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I Chronicles Chapter 12

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First Chronicles 12 lists the mighty men who joined David at Ziklag while he was still hiding from Saul, including Benjamite archers ambidextrous with bow and stone, Gadite warriors who crossed the flooded Jordan, and men of Manasseh who came when David went to Ziklag. It records how David accepted them after God's Spirit came upon Amasai, and describes the steadily growing ranks from every tribe. The chapter closes with a great assembly at Hebron of armed men of one heart to make David king over all Israel, accompanied by three days of eating and drinking and abundant provisions from the surrounding tribes, for there was joy in Israel.

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(1) Now these are they that came to David to Ziklag, while he yet kept himself close because of Saul the son of Kish: and they were among the mighty men, helpers of the war.
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I Samuel 27:2I Samuel 27:6II Samuel 1:1II Samuel 4:10I Chronicles 8:33I Chronicles 9:39I Chronicles 11:10I Chronicles 11:19I Chronicles 11:24I Chronicles 11:25

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Ezekiel 32:27Joel 3:9I Samuel 30:1

(2) They were armed with bows, and could use both the right hand and the left in hurling stones and shooting arrows out of a bow, even of Saul's brethren of Benjamin.
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Judges 3:15Judges 20:16I Samuel 17:49

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I Chronicles 29:2II Kings 13:15I Kings 7:10II Chronicles 17:17I Kings 5:17II Samuel 4:2

(3) The chief was Ahiezer, then Joash, the sons of Shemaah the Gibeathite; and Jeziel, and Pelet, the sons of Azmaveth; and Berachah, and Jehu the Antothite,
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I Samuel 11:4II Samuel 21:6I Chronicles 11:33I Chronicles 11:28

(4) And Ismaiah the Gibeonite, a mighty man among the thirty, and over the thirty; and Jeremiah, and Jahaziel, and Johanan, and Josabad the Gederathite,
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Joshua 9:3Joshua 9:17Joshua 9:18Joshua 9:19Joshua 9:20Joshua 9:21Joshua 9:22Joshua 9:23I Chronicles 11:15Joshua 15:36

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Judges 10:4Judges 12:9I Chronicles 27:6Genesis 18:30Judges 14:12Judges 14:13

(5) Eluzai, and Jerimoth, and Bealiah, and Shemariah, and Shephatiah the Haruphite,
(6) Elkanah, and Jesiah, and Azareel, and Joezer, and Jashobeam, the Korhites,
(7) And Joelah, and Zebadiah, the sons of Jeroham of Gedor.
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I Chronicles 4:18I Chronicles 4:39Joshua 15:58

(8) 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;
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I Chronicles 12:16I Chronicles 11:16I Samuel 23:14I Samuel 23:29I Samuel 24:22II Chronicles 25:5Jeremiah 46:9I Chronicles 11:22II Samuel 1:23II Samuel 17:10II Samuel 23:20Proverbs 28:1

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(9) Ezer the first, Obadiah the second, Eliab the third,
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(10) Mishmannah the fourth, Jeremiah the fifth,
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(11) Attai the sixth, Eliel the seventh,
(12) Johanan the eighth, Elzabad the ninth,
(13) Jeremiah the tenth, Machbanai the eleventh.
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(14) These were of the sons of Gad, captains of the host: one of the least was over an hundred, and the greatest over a thousand.
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Leviticus 26:8Deuteronomy 32:30

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II Samuel 24:4Deuteronomy 1:15Numbers 31:14Numbers 31:48I Chronicles 26:26I Chronicles 28:1

(15) These are they that went over Jordan in the first month, when it had overflown all his banks; and they put to flight all them of the valleys, both toward the east, and toward the west.
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Joshua 3:15Joshua 4:18Jeremiah 12:5Jeremiah 49:19

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(16) And there came of the children of Benjamin and Judah to the hold unto David.
(17) And David went out to meet them, and answered and said unto them, If ye be come peaceably unto me to help me, mine heart shall be knit unto you: but if ye be come to betray me to mine enemies, seeing there is no wrong in mine hands, the God of our fathers look thereon, and rebuke it.
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I Samuel 16:4II Samuel 3:20II Samuel 3:21II Samuel 3:22II Samuel 3:23II Samuel 3:24II Samuel 3:25I Kings 2:13II Kings 9:22Psalms 12:1Psalms 12:2I Samuel 18:1

(18) Then the spirit came upon Amasai, who was chief of the captains, and he said, Thine are we, David, and on thy side, thou son of Jesse: peace, peace be unto thee, and peace be to thine helpers; for thy God helpeth thee. Then David received them, and made them captains of the band.
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Judges 6:34Judges 13:25Isaiah 59:17I Chronicles 2:17II Samuel 17:25II Samuel 19:13II Samuel 20:4II Samuel 20:5II Samuel 20:6II Samuel 20:7II Samuel 20:8II Kings 10:5

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(19) And there fell some of Manasseh to David, when he came with the Philistines against Saul to battle: but they helped them not: for the lords of the Philistines upon advisement sent him away, saying, He will fall to his master Saul to the jeopardy of our heads.
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I Samuel 29:2I Samuel 29:3I Samuel 29:4

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(20) As he went to Ziklag, there fell to him of Manasseh, Adnah, and Jozabad, and Jediael, and Michael, and Jozabad, and Elihu, and Zilthai, captains of the thousands that were of Manasseh.
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(21) And they helped David against the band of the rovers: for they were all mighty men of valour, and were captains in the host.
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I Samuel 30:1I Samuel 30:2I Samuel 30:3I Samuel 30:4I Samuel 30:5I Samuel 30:6I Samuel 30:7I Samuel 30:8I Samuel 30:9I Samuel 30:10I Samuel 30:11I Samuel 30:12

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(22) For at that time day by day there came to David to help him, until it was a great host, like the host of God.
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II Samuel 2:2II Samuel 2:3II Samuel 2:4II Samuel 3:1Job 17:9Genesis 32:2Joshua 5:14Psalms 148:2

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(23) And these are the numbers of the bands that were ready armed to the war, and came to David to Hebron, to turn the kingdom of Saul to him, according to the word of the LORD.
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I Chronicles 11:1I Chronicles 11:2I Chronicles 11:3II Samuel 2:3II Samuel 2:4II Samuel 5:1II Samuel 5:2II Samuel 5:3I Chronicles 10:14I Chronicles 11:10I Samuel 16:1I Samuel 16:3

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(24) The children of Judah that bare shield and spear were six thousand and eight hundred, ready armed to the war.
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I Chronicles 12:35I Samuel 17:7I Chronicles 20:6Judges 5:8I Chronicles 12:23II Chronicles 25:5

(25) Of the children of Simeon, mighty men of valour for the war, seven thousand and one hundred.
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(26) Of the children of Levi four thousand and six hundred.
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(27) And Jehoiada was the leader of the Aaronites, and with him were three thousand and seven hundred;
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I Chronicles 9:20II Kings 11:4II Kings 11:9II Kings 25:18I Chronicles 6:49I Chronicles 6:50I Chronicles 6:51I Chronicles 6:52I Chronicles 6:53I Chronicles 6:54I Chronicles 6:55I Chronicles 6:56

(28) And Zadok, a young man mighty of valour, and of his father's house twenty and two captains.
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I Chronicles 6:8I Chronicles 6:53II Samuel 8:17I Kings 1:8I Kings 2:35Ezekiel 44:15

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(29) And of the children of Benjamin, the kindred of Saul, three thousand: for hitherto the greatest part of them had kept the ward of the house of Saul.
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I Chronicles 12:2Genesis 31:23II Samuel 2:8II Samuel 2:9

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(30) And of the children of Ephraim twenty thousand and eight hundred, mighty men of valour, famous throughout the house of their fathers.
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(31) And of the half tribe of Manasseh eighteen thousand, which were expressed by name, to come and make David king.
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Joshua 17:1Joshua 17:2Joshua 17:3Joshua 17:4Joshua 17:5Joshua 17:6Joshua 17:7Joshua 17:8Joshua 17:9Joshua 17:10Joshua 17:11Joshua 17:12

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(32) And of the children of Issachar, which were men that had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do; the heads of them were two hundred; and all their brethren were at their commandment.
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Genesis 49:14Esther 1:13Isaiah 22:12Isaiah 22:13Isaiah 22:14Isaiah 33:6Micah 6:9Matthew 16:3Luke 12:56Luke 12:57Proverbs 14:8Ephesians 5:17

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(33) Of Zebulun, such as went forth to battle, expert in war, with all instruments of war, fifty thousand, which could keep rank: they were not of double heart.
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Psalms 12:2John 1:47

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(34) And of Naphtali a thousand captains, and with them with shield and spear thirty and seven thousand.
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(35) And of the Danites expert in war twenty and eight thousand and six hundred.
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(36) And of Asher, such as went forth to battle, expert in war, forty thousand.
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I Chronicles 12:33Joel 2:7

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(37) And on the other side of Jordan, of the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and of the half tribe of Manasseh, with all manner of instruments of war for the battle, an hundred and twenty thousand.
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(38) All these men of war, that could keep rank, came with a perfect heart to Hebron, to make David king over all Israel: and all the rest also of Israel were of one heart to make David king.
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I Kings 8:61I Kings 11:4II Kings 20:3Psalms 101:2I Chronicles 12:17I Chronicles 12:18Genesis 49:8Genesis 49:9Genesis 49:10II Chronicles 30:12Psalms 110:3Ezekiel 11:19

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(39) And there they were with David three days, eating and drinking: for their brethren had prepared for them.
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Genesis 26:30Genesis 31:54II Samuel 6:19II Samuel 19:42

(40) Moreover they that were nigh them, even unto Issachar and Zebulun and Naphtali, brought bread on asses, and on camels, and on mules, and on oxen, and meat, meal, cakes of figs, and bunches of raisins, and wine, and oil, and oxen, and sheep abundantly: for there was joy in Israel.
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