1 Chronicles 12:8

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And some of the Gadites, siding with David, went to his strong place in the waste land, great and strong men, trained for war, expert in the use of arms, whose faces were like the faces of lions, and they were quick-footed like roes on the mountains;

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  • 2 Sam 2:18 : 18 There were three sons of Zeruiah there, Joab and Abishai and Asahel: and Asahel was as quick-footed as a roe of the fields.
  • 2 Sam 17:10 : 10 Then even the strongest, whose heart is like the heart of a lion, will become like water; for all Israel is conscious that your father is a man of war, and those who are with him are strong and without fear.
  • 2 Sam 23:20 : 20 And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, a fighting man of Kabzeel, had done great acts; he put to death the two sons of Ariel of Moab: he went down into a hole and put a lion to death in time of snow:
  • 1 Chr 11:16 : 16 At that time David had taken cover in the strong place, and an armed force of the Philistines was in Beth-lehem.
  • 1 Chr 11:22 : 22 Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, a fighting-man of Kabzeel, had done great acts; he put to death two young lions going into their secret place; and he went down into a hole and put a lion to death in time of snow.
  • 1 Chr 12:16 : 16 And some of the children of Benjamin and Judah came to David in his strong place.
  • 2 Chr 25:5 : 5 Then Amaziah got all Judah together and put them in order by their families, even all Judah and Benjamin, under captains of thousands and captains of hundreds: and he had those of twenty years old and over numbered, and they came to three hundred thousand of the best fighting-men, trained for war and in the use of the spear and the body-cover.
  • Prov 6:5 : 5 Make yourself free, like the roe from the hand of the archer, and the bird from him who puts a net for her.
  • Prov 28:1 : 1 The evil man goes running away when no man is after him, but the upright are without fear, like the lion.
  • Song 8:14 : 14 Come quickly, my loved one, and be like a roe on the mountains of spice.
  • Jer 46:9 : 9 Go up, you horses; go rushing on, you carriages of war; go out, you men of war: Cush and Put, gripping the body-cover, and the Ludim, with bent bows.
  • 1 Sam 23:14 : 14 And David kept in the waste land, in safe places, waiting in the hill-country in the waste land of Ziph. And Saul was searching for him every day, but God did not give him up into his hands.
  • 1 Sam 24:22 : 22 So give me your oath by the Lord, that you will not put an end to my seed after me or let my name be cut off from my father's family.
  • 2 Sam 1:23 : 23 Saul and Jonathan were loved and pleasing; in their lives and in their death they were not parted; they went more quickly than eagles, they were stronger than lions.

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  • 1 Chr 12:1-4
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    1Now these are the men who came to David at Ziklag, while he was still shut up, because of Saul, the son of Kish; they were among the strong men, his helpers in war.

    2They were armed with bows, and were able to send stones, and arrows from the bow, with right hand or left: they were Saul's brothers, of Benjamin.

    3Ahiezer was their chief, then Joash, the sons of Shemaah the Gibeathite; and Jeziel and Pelet, the sons of Azmaveth; and Beracah and Jehu the Anathothite;

    4And Ishmaiah the Gibeonite, a great man among the thirty, and their chief; and Jeremiah and Jehaziel and Johanan and Jozabad the Gederathite;

  • Deut 33:20
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    20Of Gad he said, A blessing be on him who makes wide the limits of Gad: he takes his rest like a she-lion, taking for himself the arm and the crown of the head.

  • 1 Chr 12:9
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    9Ezer their chief, Obadiah the second, Eliab the third,

  • 1 Chr 12:20-21
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    73%

    20Then when he went back to Ziklag, there came over to him, of the men of Manasseh, Adnah and Jozabad and Jediael and Michael and Jozabad and Elihu and Zillethai, captains of thousands from the armies of Manasseh.

    21And they gave David help against the armed bands, for they were all great men of war, and captains in the army.

  • 1 Chr 12:7
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    7And Joelah and Zebadiah, the sons of Jeroham of Gedor.

  • Num 1:24-25
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    71%

    24The generations of the sons of Gad were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over who was able to go to war;

    25Forty-five thousand, six hundred and fifty of the tribe of Gad were numbered.

  • 1 Chr 12:14-17
    4 verses
    69%

    14These Gadites were captains of the army; the least of them was captain over a hundred men, and the greatest over a thousand.

    15It was they who went over Jordan in the first month, when the river was overflowing, and put to flight all the people of the valleys, to the east and to the west.

    16And some of the children of Benjamin and Judah came to David in his strong place.

    17And David went out to them, and said to them, If you have come in peace to give me help, my heart will be united with yours; but if you have come to give me up to those who would take my life, though my hands are clean from wrongdoing, then may the God of our fathers see it and give you punishment.

  • 1 Chr 12:23-24
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    69%

    23These are the numbers of the chiefs of the armed men, ready for war, who came to David at Hebron, to give the kingdom of Saul into his hands, as the Lord had said.

    24There were six thousand, eight hundred spearmen of the children of Judah, armed for war;

  • 2 Sam 17:10
    69%

    10Then even the strongest, whose heart is like the heart of a lion, will become like water; for all Israel is conscious that your father is a man of war, and those who are with him are strong and without fear.

  • 1 Chr 26:32
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    32And his brothers were two thousand, seven hundred able men, heads of families, whom King David made overseers over the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh, in everything to do with God, and for the king's business.

  • 1 Chr 5:18
    69%

    18There were forty-four thousand, seven hundred and sixty of the sons of Reuben and of the Gadites and of the half-tribe of Manasseh, all strong men, expert in the use of the body-cover, the sword, and the bow, and in the art of war, all able to take up arms.

  • 1 Sam 22:5
    69%

    5And the prophet Gad said to David, Do not go on living in this place but go into the land of Judah. Then David went away and came to the woodland of Hereth.

  • 1 Chr 12:37-38
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    69%

    37From the other side of Jordan, there were a hundred and twenty thousand of the Reubenites and the Gadites and the men of the half-tribe of Manasseh, armed with every sort of instrument of war.

    38All these men of war, expert in ordering the fight, came to Hebron with the full purpose of making David king over all Israel; and all the rest of Israel were united in their desire to make David king.

  • 1 Sam 25:13
    68%

    13And David said to his men, Put on your swords, every one of you. And every man put on his sword; and David did the same; and about four hundred men went up with David, and two hundred kept watch over their goods.

  • 2 Chr 14:8
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    8And Asa had an army of three hundred thousand men of Judah armed with body-covers and spears, and two hundred and eighty thousand of Benjamin armed with body-covers and bows; all these were men of war.

  • 1 Chr 5:11
    68%

    11And the sons of Gad were living opposite to them, in the land of Bashan as far as Salecah:

  • 1 Chr 12:30
    68%

    30And of the children of Ephraim, twenty thousand, eight hundred great men of war, men of great name in their families.

  • 1 Chr 7:11
    68%

    11All these were the sons of Jediael, by the heads of their families, seventeen thousand, two hundred men of war, able to go out with the army for war.

  • 1 Chr 11:10
    67%

    10Now these are the chief of David's men of war who were his strong supporters in the kingdom, and, with all Israel, made him king, as the Lord had said about Israel.

  • Num 2:14
    67%

    14Then the tribe of Gad, with Eliasaph, son of Reuel, as their chief.

  • 1 Chr 5:24
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    24And these were the heads of their families: Epher and Ishi and Eliel and Azriel and Jeremiah and Hodaviah and Jahdiel, men of war, of great name, heads of families.

  • 1 Chr 20:8
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    8These were of the offspring of the Rephaim in Gath; they came to their death by the hands of David and his servants.

  • 2 Chr 17:17-18
    2 verses
    67%

    17And the captains of Benjamin: Eliada, a great man of war, and with him two hundred thousand armed with bows and body-covers;

    18And after him Jehozabad, and with him a hundred and eighty thousand trained for war.

  • 1 Chr 12:35
    67%

    35And of the Danites, twenty-eight thousand, six hundred, expert in ordering the fight.

  • 1 Sam 17:23
    67%

    23And while he was talking to them, the fighter, the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, came out from the Philistines' lines and said the same words, in David's hearing.

  • 2 Sam 23:9
    66%

    9After him was Eleazar, the son of Dodai the Ahohite, one of the three great fighters, who was with David in Pas-dammim when the Philistines came together there for the fight; and when the men of Israel had gone in flight,

  • 2 Sam 8:12
    66%

    12The nations of Edom and Moab, and the children of Ammon and the Philistines and the Amalekites and the goods he had taken from Hadadezer, the son of Rehob, king of Zobah.

  • Num 26:18
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    18These are the families of the sons of Gad as they were numbered, forty thousand, five hundred.

  • 1 Sam 24:2
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    2Now when Saul came back from fighting the Philistines, news was given him that David was in the waste land of En-gedi.

  • 1 Sam 30:21
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    21And David came to the two hundred men, who because of weariness had not gone with him, but were waiting at the stream Besor: and they went out, meeting David and the people who were with him; and when they came near them, they said, How are you?

  • 1 Chr 19:8
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    8And David, hearing of it, sent Joab with all the army of fighting-men.

  • Gen 46:16
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    16And the sons of Gad: Ziphion and Haggi, Shuni and Ezbon, Eri and Arodi and Areli;

  • 1 Sam 17:34
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    34And David said to Saul, Your servant has been keeper of his father's sheep; and if a lion or a bear came and took a lamb from the flock,

  • Num 26:15
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    15The sons of Gad by their families: of Zephon, the family of the Zephonites: of Haggi, the family of the Haggites: of Shuni, the family of the Shunites:

  • 2 Sam 10:8
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    8And the children of Ammon came out and put their forces in position at the way into the town: and the Aramaeans of Zobah and of Rehob, with the men of Tob and Maacah, were by themselves in the field.

  • Judg 8:21
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    21Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, Up! Put an end to us yourself: for you have a man's strength. Then Gideon got up and put Zebah and Zalmunna to death and took the ornaments which were on their camels' necks.

  • 1 Chr 12:28
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    28And Zadok, a young man, great and strong in war, with twenty-two captains from his father's people.