1 Chronicles 12:21

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • 1 Sam 30:1-9 : 1 And it came to pass, when David and his men came to Ziklag on the third day, that the Amalekites had invaded the south, and Ziklag, and struck Ziklag, and burned it with fire; 2 And had taken the women captives that were there: they killed none, either great or small, but carried them away, and went on their way. 3 So David and his men came to the city, and, behold, it was burned with fire; and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, were taken captives. 4 Then David and the people that were with him lifted up their voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep. 5 And David's two wives were taken captives, Ahinoam the Jezreelite, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite. 6 And David was greatly distressed; for the people spoke of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the LORD his God. 7 And David said to Abiathar the priest, Ahimelech's son, I pray you, bring me here the ephod. And Abiathar brought the ephod to David. 8 And David inquired of the LORD, saying, Shall I pursue after this troop? shall I overtake them? And He answered him, Pursue: for you shall surely overtake them, and without fail recover all. 9 So David went, he and the six hundred men that were with him, and came to the brook Besor, where those that were left behind stayed. 10 But David pursued, he and four hundred men: for two hundred stayed behind, who were so faint that they could not go over the brook Besor. 11 And they found an Egyptian in the field, and brought him to David, and gave him bread, and he ate; and they made him drink water; 12 And they gave him a piece of a cake of figs, and two clusters of raisins: and when he had eaten, his spirit came again to him: for he had eaten no bread, nor drunk any water, three days and three nights. 13 And David said to him, To whom do you belong? and where are you from? And he said, I am a young man of Egypt, servant to an Amalekite; and my master left me, because three days ago I fell sick. 14 We made an invasion upon the south of the Cherethites, and upon the coast which belongs to Judah, and upon the south of Caleb; and we burned Ziklag with fire. 15 And David said to him, Can you bring me down to this company? And he said, Swear to me by God, that you will neither kill me, nor deliver me into the hands of my master, and I will bring you down to this company. 16 And when he had brought him down, behold, they were spread abroad upon all the earth, eating and drinking, and dancing, because of all the great spoil that they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah. 17 And David struck them from the twilight even to the evening of the next day: and none of them escaped, except four hundred young men, who rode upon camels, and fled.
  • 1 Chr 5:24 : 24 And these were the heads of the house of their fathers: Epher, Ishi, Eliel, Azriel, Jeremiah, Hodaviah, and Jahdiel—mighty men of valor, famous men, and heads of the house of their fathers.
  • 1 Chr 11:10 : 10 These 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.
  • 1 Chr 11:21-22 : 21 Of the three, he was more honored than the two, for he was their captain. However, he did not attain to the first three. 22 Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done many deeds; he killed two lion-like men of Moab. Also, he went down and killed a lion in a pit on a snowy day.
  • 1 Chr 12:20 : 20 As he went to Ziklag, some from Manasseh joined him: Adnah, Jozabad, Jediael, Michael, Jozabad, Elihu, and Zilthai, captains of thousands from Manasseh.

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  • 1 Chr 12:1-3
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    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.

    2They 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.

    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,

  • 1 Chr 12:22-23
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    22For day by day men came to David to help him, until it was a great army, like the army of God.

    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.

  • 1 Chr 12:14-20
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    14These were from the sons of Gad, captains of the army: the least of them was a match for a hundred men, and the greatest for a thousand.

    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.

    17And David went out to meet them, and said to them, If you have come peacefully to help me, my heart shall be united with you; but if you have come to betray me to my enemies, since there is no wrong in my hands, may the God of our fathers see and judge.

    18Then the Spirit came upon Amasai, chief of the captains, and he said, We are yours, O David, and we are on your side, son of Jesse! Peace, peace to you, and peace to your helpers, for your God helps you. So David received them, and made them captains of the band.

    19And some from Manasseh defected to David when he went with the Philistines to battle against Saul; but they did not help them, for the lords of the Philistines, upon advisement, sent him away, saying, He may defect to his master Saul, to the jeopardy of our heads.

    20As he went to Ziklag, some from Manasseh joined him: Adnah, Jozabad, Jediael, Michael, Jozabad, Elihu, and Zilthai, captains of thousands from Manasseh.

  • 1 Chr 11:9-11
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    9So David grew greater and greater, for the LORD of hosts was with him.

    10These 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.

    11And this is the number of the mighty men whom David had: Jashobeam, an Hachmonite, the chief of the captains, who lifted up his spear against three hundred slain by him at one time.

  • 1 Chr 12:8-9
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    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;

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

  • 1 Sam 22:2
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    2And everyone that was in distress, and everyone that was in debt, and everyone that was discontented, gathered to him; and he became a captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred men.

  • 1 Chr 12:38-39
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    38All these men of war, who could keep ranks, came with a perfect heart to Hebron to make David king over all Israel; and all the rest of Israel were of one heart to make David king.

    39They were there with David for three days, eating and drinking, for their brethren had prepared for them.

  • 1 Chr 26:32
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    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.

  • 2 Sam 21:22
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    22These four were born to the giant in Gath and fell by the hand of David and by the hand of his servants.

  • 1 Sam 30:21
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    21And David came to the two hundred men, who were so faint that they could not follow David, whom they had also made to stay at the brook Besor: and they went out to meet David, and to meet the people that were with him: and when David came near to the people, he greeted them.

  • 1 Chr 28:1
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    1And David assembled all the leaders of Israel, the leaders of the tribes, the captains of the divisions that served the king by turns, the captains over the thousands, and captains over the hundreds, and the stewards over all the possessions of the king and of his sons, with the officers, and the mighty men, and all the valiant men, unto Jerusalem.

  • 1 Chr 12:28
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    28And Zadok, a young man mighty of valor, and his father's house, twenty-two captains.

  • 1 Chr 13:1
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    1And David consulted with the captains of thousands and hundreds, and with every leader.

  • 2 Sam 10:7
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    7And when David heard of it, he sent Joab and all the host of the mighty men.

  • 1 Chr 11:14-15
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    14But they stationed themselves in the midst of that piece of ground and defended it, and slew the Philistines; and the LORD saved them by a great deliverance.

    15Now three of the thirty chiefs went down to the rock to David, into the cave of Adullam, while the army of the Philistines encamped in the valley of Rephaim.

  • 2 Chr 26:13
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    13Under their command was an army of three hundred and seven thousand five hundred, who made war with mighty power to help the king against the enemy.

  • 1 Chr 20:8
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    8These were born to the giant in Gath; and they fell by the hand of David and by the hand of his servants.

  • 1 Sam 14:21
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    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.

  • 1 Chr 19:8
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    8And when David heard of it, he sent Joab and all the army of the mighty men.

  • 1 Chr 12:30
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    30Of the sons of Ephraim twenty thousand and eight hundred, mighty men of valor, famous throughout their father's house.

  • 1 Sam 25:12-13
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    12So David's young men turned away, and went back, and came and told him all these words.

    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.

  • 2 Sam 2:15
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    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.

  • 1 Chr 7:11
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    11All these the sons of Jediael, by the heads of their fathers, mighty men of valor, were seventeen thousand and two hundred soldiers, fit to go out for war and battle.

  • 1 Sam 30:23
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    23Then said David, You shall not do so, my brethren, with what the LORD has given us, who has preserved us, and delivered the company that came against us into our hand.

  • 1 Sam 29:2
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    2And the lords of the Philistines passed by hundreds and thousands, but David and his men passed in the rear with Achish.

  • 1 Sam 17:21
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    21Israel and the Philistines put the battle in array, army against army.

  • 1 Chr 5:24
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    24And these were the heads of the house of their fathers: Epher, Ishi, Eliel, Azriel, Jeremiah, Hodaviah, and Jahdiel—mighty men of valor, famous men, and heads of the house of their fathers.

  • 2 Sam 23:13
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    13And three of the thirty chief men went down and came to David in the harvest time into the cave of Adullam while the troop of the Philistines was encamped in the valley of Rephaim.

  • 2 Sam 18:7
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    7Where the people of Israel were defeated before the servants of David, and there was there a great slaughter that day of twenty thousand men.

  • 2 Sam 8:5
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    5And when the Syrians of Damascus came to aid Hadadezer king of Zobah, David struck down twenty-two thousand men of the Syrians.

  • Neh 11:14
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    14And their brethren, mighty men of valor, one hundred twenty-eight: and their overseer was Zabdiel, the son of one of the great men.

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

  • 1 Sam 28:1
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    1In those days, the Philistines gathered their armies for war, to fight against Israel. And Achish said to David, Be assured, you shall go out with me to battle, you and your men.

  • 1 Chr 21:5
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    5And Joab gave the total of the people to David. And all Israel were a million one hundred thousand men who drew sword: and Judah was four hundred and seventy thousand men who drew sword.

  • 2 Sam 18:1
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    1And David counted the people who were with him, and appointed captains of thousands and captains of hundreds over them.