1 Chronicles 12:2

KJV1611 – Modern English

They were armed with bows and could use both the right hand and the left in hurling stones and shooting arrows from a bow; they were Saul's brethren from Benjamin.

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  • Judg 3:15 : 15 But when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, the LORD raised them up a deliverer, Ehud the son of Gera, a Benjamite, a left-handed man: and by him the children of Israel sent a gift unto Eglon the king of Moab.
  • Judg 20:16 : 16 Among all this people there were seven hundred chosen men left-handed; every one could sling stones at a hair's breadth, and not miss.
  • 1 Sam 17:49 : 49 David put his hand in his bag, took a stone, slung it, and struck the Philistine in the forehead, and the stone sank into his forehead, and he fell on his face to the earth.
  • 1 Chr 12:29 : 29 Of the sons of Benjamin, the relatives of Saul, three thousand; for until that time, the most of them had maintained their allegiance to the house of Saul.

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  • 1 Chr 12:1
    80%

    1Now these are the ones who came to David at Ziklag, while he kept himself hidden because of Saul the son of Kish; and they were among the mighty men, helpers of the war.

  • Judg 20:14-17
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    79%

    14But the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of the cities to Gibeah, to go out to battle against the children of Israel.

    15And the children of Benjamin were numbered at that time out of the cities twenty-six thousand men who drew sword, besides the inhabitants of Gibeah, who numbered seven hundred chosen men.

    16Among all this people there were seven hundred chosen men left-handed; every one could sling stones at a hair's breadth, and not miss.

    17And the men of Israel, besides Benjamin, were numbered four hundred thousand men who drew sword; all these were men of war.

  • 1 Chr 12:3
    77%

    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 Anathothite,

  • 2 Sam 2:15-16
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    74%

    15Then there arose and went over by number twelve of Benjamin, belonging to Ishbosheth the son of Saul, and twelve of the servants of David.

    16And they grabbed every one his opponent by the head, and thrust his sword into his opponent's side; so they fell together: wherefore that place was called Helkathhazzurim, which is in Gibeon.

  • 2 Chr 17:17
    73%

    17And of Benjamin; Eliada a mighty man of valor, and with him two hundred thousand armed men with bows and shields.

  • 2 Sam 16:6
    71%

    6And he cast stones at David, and at all the servants of King David: and all the people and all the mighty men were on his right hand and on his left.

  • 1 Chr 12:29
    71%

    29Of the sons of Benjamin, the relatives of Saul, three thousand; for until that time, the most of them had maintained their allegiance to the house of Saul.

  • 1 Chr 12:15-16
    2 verses
    70%

    15These are the ones who crossed over Jordan in the first month, when it had overflowed all its banks; and they put to flight all those in the valleys, to the east and to the west.

    16Then some of the children of Benjamin and Judah came to David at the stronghold.

  • 1 Chr 20:7-8
    2 verses
    70%

    7When he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea, David's brother, slew him.

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

  • 2 Chr 14:8
    70%

    8And Asa had an army of men who carried shields and spears, out of Judah three hundred thousand; and out of Benjamin, those who carried shields and drew bows, two hundred and eighty thousand: all these were mighty men of valor.

  • 1 Chr 12:21
    70%

    21And they helped David against the band of raiders, for they were all mighty men of valor, and they were captains in the army.

  • 2 Sam 4:2
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    2And Saul's son had two men who were captains of bands: the name of one was Baanah, and the name of the other Rechab, the sons of Rimmon a Beerothite, of the children of Benjamin (for Beeroth also was reckoned to Benjamin).

  • 1 Sam 14:16
    69%

    16The watchmen of Saul in Gibeah of Benjamin looked, and behold, the multitude melted away, and they went here and there.

  • 1 Sam 9:1
    69%

    1Now there was a man from Benjamin, whose name was Kish, the son of Abiel, the son of Zeror, the son of Bechorath, the son of Aphiah, a Benjamite, a mighty man of power.

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

    23Now these are the numbers of the divisions that were ready for war, and came to David at Hebron to turn the kingdom of Saul to him, according to the word of the LORD.

    24The sons of Judah bearing shield and spear were six thousand and eight hundred armed for war.

  • 1 Chr 12:8
    69%

    8And of the Gadites there came to David at the stronghold in the wilderness, mighty men of valor, men of war ready for battle, who could handle shield and buckler, whose faces were like the faces of lions, and were as swift as the gazelles upon the mountains;

  • Judg 20:39
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    39And when the men of Israel retired in the battle, Benjamin began to strike and kill of the men of Israel about thirty persons; for they said, Surely they are struck down before us, as in the first battle.

  • 1 Chr 8:40
    69%

    40And the sons of Ulam were mighty men of valor, archers, and had many sons, and sons' sons, a hundred and fifty. All these are the sons of Benjamin.

  • 1 Sam 13:2
    69%

    2Saul chose three thousand men of Israel; two thousand were with Saul in Michmash and in mount Bethel, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin. The rest of the people he sent every man to his tent.

  • 2 Sam 19:17
    69%

    17And there were a thousand men of Benjamin with him, and Ziba the servant of the house of Saul, and his fifteen sons and his twenty servants with him; and they went over the Jordan before the king.

  • 2 Sam 2:12
    69%

    12And Abner the son of Ner, and the servants of Ishbosheth the son of Saul, went out from Mahanaim to Gibeon.

  • 1 Sam 13:22
    68%

    22So it came to pass on the day of battle, that there was neither sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the people that were with Saul and Jonathan; but they were found with Saul and Jonathan his son.

  • 2 Sam 2:25
    68%

    25And the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together behind Abner, and became one group, and stood on the top of a hill.

  • 1 Sam 14:21
    68%

    21Moreover, the Hebrews who had been with the Philistines before that time, who went up with them into the camp, also turned to be with the Israelites who were with Saul and Jonathan.

  • 2 Sam 21:22
    68%

    22These four were born to the giant in Gath and fell by the hand of David and by the hand of his servants.

  • 1 Chr 26:32
    68%

    32And his brothers, men of valor, were two thousand 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 10:3
    68%

    3The battle pressed hard against Saul, and the archers hit him, and he was wounded by the archers.

  • Judg 20:25
    68%

    25And Benjamin went forth against them out of Gibeah the second day, and destroyed down to the ground of the children of Israel again eighteen thousand men; all these drew the sword.

  • 1 Sam 25:13
    68%

    13And David said to his men, Each of you gird on his sword. And each one girded on his sword, and David also girded on his sword; and about four hundred men went up after David, while two hundred stayed with the supplies.

  • 1 Sam 22:7
    68%

    7Then Saul said to his servants that stood about him, Hear now, you Benjamites; will the son of Jesse give every one of you fields and vineyards, and make you all captains of thousands and captains of hundreds;

  • 1 Sam 13:16
    68%

    16And Saul, and Jonathan his son, and the people that were present with them, stayed in Gibeah of Benjamin; but the Philistines encamped in Michmash.

  • 2 Chr 11:12
    68%

    12In every city he put shields and spears, and made them exceedingly strong, having Judah and Benjamin on his side.

  • Num 1:36
    68%

    36From the children of Benjamin, by their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and above, all who were able to go to war;

  • 1 Sam 17:19
    67%

    19Now Saul, and they, and all the men of Israel were in the Valley of Elah, fighting with the Philistines.

  • Judg 20:32
    67%

    32And the children of Benjamin said, They are struck down before us, as at the first. But the children of Israel said, Let us flee, and draw them from the city to the highways.

  • 2 Sam 1:22
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    22From the blood of the slain, from the fat of the mighty, the bow of Jonathan did not turn back, and the sword of Saul did not return empty.

  • 2 Sam 21:16
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    16And Ishbibenob, who was of the descendants of the giant—the weight of whose spear was three hundred shekels of brass, and he was girded with a new sword—thought to kill David.

  • 1 Sam 14:2
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    2Saul was staying in the outermost part of Gibeah under a pomegranate tree in Migron, and the people with him were about six hundred men;

  • 1 Sam 31:3
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    3The battle went sore against Saul, and the archers hit him; and he was critically wounded by the archers.

  • Judg 20:45
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    45And they turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon; and they gleaned of them in the highways five thousand men; and pursued hard after them unto Gidom, and slew two thousand men of them.

  • 1 Sam 14:52
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    52There was fierce war against the Philistines throughout the days of Saul. When Saul saw any strong or valiant man, he took him into his service.

  • 1 Chr 5:18
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    18The sons of Reuben, and the Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh—valiant men, men able to bear shield and sword, and to shoot with the bow, and skillful in war—were forty-four thousand seven hundred and sixty, that went out to the war.

  • Num 2:22
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    22Then the tribe of Benjamin, and the captain of the sons of Benjamin shall be Abidan the son of Gideoni.