Thematic Bible
1 Chronicles 11:1 (show verse)
Then all Israel gathered themselves to David to Hebron, saying, Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh.
1 Chronicles 11:2 (show verse)
In times past, even when Saul was king, it was thou who led out and brought in Israel. And LORD thy God said to thee, Thou shall be shepherd of my people Israel, and thou shall be ruler over my people Israel.
1 Chronicles 11:3 (show verse)
So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron. And David made a covenant with them in Hebron before LORD. And they anointed David king over Israel, according to the word of LORD by Samuel.
1 Chronicles 11:4 (show verse)
And David and all Israel went to Jerusalem (the same is Jebus), and the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land, were there.
1 Chronicles 11:5 (show verse)
And the inhabitants of Jebus said to David, Thou shall not come in here. Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion; the same is the city of David.
1 Chronicles 11:6 (show verse)
And David said, Whoever smites the Jebusites first shall be chief and captain. And Joab the son of Zeruiah went up first, and was made chief.
1 Chronicles 11:7 (show verse)
And David dwelt in the stronghold. Therefore they called it the city of David.
1 Chronicles 11:8 (show verse)
And he built the city round about, from Millo even round about. And Joab repaired the rest of the city.
1 Chronicles 11:9 (show verse)
And David grew greater and greater, for LORD of hosts was with him.
1 Chronicles 11:10 (show verse)
Now these are the chief of the mighty men whom David had, who showed themselves strong with him in his kingdom, together with all Israel, to make him king, according to the word of LORD concerning Israel.
1 Chronicles 11:11 (show verse)
And this is the number of the mighty men whom David had: Jashobeam, the son of a Hachmonite, the chief of the thirty. He lifted up his spear against three hundred and killed them at one time.
1 Chronicles 11:12 (show verse)
And after him was Eleazar the son of Dodo, the Ahohite, who was one of the three mighty men.
1 Chronicles 11:13 (show verse)
He was with David at Pasdammim, and there the Philistines were gathered together to battle, where was a plot of ground full of barley. And the people fled from before the Philistines.
1 Chronicles 11:14 (show verse)
And they stood in the midst of the plot, and defended it, and killed the Philistines. And LORD saved them by a great victory.
1 Chronicles 11:15 (show verse)
And three of the thirty chief men went down to the rock to David into the cave of Adullam. And the army of the Philistines was encamped in the valley of Rephaim.
1 Chronicles 11:16 (show verse)
And David was then in the stronghold, and the garrison of the Philistines was then in Bethlehem.
1 Chronicles 11:17 (show verse)
And David longed, and said, Oh that a man would give me water to drink of the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate!
1 Chronicles 11:18 (show verse)
And the three broke through the army of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem, that was by the gate, and took it, and brought it to David. But David would not drink of it, but poured it out to LORD,
1 Chronicles 11:19 (show verse)
and said, My God forbid it of me, that I should do this. Shall I drink the blood of these men who have put their lives in jeopardy? For with [the jeopardy of] their lives they brought it. Therefore he would not drink it. These thin
1 Chronicles 11:20 (show verse)
And Abishai, the brother of Joab, he was chief of the three, for he lifted up his spear against three hundred and killed them, and had a name among the three.
1 Chronicles 11:21 (show verse)
Of the three, he was more famous than the two, and was made their captain. However he did not attain to the [first] three.
1 Chronicles 11:22 (show verse)
Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done mighty deeds, he killed the two [sons of] Ariel of Moab. He also went down and killed a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow.
1 Chronicles 11:23 (show verse)
And he killed an Egyptian, a man of great stature, five cubits high. And in the Egyptian's hand was a spear like a weaver's beam. And he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian's hand, and killed hi
1 Chronicles 11:24 (show verse)
These things Benaiah the son of Jehoiada did, and had a name among the three mighty men.
1 Chronicles 11:25 (show verse)
Behold, he was more famous than the thirty, but he did not attain to the [first] three. And David set him over his guard.
1 Chronicles 11:26 (show verse)
Also the mighty men of the armies: Asahel the brother of Joab, Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem,
1 Chronicles 11:27 (show verse)
Shammoth the Harorite, Helez the Pelonite,
1 Chronicles 11:28 (show verse)
Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, Abiezer the Anathothite,
1 Chronicles 11:29 (show verse)
Sibbecai the Hushathite, Ilai the Ahohite,
1 Chronicles 11:30 (show verse)
Maharai the Netophathite, Heled the son of Baanah the Netophathite,
1 Chronicles 11:31 (show verse)
Ithai the son of Ribai of Gibeah of the sons of Benjamin, Benaiah the Pirathonite,
1 Chronicles 11:32 (show verse)
Hurai of the brooks of Gaash, Abiel the Arbathite,
1 Chronicles 11:33 (show verse)
Azmaveth the Baharumite, Eliahba the Shaalbonite,
1 Chronicles 11:34 (show verse)
the sons of Hashem the Gizonite, Jonathan the son of Shagee the Hararite,
1 Chronicles 11:35 (show verse)
Ahiam the son of Sacar the Hararite, Eliphal the son of Ur,
1 Chronicles 11:36 (show verse)
Hepher the Mecherathite, Ahijah the Pelonite,
1 Chronicles 11:37 (show verse)
Hezro the Carmelite, Naarai the son of Ezbai,
1 Chronicles 11:38 (show verse)
Joel the brother of Nathan, Mibhar the son of Hagri,
1 Chronicles 11:39 (show verse)
Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Berothite, the armor bearer of Joab the son of Zeruiah,
1 Chronicles 11:40 (show verse)
Ira the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite,
1 Chronicles 11:41 (show verse)
Uriah the Hittite, Zabad the son of Ahlai,
1 Chronicles 11:42 (show verse)
Adina the son of Shiza the Reubenite, a chief of the Reubenites, and thirty with him,
1 Chronicles 11:43 (show verse)
Hanan the son of Maacah, and Joshaphat the Mithnite,
1 Chronicles 11:44 (show verse)
Uzzia the Ashterathite, Shama and Jeiel the sons of Hotham the Aroerite,
1 Chronicles 11:45 (show verse)
Jediael the son of Shimri, and Joha his brother, the Tizite,
1 Chronicles 11:46 (show verse)
Eliel the Mahavite, and Jeribai, and Joshaviah, the sons of Elnaam, and Ithmah the Moabite,
1 Chronicles 11:47 (show verse)
Eliel, and Obed, and Jaasiel the Mezobaite.