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FIRST CHRONICLES

19and said: 'My God forbid it me, that I should do this; shall I drink the blood of these men that have put their lives in jeopardy? for with the jeopardy of their lives they brought it.' Therefore he would not drink it. These things did the three mighty men.

20And [1]Abishai, the brother of Joab, he was chief of the three; for he lifted up his spear against three hundred and slew them, and had a name among the three. 21Of the three in the second rank he was the most honourable, and was made their captain; howbeit he attained not to the first three.

22Beniah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done mighty deeds, he smote the two altar-hearths of Moab; he went down also and slew a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow. 23And he slew 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 slew him with his own spear. 24These things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and had a name among the three mighty men. 25Behold, he was more honourable than the thirty, but he attained not to the first three; and David set him over his guard.

26Also the mighty men of valour: Asahel the brother of Joab, Elhanan the son of Dodo of Beth-lehem; 27Shammoth the Harorite, Helez the Pelonite; 28Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, Abiezer the Anathothite; 29Sibbecai the Hushathite, Ilai the Ahohite; 30Mahrai the Netophathite, Heled the son of Baanah the Netophathite; 31Ithai the son of Ribai of Gibeah of the children of Benjamin, Benaiah the Pirathonite; 32Hurai of Nahale-gaash, Abiel the Arbathite; 33Azmaveth the Baharumite, Eliahba the Shaalbonite; 34the sons of Hashem the Gizonite, Jonathan the son of Shageh the Hararite; 35Ahiam the son of Sacar the Hararite, Eliphal the son of Ur; 36Hepher the Mecherathite, Ahijah the Pelonite; 37Hezro the Carmelite, Naarai the son of Ezbai; 38Joel the brother of Nathan, Mibhar the son of Hagri; 39Zelek the Ammonite, Nahrai the Berothite, the armour-bearer of Joab the son of Zeruiah; 40Ira the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite; 41Uriah the Hittite, Zabad the son of Ahlai; 42Adina the son of Shiza the Reubenite, a chief of the Reubenites, and thirty with him; 43Hanan the son of Maacah, and Joshaphat the Mithnite; 44Uzzia the Ashterathite, Shama and Jeiel the sons of Hotham the Aroerite; 45Jediael the son of Shimri, and Joha his brother, the Tizite; 46Eliel the Mahavite, and Jeribai, and Joshaviah, the sons of Elnaam, and Ithmah the Moabite; 47Eliel, and Obed, and Jaasiel the Mezobaite.

12 Now these are they that came to David to Ziklag, while he was yet shut up because of Saul the son of Kish; and they were among the mighty men, his helpers in war. 2They were armed with bows, and could use both the right hand and the left in slinging stones and in shooting arrows from the bow; they were of Saul's brethren of Benjamin. 3The chief was Ahiezer, then Joash, the sons of Shemaah the Gibeathite; and Jeziel, and Pelet, the sons of Azmaveth; and Beracah, and Jehu the Anathothite; 4and Ishmaiah the Gibeonite, a mighty man among the thirty, and over the thirty; 5and Jeremiah, and Jahaziel, and Johanan, and Jozabad the Gederathite; 6Eluzai, and Jerimoth,

  1. Heb. Abshai.

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