1 Chronicles 12:8

Authorized King James Version (1611)

And of the Gadites there separated themselves unto David into the hold to the wilderness men of might, [and] men of war [fit] for the battle, that could handle shield and buckler, whose faces [were like] the faces of lions, and [were] as swift as the roes upon the mountains;

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  • 2 Sam 2:18 : 18 ¶ And there were three sons of Zeruiah there, Joab, and Abishai, and Asahel: and Asahel [was as] light of foot as a wild roe.
  • 2 Sam 17:10 : 10 And he also [that is] valiant, whose heart [is] as the heart of a lion, shall utterly melt: for all Israel knoweth that thy father [is] a mighty man, and [they] which [be] with him [are] valiant men.
  • 2 Sam 23:20 : 20 And 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: he went down also and slew a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow:
  • 1 Chr 11:16 : 16 And David [was] then in the hold, and the Philistines' garrison [was] then at Bethlehem.
  • 1 Chr 11:22 : 22 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.
  • 1 Chr 12:16 : 16 And there came of the children of Benjamin and Judah to the hold unto David.
  • 2 Chr 25:5 : 5 Moreover Amaziah gathered Judah together, and made them captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, according to the houses of [their] fathers, throughout all Judah and Benjamin: and he numbered them from twenty years old and above, and found them three hundred thousand choice [men, able] to go forth to war, that could handle spear and shield.
  • Prov 6:5 : 5 Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand [of the hunter], and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.
  • Prov 28:1 : 1 ¶ The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion.
  • Song 8:14 : 14 Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices.
  • Jer 46:9 : 9 Come up, ye horses; and rage, ye chariots; and let the mighty men come forth; the Ethiopians and the Libyans, that handle the shield; and the Lydians, that handle [and] bend the bow.
  • 1 Sam 23:14 : 14 ¶ And David abode in the wilderness in strong holds, and remained in a mountain in the wilderness of Ziph. And Saul sought him every day, but God delivered him not into his hand.
  • 1 Sam 23:29 : 29 And David went up from thence, and dwelt in strong holds at Engedi.
  • 1 Sam 24:22 : 22 And David sware unto Saul. And Saul went home; but David and his men gat them up unto the hold.
  • 2 Sam 1:23 : 23 Saul and Jonathan [were] lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided: they were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Chr 12:1-4
    4 verses
    75%

    1¶ Now these [are] they that came to David to Ziklag, while he yet kept himself close because of Saul the son of Kish: and they [were] among the mighty men, helpers of the war.

    2[They were] armed with bows, and could use both the right hand and the left in [hurling] stones and [shooting] arrows out of a bow, [even] of Saul's brethren of Benjamin.

    3The chief [was] Ahiezer, then Joash, the sons of Shemaah the Gibeathite; and Jeziel, and Pelet, the sons of Azmaveth; and Berachah, and Jehu the Antothite,

    4And Ismaiah the Gibeonite, a mighty man among the thirty, and over the thirty; and Jeremiah, and Jahaziel, and Johanan, and Josabad the Gederathite,

  • Deut 33:20
    73%

    20And of Gad he said, Blessed [be] he that enlargeth Gad: he dwelleth as a lion, and teareth the arm with the crown of the head.

  • 1 Chr 12:9
    73%

    9Ezer the first, Obadiah the second, Eliab the third,

  • 1 Chr 12:20-21
    2 verses
    73%

    20As he went to Ziklag, there fell to him of Manasseh, Adnah, and Jozabad, and Jediael, and Michael, and Jozabad, and Elihu, and Zilthai, captains of the thousands that [were] of Manasseh.

    21And they helped David against the band [of the rovers]: for they [were] all mighty men of valour, and were captains in the host.

  • 1 Chr 12:7
    72%

    7And Joelah, and Zebadiah, the sons of Jeroham of Gedor.

  • Num 1:24-25
    2 verses
    71%

    24Of the children of Gad, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;

    25Those that were numbered of them, [even] of the tribe of Gad, [were] forty and five thousand six hundred and fifty.

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

    14These [were] of the sons of Gad, captains of the host: one of the least [was] over an hundred, and the greatest over a thousand.

    15These [are] they that went over Jordan in the first month, when it had overflown all his banks; and they put to flight all [them] of the valleys, [both] toward the east, and toward the west.

    16And there came of the children of Benjamin and Judah to the hold unto David.

    17And David went out to meet them, and answered and said unto them, If ye be come peaceably unto me to help me, mine heart shall be knit unto you: but if [ye be come] to betray me to mine enemies, seeing [there is] no wrong in mine hands, the God of our fathers look [thereon], and rebuke [it].

  • 1 Chr 12:23-24
    2 verses
    69%

    23¶ And these [are] the numbers of the bands [that were] ready armed to the war, [and] came to David to Hebron, to turn the kingdom of Saul to him, according to the word of the LORD.

    24The children of Judah that bare shield and spear [were] six thousand and eight hundred, ready armed to the war.

  • 2 Sam 17:10
    69%

    10And he also [that is] valiant, whose heart [is] as the heart of a lion, shall utterly melt: for all Israel knoweth that thy father [is] a mighty man, and [they] which [be] with him [are] valiant men.

  • 1 Chr 26:32
    69%

    32And his brethren, men of valour, [were] two thousand and seven hundred chief fathers, whom king David made rulers over the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh, for every matter pertaining to God, and affairs of the king.

  • 1 Chr 5:18
    69%

    18¶ The sons of Reuben, and the Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh, of valiant men, men able to bear buckler and sword, and to shoot with bow, and skilful in war, [were] four and forty thousand seven hundred and threescore, that went out to the war.

  • 1 Sam 22:5
    69%

    5And the prophet Gad said unto David, Abide not in the hold; depart, and get thee into the land of Judah. Then David departed, and came into the forest of Hareth.

  • 1 Chr 12:37-38
    2 verses
    69%

    37And on the other side of Jordan, of the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and of the half tribe of Manasseh, with all manner of instruments of war for the battle, an hundred and twenty thousand.

    38All these men of war, that could keep rank, came with a perfect heart to Hebron, to make David king over all Israel: and all the rest also of Israel [were] of one heart to make David king.

  • 1 Sam 25:13
    68%

    13And David said unto his men, Gird ye on every man his sword. And they girded on every man his sword; and David also girded on his sword: and there went up after David about four hundred men; and two hundred abode by the stuff.

  • 2 Chr 14:8
    68%

    8And Asa had an army [of men] that bare targets and spears, out of Judah three hundred thousand; and out of Benjamin, that bare shields and drew bows, two hundred and fourscore thousand: all these [were] mighty men of valour.

  • 1 Chr 5:11
    68%

    11And the children of Gad dwelt over against them, in the land of Bashan unto Salchah:

  • 1 Chr 12:30
    68%

    30And of the children of Ephraim twenty thousand and eight hundred, mighty men of valour, famous throughout the house of their fathers.

  • 1 Chr 7:11
    68%

    11All these the sons of Jediael, by the heads of their fathers, mighty men of valour, [were] seventeen thousand and two hundred [soldiers], fit to go out for war [and] battle.

  • 1 Chr 11:10
    67%

    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.

  • Num 2:14
    67%

    14Then the tribe of Gad: and the captain of the sons of Gad [shall be] Eliasaph the son of Reuel.

  • 1 Chr 5:24
    67%

    24And these [were] the heads of the house of their fathers, even Epher, and Ishi, and Eliel, and Azriel, and Jeremiah, and Hodaviah, and Jahdiel, mighty men of valour, famous men, [and] heads of the house of their fathers.

  • 1 Chr 20:8
    67%

    8These were born unto the giant in Gath; and they fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.

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

    17And of Benjamin; Eliada a mighty man of valour, and with him armed men with bow and shield two hundred thousand.

    18And next him [was] Jehozabad, and with him an hundred and fourscore thousand ready prepared for the war.

  • 1 Chr 12:35
    67%

    35And of the Danites expert in war twenty and eight thousand and six hundred.

  • 1 Sam 17:23
    67%

    23And as he talked with them, behold, there came up the champion, the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, out of the armies of the Philistines, and spake according to the same words: and David heard [them].

  • 2 Sam 23:9
    66%

    9And after him [was] Eleazar the son of Dodo the Ahohite, [one] of the three mighty men with David, when they defied the Philistines [that] were there gathered together to battle, and the men of Israel were gone away:

  • 2 Sam 8:12
    66%

    12Of Syria, and of Moab, and of the children of Ammon, and of the Philistines, and of Amalek, and of the spoil of Hadadezer, son of Rehob, king of Zobah.

  • Num 26:18
    66%

    18These [are] the families of the children of Gad according to those that were numbered of them, forty thousand and five hundred.

  • 1 Sam 24:2
    66%

    2Then Saul took three thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and went to seek David and his men upon the rocks of the wild goats.

  • 1 Sam 30:21
    66%

    21¶ And David came to the two hundred men, which were so faint that they could not follow David, whom they had made also to abide at the brook Besor: and they went forth to meet David, and to meet the people that [were] with him: and when David came near to the people, he saluted them.

  • 1 Chr 19:8
    66%

    8And when David heard [of it], he sent Joab, and all the host of the mighty men.

  • Gen 46:16
    66%

    16And the sons of Gad; Ziphion, and Haggi, Shuni, and Ezbon, Eri, and Arodi, and Areli.

  • 1 Sam 17:34
    66%

    34And David said unto Saul, Thy servant kept his father's sheep, and there came a lion, and a bear, and took a lamb out of the flock:

  • Num 26:15
    66%

    15The children of Gad after 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
    66%

    8And the children of Ammon came out, and put the battle in array at the entering in of the gate: and the Syrians of Zoba, and of Rehob, and Ishtob, and Maacah, [were] by themselves in the field.

  • Judg 8:21
    66%

    21Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, Rise thou, and fall upon us: for as the man [is, so is] his strength. And Gideon arose, and slew Zebah and Zalmunna, and took away the ornaments that [were] on their camels' necks.

  • 1 Chr 12:28
    66%

    28And Zadok, a young man mighty of valour, and of his father's house twenty and two captains.