1 Chronicles 12:8

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

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 Beth-lehem.
  • 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 En-gedi.
  • 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.

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  • 1 Chr 12:1-4
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    1Now 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.

    2They 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
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    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
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    9Ezer the first, Obadiah the second, Eliab the third,

  • 1 Chr 12:20-21
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    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
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    7And Joelah, and Zebadiah, the sons of Jeroham of Gedor.

  • Num 1:24-25
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    24Of the children of Gad, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the mber of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;

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

  • 1 Chr 12:14-17
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    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
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    23And 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
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    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
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    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
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    18The 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
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    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
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    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.

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  • 1 Sam 25:13
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    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
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    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.

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

  • 1 Chr 12:30
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    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
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  • 1 Chr 11:10
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  • Num 2:14
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    14Then the tribe of Gad: and the captain of the sons of Gad shall be Eliasaph the son of Reuel.

  • 1 Chr 5:24
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    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
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    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
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    17And of Benjamin; Eliada a mighty man of valour, and with him armed men with bow and shield two hundred thousand.

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

  • 1 Sam 17:23
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