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Text -- 1 Chronicles 12:1-15 (NET)
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Warriors Who Joined David at Ziklag
12:1 These were the men who joined David in Ziklag , when he was banished from the presence of Saul son of Kish . (They were among the warriors who assisted him in battle .
12:2 They were armed with bows and could shoot arrows or sling stones right or left-handed . They were fellow tribesmen of Saul from Benjamin .) These were:
12:3 Ahiezer , the leader , and Joash , the sons of Shemaah the Gibeathite ; Jeziel and Pelet , the sons of Azmaveth ; Berachah , Jehu the Anathothite ,
12:4 Ishmaiah the Gibeonite , one of the thirty warriors and their leader,Jeremiah, Jahaziel , Johanan , Jozabad the Gederathite ,
12:5 Eluzai , Jerimoth , Bealiah , Shemariah , Shephatiah the Haruphite ,
12:6 Elkanah , Isshiah , Azarel , Joezer , and Jashobeam , who were Korahites ,
12:7 and Joelah and Zebadiah , the sons of Jeroham from Gedor .
12:8 Some of the Gadites joined David at the stronghold in the desert . They were warriors who were trained for battle ; they carried shields and spears . They were as fierce as lions and could run as quickly as gazelles across the hills .
12:9 Ezer was the leader , Obadiah the second in command, Eliab the third ,
12:10 Mishmannah the fourth , Jeremiah the fifth ,
12:11 Attai the sixth , Eliel the seventh ,
12:12 Johanan the eighth , Elzabad the ninth ,
12:13 Jeremiah the tenth , and Machbannai the eleventh .
12:14 These Gadites were military leaders ; the least led a hundred men, the greatest a thousand .
12:15 They crossed the Jordan River in the first month , when it was overflowing its banks , and routed those living in all the valleys to the east and west .
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NET Notes: 1Ch 12:2 The words “These were” have been supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons, because of the length of the intervening material sinc...
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NET Notes: 1Ch 12:4 In the Hebrew text (BHS) a verse division occurs at this point, and for the remainder of the chapter the verse numbers of the Hebrew Bible differ by o...
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NET Notes: 1Ch 12:8 Heb “warriors, men of battle for war, prepared with shield and spear, and [like] the face of a lion were their faces, and like gazelles on the h...
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NET Notes: 1Ch 12:14 Heb “one for a hundred the small, and the great for a thousand.” Another option is to translate the preposition -לְ (lamed) as...
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