1 Chronicles 11 — WBMS

11Verse 1Therefore all Israel was gathered to David in Hebron, and said, We be thy bone and thy flesh;^{Verse 2}also yesterday and the third day ago, when Saul reigned yet upon Israel, thou it was that leddest out and leddest in Israel; for the Lord thy God said to thee, Thou shalt feed my people Israel, and thou shalt be prince upon it.^{Verse 3}Therefore all the greater men in birth of Israel came to the king in Hebron; and David made with them a bond of peace before the Lord, and they anointed him king upon Israel, by the word of the Lord, which he spake in the hand of Samuel.^{Verse 4}Therefore David went, and all Israel, into Jerusalem; this Jerusalem is Jebus, where Jebusites, inhabiters of the land, were.^{Verse 5}And they that dwelled at Jebus said to David, Thou shalt not enter hither. Forsooth David took the high tower of Zion, which is the city of David;^{Verse 6}and he said, Each man that slayeth the first Jebusite, shall be prince and duke. Therefore Joab, the son of Zeruiah, went up first, and was made prince.^{Verse 7}And David dwelled in the high tower, and therefore it was called the city of David;^{Verse 8}and he builded the city in compass, from Millo till to the compass about; and Joab builded the tother part of the city.^{Verse 9}And David profited going and waxing, and the Lord of hosts was with him.^{Verse 10}These be the princes of the strong men of David, that helped him, that he should be king upon all Israel, by the word of the Lord which he spake to Israel.^{Verse 11}And this is the number of the strong men of David; Jashobeam, the son of Hachmoni, was prince among thirty; this raised up his shaft, either spear, upon three hundred, and wounded these men in one time.^{Verse 12}And after him was Eleazar, the son of his father’s brother, that was of Ahohites, the which Eleazar was among [the] three mighty men.^{Verse 13}This was with David in Pasdam-mim, when Philistines were gathered to one place into battle; and a field of that country was full of barley, and the people fled from the face of Philistines.^{Verse 14}This Eleazar stood in the midst of the field, and defended it; and when he had slain the Philistines, the Lord gave great health to his people⁺.^{Verse 15}Soothly three of [the] thirty princes went down to the stone, wherein David was, to the den of Adullam, when the Philistines setted tents in the valley of Rephaim.^{Verse 16}And David was in a stronghold, and the station, that is, the host gather-ed, of Philistines was in Bethlehem.^{Verse 17}Therefore David desired water, and said, I would, that some man gave to me water of the cistern of Bethlehem, which is in the gate.^{Verse 18}Therefore these three went through the middle of the castles [or tents], or of the hosts, of [the] Philistines, and drew water of the cistern of Bethle-hem, that was in the gate, and they brought to David, that he should drink; and David would not drink it, but rather he offered it to the Lord,^{Verse 19}and said, Far be it, that I do this thing in the sight of my God, and that I drink the blood of these men, for in the peril of their lives they brought water to me; and for this cause he would not drink. [The] Three strongest men did these things.^{Verse 20}Also Abishai, the brother of Joab, he was the prince of the second three men, and he raised up his spear against three hundred, and wounded those men; and he was most named among these three,^{Verse 21}[and] among the second three, he was noble, and the prince of them; nevertheless he came not to the first three.^{Verse 22}Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, the strongest man of Kabzeel, that did many works; he killed two strong men of Moab; and he went down, and killed a lion in the midst of a cistern, in the time of snow;^{Verse 23}and he killed a man of Egypt, whose stature was of five cubits, and he had a spear as the beam of webs or weaver’s; therefore Benaiah went down to him with a rod, and ravished the spear, which he held in his hand, and killed him with his own spear.^{Verse 24}Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, did these things, he that was most named among the second three strong men,^{Verse 25}and he was the first among [the] thirty; nevertheless he came not to the first three; and David set him at his ear for a good counsellor.^{Verse 26}Forsooth the strongest men in the host were Asahel, the brother of Joab, and Elhanan, the son of his father’s brother of Bethlehem,^{Verse 27}Shammoth the Harorite, Helez the Pelonite,^{Verse 28}Ira, the son of Ikkesh of Tekoa, Abiezer of Anathoth,^{Verse 29}Sibbecai the Hushathite, Ilai the Ahohite,^{Verse 30}Maharai the Netophathite, Heled, the son of Baanah the Netophathite,^{Verse 31}Ithai, the son of Ribai of Gibeah, of the sons of Benjamin; Benaiah the Pirathonite,^{Verse 32}men of the strand [or stream of] Gaash, Abiel the Arbathite,^{Verse 33}Azmaveth the Baharumite, Eliahba the Shaalbonite,^{Verse 34}the sons of Hashem the Gizonite, Jonathan, the son of Shage the Hararite,^{Verse 35}Ahiam, the son of Sacar the Harar-ite, Eliphal, the son of [Ur],^{Verse 36}Hepher the Mecherathite, Ahijah the Pelonite,^{Verse 37}Hezro the Carmelite, Naarai, the son of Ezbai,^{Verse 38}Joel, the brother of Nathan, Mibhar, the son of Haggeri,^{Verse 39}Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Berothite, the squire of Joab, son of Zeruiah,^{Verse 40}Ira the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite,^{Verse 41}Uriah the Hittite, Zabad, the son of Ahlai,^{Verse 42}Adina, the son of Shiza the Reuben-ite, prince of Reubenites, and thirty men with him;^{Verse 43}Hanan, the son of Maachah, and Joshaphat the Mithnite,^{Verse 44}Uzzia the Ashterathite, Shama and Jehiel, the sons of Hothan the Aroerite,^{Verse 45}Jediael, the son of Shimri, and Joha, his brother, Tizite,^{Verse 46}Eliel the Mahavite, Jeribai, and Joshaviah, the sons of Elnaam, Ithmah the Moabite,^{Verse 47}Eliel, and Obed, and Jasiel of Mesobaites.