1 Chronicles 11
1THEN all Israel came to David to Chebron, and said, Behold we are thy bones and thy flesh.
2Even in time past when Saul was king, it was thou who didst lead us and bring in Israel, and the Lord said to thee, Thou shalt feed My people Israel, and thou shalt be ruler over Israel.
3So when all the elders were come to the king at Chebron, king David made a covenant with them at Chebron before the Lord, and they anointed him to be king over Israel, according to the word of the Lord by the ministry of Samuel.
4When the king and his men went to Jerusalem, which is Jebus, the inhabitants of the land, the Jebusites who were there said to David,
5Thou shalt not come here, yet he took the fortress Sion which is now the city of David.
6He indeed said, Whoever first smiteth the Jebusites, he shall be made chief and general of the army. Upon which Joab son of Saruia went up first and was made chief.
7And David made his abode in the fortress, for which cause he called it the city of David,
8and built the city around it.
9And David proceeded on advancing in greatness, for the Lord Almighty was with him.
10Now these are the chiefs of the mighty men who were with David, who with him prevailed with all Israel during his reign, that he should be, according to the word of the Lord, king over Israel.
11And this is the number of David’s worthies. Jesebada son of Achaman, the first of thirty. He drew his sword once against three hundred men who were slain at one time.
12And after him Eleazar son of Dodai the Achochite, who was one of the three worthies.
13He was with David at Phasodamin when the Philistines were assembled there for battle. And there was a portion of a field full of barley. And when the people fled before the Philistines,
14he stood in the midst of the piece of ground and maintained it and smote the Philistines, and the Lord gave a great victory.
15When three of the thirty chiefs went down to the rock to David, to the cave Odollam, at the time when the Philistines were encamped in the giant’s vale,
16and David was in the fortress and there was a garrison of the Philistines at Bethlehem,
17David longed and said, O that some one would give me some water to drink out of the well of Bethlehem which is by the gate!
18Upon this the three broke through the camp of the Philistines, and having drawn some water out of the well of Bethlehem by the gate, they took it and came to David. But David would not drink it, but poured it out as a libation to the Lord, and said,
19God forbid that I should do such a thing! Shall I drink the blood of these men who have jeopardized their lives? Because they had brought it at the hazard of their lives he would not drink it. These things were done by these three worthies.
20And Abisa brother of Joab, who was chief of three—he drew his sword against three hundred who were slain at one time.
21He was renowned among the three. Of the three he was higher in rank than two and was their chief, but did not come up to the [former] three.
22And Banaias son of Jodae, son of a worthy, whose works for Kabasael were many—he smote the two Ariels of Moab. He went down also and smote a lion in the pit in a snowy day.
23He smote also the Egyptian, a noted man of five cubits high. Though the Egyptian had in his hand a spear like a weaver’s beam, Banaias went against him with a staff, and wresting the spear out of the hand of the Egyptian, he slew him with his own spear.
24These things Banaias son of Jodae did, and had a name among the three worthies.
25He was higher in rank than the thirty but did not come up to the first three, and David set him over his family.
26And the commanders of the armies were Asael a brother of Joab; Eleanan son of Dodoe of Bethlehem;
27Samaoth the Arorite; Chelles the Phelonite;
28Or, a son of Ekkis the Thekoite; Abiezer the Anathothite;
29Sobochae the Ousathite; Eli the Achonite;
30Marai the Netophathite; Chthaod son of Nooza the Netophathite;
31Airi son of Rebie of Mount Benjamin; Banaias the Phrathonite;
32Ouri of Nachaligaas; Abiel the Garabaithite;
33Azbon the Baromite; Eliaba the Salabonite;
34Son Asam the Gisonite; Jonathan son of Sola the Ararite;
35Achim son of Achar the Ararite; Elphat son of Thurophar the Mechorathrite;
36Achia the Phelonite;
37Esere the Charmadite; Naarai son of Azobai,
38Joel son of Nathan; Mebaal son of Agari;
39Sele the Ammonite; Nachor the Berothite the armour-bearer of the son of Saruia;
40Ira the Jethrite; Gareb the Jethrite;
41Uria the Chettite; Zabet son of Achaia;
42Adina son of Saiza the chief of Reuben, yet there were thirty above him;
43Anan son of Moocha and Josaphat the Matthanite;
44Ozia the Astarothite; Samatha and Jeil sons of Chotham the Ararite;
45Jediel son of Semeri, and Josae his brother the Thosite;
46Eliel the Maoite; Jaribi and Josia his son; Ellaam and Jethama the Moabite;
47Daliel and Obeth, and Jessiel the Messobiate.