Then all Israel gathered themselves to David unto Hebron, saying, Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh. 1Ch 12:23-401Ki 2:112Sa 15:102Sa 5:1-16Deu 17:15Gen 29:14Jdg 9:22Sa 19:12-13 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. 1 2 2Sa 5:2Jhn 10:4Psa 78:711Sa 16:131Sa 18:132Sa 7:7Mat 2:61Ki 14:7 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 1Sa 16:11Sa 16:12-132Sa 2:42Sa 5:31Sa 15:281Sa 16:31Sa 28:171Sa 11:15
¶ And David and all Israel went to Jerusalem, which is Jebus; where the Jebusites were, the inhabitants of the land. Jdg 1:21Jos 15:63Jos 15:81Ch 11:5Gen 15:212Sa 5:6-10Exo 3:17Gen 10:16 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. Psa 132:131Ch 11:71Ki 8:11Sa 17:261Sa 17:361Sa 17:9-102Ch 5:22Sa 5:9 And David said, Whosoever smiteth the Jebusites first shall be chief and captain. So Joab the son of Zeruiah went first up, and was chief. 4 2Sa 8:161Sa 17:252Sa 2:182Sa 20:232Sa 3:27Jos 15:16-17 And David dwelt in the castle; therefore they called it the city of David. 5 2Sa 5:71Ch 11:5Psa 2:6 And he built the city round about, even from Millo round about: and Joab repaired the rest of the city. 6 1Ki 11:271Ki 9:152Ki 12:20Jdg 9:20Jdg 9:6Neh 4:2 So David waxed greater and greater: for the LORD of hosts was with him. 7 2Sa 3:1Isa 41:102Sa 5:10Isa 41:14Rom 8:311Ch 9:20Est 9:4Isa 8:9-10
¶ 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. 8 1Ch 11:32Sa 23:8-391Ch 12:381Sa 16:11Sa 16:12-142Sa 3:17-182Sa 3:21 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. 9 2Sa 23:81Ch 12:181Ch 27:2 And after him was Eleazar the son of Dodo, the Ahohite, who was one of the three mighties. 1Ch 27:41Ch 11:191Ch 11:211Ch 8:42Sa 23:17-192Sa 23:232Sa 23:9 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. 10 1Sa 17:12Sa 23:11-12 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. 11 12 Psa 144:10Pro 21:311Sa 14:231Sa 19:52Ki 5:12Sa 23:10Psa 18:50
¶ 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. 13 1Ch 14:92Sa 5:18Isa 17:51Sa 22:12Sa 23:13-392Sa 5:22Jos 12:15Jos 15:8 And David was then in the hold, and the Philistines’ garrison was then at Beth-lehem. 1Sa 10:51Sa 13:231Sa 13:41Sa 22:11Sa 23:25Psa 142:1 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! 2Sa 23:15-16Isa 12:3Jhn 4:10Jhn 4:14Psa 63:1Num 11:4-5Psa 143:6Psa 42:1-2 And the three brake 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, Act 21:131Sa 19:51Sa 7:62Co 5:14-15Act 20:24Sng 8:6 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. 14 2Sa 23:17Psa 72:141Co 15:301Ki 21:31Sa 19:5Jdg 5:18Jdg 9:17Jhn 6:55
¶ 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. 1Sa 26:61Ch 2:162Sa 18:22Sa 2:182Sa 20:62Sa 21:172Sa 23:18-392Sa 3:30 Of the three, he was more honourable than the two; for he was their captain: howbeit he attained not to the first three. 1Co 15:41Mat 13:8 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. 15 2Sa 23:20-232Sa 8:18Jos 15:211Ch 12:81Ch 27:5-61Ki 1:381Ki 1:81Ki 2:30 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. 16 1Sa 17:71Ch 20:51Sa 17:41Sa 17:51Deu 3:11 These things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and had the name among the three mighties. Behold, he was honourable among the thirty, but attained not to the first three: and David set him over his guard. 2Sa 20:23
¶ Also the valiant men of the armies were, Asahel the brother of Joab, Elhanan the son of Dodo of Beth-lehem, 1Ch 27:72Sa 2:18-232Sa 21:192Sa 23:242Sa 3:30 Shammoth the Harorite, Helez the Pelonite, 17 19 18 2Sa 23:25-26 Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, Abi-ezer the Antothite, 1Ch 27:121Ch 27:92Sa 23:27 Sibbecai the Hushathite, Ilai the Ahohite, 20 21 1Ch 27:112Sa 23:27-28 Maharai the Netophathite, Heled the son of Baanah the Netophathite, 22 1Ch 27:131Ch 27:152Sa 23:29 Ithai the son of Ribai of Gibeah, that pertained to the children of Benjamin, Benaiah the Pirathonite, 2Sa 23:29 Hurai of the brooks of Gaash, Abiel the Arbathite, 23 24 2Sa 23:30-31 Azmaveth the Baharumite, Eliahba the Shaalbonite, The sons of Hashem the Gizonite, Jonathan the son of Shage the Hararite, 25 2Sa 23:32-33 Ahiam the son of Sacar the Hararite, Eliphal the son of Ur, 26 28 27 2Sa 23:33-34 Hepher the Mecherathite, Ahijah the Pelonite, Hezro the Carmelite, Naarai the son of Ezbai, 29 30 2Sa 23:35 Joel the brother of Nathan, Mibhar the son of Haggeri, 31 2Sa 23:36 Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Berothite, the armourbearer of Joab the son of Zeruiah, Ira the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite, 2Sa 20:26 Uriah the Hittite, Zabad the son of Ahlai, 2Sa 11:6-272Sa 23:391Ch 2:36 Adina the son of Shiza the Reubenite, a captain of the Reubenites, and thirty with him, Hanan the son of Maachah, and Joshaphat the Mithnite, Uzzia the Ashterathite, Shama and Jehiel the sons of Hothan the Aroerite, Jediael the son of Shimri, and Joha his brother, the Tizite, 32 Eliel the Mahavite, and Jeribai, and Joshaviah, the sons of Elnaam, and Ithmah the Moabite, Eliel, and Obed, and Jasiel the Mesobaite.