1 Chronicles 12:1–22

¹And these are those coming in unto David to Ziklag, while shut up because of Saul son of Kish, and they are among the mighty ones, helping the battle, ²armed with bow, right and left handed, with stones, and with arrows, with bows, of the brethren of Saul, of Benjamin. ³The head is Ahiezer, and Joash, sons of Shemaab the Gibeathite, and Jeziel, and Pelet, sons of Azmaveth, and Berachah, and Jehu the Antothite, ⁴and Ishmaiah the Gibeonite, a mighty one among the thirty, and over the thirty, and Jeremiah, and Jahaziel, and Johanan, and Josabad the Gederathite. ⁵Eluzai, and Jerimoth, and Bealiah, and Shemariah, and Shephatiah the Haruphite; ⁶Elkanah, and Jesiah, and Azareel, and Joezer, and Jashobeam the Korhites, ⁷and Joelah, and Zebadiah, sons of Jeroham of Gedor. ⁸And of the Gadite there have been separated unto David, to the fortress, to the wilderness, mighty of valour, men of the host for battle, setting in array target and buckler, and their faces the face of the lion, and as roes on the mountains for speed: ⁹Ezer the head, Obadiah the second, Eliab the third, ¹⁰Mishmannah the fourth, Jeremiah the fifth, ¹¹Attai the sixth, Eliel the seventh, ¹²Johanan the eighth, Elzabad the ninth, ¹³Jeremiah the tenth, Machbannai the eleventh. ¹⁴These are of the sons of Gad, heads of the host, one of a hundred is the least, and the greatest, of a thousand; ¹⁵these are they who have passed over the Jordan in the first month,—and it is full over all its banks—and cause all they of the valley to flee to the east and to the west. ¹⁶And there come of the sons of Benjamin and Judah unto the stronghold to David, ¹⁷and David goeth out before them, and answereth and saith to them, ‘If for peace ye have come in unto me, to help me, I have a heart to unite with you; and if to betray me to mine adversaries—without violence in my hands—the God of our fathers doth see and reprove.’ ¹⁸And the Spirit hath clothed Amasai, head of the captains: ‘To thee, O David, and with thee, O son of Jesse—peace! peace to thee, and peace to thy helper, for thy God hath helped thee;’ and David receiveth them, and putteth them among the heads of the troop. ¹⁹And of Manasseh there have fallen unto David in his coming with the Philistines against Israel to battle—and they helped them not, for by counsel the princes of the Philistines sent him away, saying, ‘With our heads he doth fall unto his master Saul.’— ²⁰In his going unto Ziglag there have fallen unto him of Manasseh, Adnah, and Jozabad, and Jediael, and Michael, and Jozabad, and Elihu, and Zillthai, heads of the thousands that are of Manasseh; ²¹and they have helped with David over the troop, for mighty of valour are all of them, and they are captains in the host, ²²for at that time, day by day, they come in unto David to help him, till it is a great camp, like a camp of God.