1 Chronicles 12:8

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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;

Into the hold

Handle

2 Chronicles 25:5

Jeremiah 46:9

Whose faces

Proverbs 28:1

As swift as the roes upon the mountains

2 Samuel 2:18

Proverbs 6:5

Song of Songs 8:14

Bible References

Into the hold

Then some of the sons of Benjamin and Judah came to the stronghold to David.

David was then in the stronghold, while the garrison of the Philistines was then in Bethlehem.

David stayed in the wilderness in the strongholds, and remained in the hill country in the wilderness of Ziph. And Saul sought him every day, but God did not deliver him into his hand.

David swore to Saul. And Saul went to his home, but David and his men went up to the stronghold.

Handle

Moreover, Amaziah assembled Judah and appointed them according to their fathers’ households under commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds throughout Judah and Benjamin; and he took a census of those from twenty years old and upward and found them to be 300,000 choice men, able to go to war and handle spear and shield.

Go up, you horses, and

drive madly, you chariots,

That the mighty men may march forward:
Ethiopia and

Put, that handle the shield,

And the

Lydians, that handle and bend the bow.

Whose faces

Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, mighty in deeds, struck down the two sons of Ariel of Moab. He also went down and killed a lion inside a pit on a snowy day.

“Saul and Jonathan, beloved and pleasant in their life,
And in their death they were not parted;

They were swifter than eagles,

They were stronger than lions.

And even the one who is valiant, whose heart is like the heart of a lion, will completely lose heart; for all Israel knows that your father is a mighty man and those who are with him are valiant men.

Then Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done mighty deeds, killed the two sons of Ariel of Moab. He also went down and killed a lion in the middle of a pit on a snowy day.

The wicked flee when no one is pursuing,
But the righteous are bold as a lion.

As swift as the roes upon the mountains

Now the three sons of Zeruiah were there, Joab and Abishai and Asahel; and Asahel was as swift-footed as one of the gazelles which is in the field.

Deliver yourself like a gazelle from the hunter’s hand
And like a bird from the hand of the fowler.

“

Hurry, my beloved,

And be like a gazelle or a young stag
On the mountains of spices.”