. |
| 34[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 34From Naphtali: 1,000 commanders accompanied by 37,000 men with shield and spear. |
| 35[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 35From the Danites: 28,600 trained for battle. |
| 36[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 36From Asher: 40,000 who could serve in the army, trained for battle. |
| 37[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 37From across the Jordan--from the Reubenites, Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh: 120,000 men equipped with all the military weapons of war. |
| 38[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 38All these warriors, lined up in battle formation, came to Hebron wholeheartedly determined to make David king over all Israel. All the rest of Israel was also of one mind to make David king. |
| 39[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 39They spent three days there eating and drinking with David, for their relatives had provided for them. |
| 40[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 40In addition, their neighbors from as far away as Issachar, Zebulun, and Naphtali came and brought food on donkeys, camels, mules, and oxen--abundant provisions of flour, fig cakes, raisins, wine and oil, herds, and flocks. Indeed, there was joy in Israel. |
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