1 Tawarikh 11 (AMP)

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1THEN [after the death of Ish-bosheth, Saul's son, who ruled over eleven tribes of Israel for two troubled years after Saul's death] all Israel gathered at Hebron and said to David, Behold, we are your bone and your flesh.

2In times past, even when Saul was king, it was you who led out and brought in Israel; and the Lord your God said to you, You shall be shepherd of My people Israel, and you shall be prince {and} leader over [them].

3So all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron, and David made a covenant with them there before the Lord, and they anointed [him] king over Israel, according to the word of the Lord through Samuel.

4And David and all Israel went to Jerusalem, that is Jebus, where the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land, were.

5Then the Jebusites said to David, You shall not come in here! But David took the stronghold of Zion, that is, the City of David.

6And David said, Whoever smites the Jebusites first shall be chief and commander. Joab son of Zeruiah [David's half sister] went up first, and so he was made chief.

7David dwelt in the stronghold; so it was called the City of David.

8He built the city from the Millo [a fortification] on around; and Joab repaired {and} revived the rest of the [old Jebusite] city.

9And David became greater and greater, for the Lord of hosts was with him.

10Now these are the chiefs of David's mighty men, who strongly supported him in his kingdom, together with all Israel, to make him king, according to the word of the Lord concerning Israel.

11And this is the number [thirty, and list] of David's mighty men: Jashobeam, a Hachmonite, the chief of the Thirty [captains]. He lifted up his spear against 300, whom he slew at one time.

12Next to him in rank was Eleazar son of Dodo the Ahohite, one of the three mighty men.

13He was with David at Pas-dammim [where David had long before slain Goliath], and there the Philistines were gathered for battle, where there was a plot of ground full of barley {or} lentils; and the men [of Israel] fled before the Philistines.

14And Eleazar [one of the Three] stood in the midst of that plot and defended it and slew the Philistines [until his hand was weary, and his hand cleaved to the sword], and the Lord saved by a great victory {and} deliverance.

15Three of the thirty chief men went down to the rock to David, into the cave of Adullam, and the army of the Philistines was encamped in the Valley of Rephaim.

16David was then in the stronghold, and the Philistines' garrison was in Bethlehem.

17And David longingly said, Oh, that someone would give me water to drink from the well of Bethlehem which 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 which was by the gate and brought it to David. But David would not drink it; he poured it out to the Lord,

19And said, My God forbid that I should do this thing. Shall I drink the blood of these men who have put their lives in jeopardy? For at the risk of their lives they brought it. So he would not drink it. These things did these three mighty men.

20Abishai the brother of Joab was chief of the Three. For he lifted up his spear against 300 and slew them, and was named among the Three.

21Of the Three [in the second rank] he was more renowned than the two, and became their captain; however, he attained not to the first three.

22Benaiah son of Jehoiada, whose father was a valiant man of Kabzeel, had done mighty deeds. He slew the two sons of Ariel of Moab. Also he went down and slew a lion in a pit in time of snow.

23He slew an Egyptian also, a man of great stature, five cubits tall. The Egyptian held a spear like a weaver's beam, and [Benaiah] went to him with a staff and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian's hand and slew him with the man's own spear.

24These things did Benaiah 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 rank of the first three. David put him over his guard {and} council.

26Also the mighty men of the armies were: Asahel the brother of Joab, Elhanan son of Dodo of Bethlehem,

27Shammoth of Harod, Helez the Pelonite,

28Ira son of Ikkesh of Tekoa, Abiezer of Anathoth,

29Sibbecai the Hushathite, Ilai the Ahohite,

30Maharai of Netophah, Heled son of Baanah of Netophah,

31Ithai son of Ribai of Gibeah of the Benjamites, Benaiah of Pirathon,

32Hurai of the brooks of Gaash, Abiel the Arbathite,

33Azmaveth of Baharum, Eliahba of Shaalbon,

34The sons of Hashem the Gizonite, Jonathan son of Shagee the Hararite,

35Ahiam son of Sacar the Hararite, Eliphal son of Ur,