1 And all Israel came to David in Hebron, saying, Behold, we [are] thy bones and thy flesh. 2 And heretofore when Saul was king, thou wast he that led Israel in and out, and the Lord of Israel said to thee, Thou shalt feed my people Israel, and thou shalt be for a ruler over Israel. 3 And all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron; and King David made a covenant with them in Hebron before the Lord: and they anointed David to be king over Israel, according to the word of the Lord by Samuel. 4 And the king and his men went to Jerusalem, this [is] Jebus; and there the Jebusites the inhabitants of the land said to David, 5 Thou shalt not enter in hither. But he took the stronghold of Zion: this [is] the city of David. 6 And David said, Whoever first smites the Jebusite, even he shall be chief and captain. And Joab the son of Zeruiah went up first, and became chief. 7 And David dwelt in the stronghold; therefore he called it the city of David. 8 And he fortified the city round about. 9 And David continued to increase, and the Lord Almighty [was] with him. 10 And these [are] the chiefs of the mighty men, whom David had, who strengthened [themselves] with him in his kingdom, with all Israel, to make him king, according to the word of the Lord concerning Israel. 11 And this [is] the list of the mighty [men] of David; Jashobeam, son of Hachmon, first of the thirty: he drew his sword once against three hundred whom he slew at one time. 12 And after him Eleazar son of Dodai, the Ahohite: he was among the three mighty men. 13 He was with David in Pas-dammim, and the Philistines were gathered there to battle, and [there was] a portion of the field full of barley; and the people fled before the Philistines. 14 And he stood in the midst of the portion, and rescued it, and smote the Philistines; and the Lord wrought a great deliverance. 15 And three of the thirty chiefs went down to the rock to David, to the cave of Adullam, and the camp of the Philistines [was] in the giants’ valley. 16 And David [was] then in the hold, and the garrison of the Philistines [was] then in Bethlehem. 17 And David longed, and said, Who will give me water to drink of the well of Bethlehem, that is in the gate? 18 And the three broke through the camp of the Philistines, and they drew water out of the well that was in Bethlehem, which was in the gate, and they took it, and came to David: but David would not drink it, and poured it out to the Lord, and said, 19 God forbid that I should do this thing: shall I drink the blood of these men with their lives? for with [the peril of] their lives they brought it. So he would not drink it. These things did the three mighty [men]. 20 And Abishai the brother of Joab, he was chief of three: he drew his sword against three hundred slain at one time, and he had a name among the [second] three. 21 He was more famous than the two [others] of the three, and he was chief [over] them; yet he reached not to the [first] three. 22 And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was the son of a mighty man: many [were] his acts for Kabzeel: he smote two lionlike men of Moab, and he went down and smote a lion in a pit on a snowy day. 23 And he smote an Egyptian, a wonderful man five cubits [high]; and in the hand of the Egyptian [there was] a spear like a weavers’ beam; and Benaiah went down to him with a staff, and took the spear out of the Egyptian’s hand, and slew him with his own spear. 24 These things did Benaiah son of Jehoiada, and his name [was] among the three mighties. 25 He was distinguished beyond the thirty, yet he reached not to the [first] three: and David set him over his family. 26 And the mighty [men] of the forces [were], Asahel the brother of Joab, Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem, 27 Shammoth the Harodite, Helez the Pelonite, 28 Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, Abiezer the Anathothite, 29 Sibbecai the Hushathite, Ilai the Ahohite, 30 Maharai the Netophathite, Heled the son of Baanah the Netophathite, 31 Ithai the son of Ribai of the hill of Benjamin, Benaiah the Pirathonite, 32 Hurai of Nachali Gaash, Abiel the Arbathite, 33 Azmaveth the Baharumite, Eliahba the Shaalbonite, 34 the son of Hashem the Gizonite, Jonathan the son of Shagee the Hararite, 35 Ahiam the son of Sachar the Hararite, Eliphal the son of Thyrophar 36 the Mecherathite, Ahijah the Pelonite, 37 Hezro the Carmelite, Naarai the son of Ezbai, 38 Joel the son of Nathan, Mibhar son of Hagri, 39 Zelek the son of Ammoni, Naharai the Beerothite, armor bearer to the son of Zeruiah, 40 Ira the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite, 41 Uriah the Hittite, Zabad son of Ahlai, 42 Adina son of Shiza, a chief of Reuben, and thirty with him, 43 Hanan the son of Maacah, and Joshaphat the Mithnite, 44 Uzzia the Ashterathite, Shama and Jeiel sons of Hotham the Aroerite, 45 Jediael the son of Shimri, and Joha his brother the Tizite, 46 Eliel the Mahavite, and Jeribai, and Joshaviah his son, Elnaam, and Ithmah the Moabite, 47 Eliel, and Obed, and Jaasiel of Mezoba.
1 Chronicles · Updated Brenton English Septuagint
1 Chronicles 11 Updated Brenton English Septuagint
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- Same Septuagint text as Brenton, with modernised spelling.
People & places in this chapter
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People
Abiezer
Abiezer the Anathothite, listed among the Thirty.
Cited in the guide: 2 Samuel 23:27; 1 Chronicles 11:28; 1 Chronicles 27:12
Adina
Son of Shiza the Reubenite, chief of the Reubenites, who had thirty men with him.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 11:42
Ahiam
Ahiam son of Sharar the Hararite, listed among the Thirty.
Cited in the guide: 2 Samuel 23:33; 1 Chronicles 11:35
Ahijah
Listed among David's mighty men as Ahijah the Pelonite.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 11:36
Ahlai
Named as the father of Zabad, one of David's mighty men.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 11:41
Azmaveth
Azmaveth the Barhumite, listed among the Thirty.
Cited in the guide: 2 Samuel 23:31; 1 Chronicles 11:33
Baanah
Named as the father of Heled, one of David's mighty men.
Cited in the guide: 2 Samuel 23:29; 1 Chronicles 11:30
Benaiah
Benaiah the Pirathonite, listed among the Thirty.
Cited in the guide: 2 Samuel 23:30; 1 Chronicles 11:31; 1 Chronicles 27:14
Dodo
Ahohite named as the father of Eleazar, one of the Three; a Dodai the Ahohite commanded David's second-month division (probably the same man).
Cited in the guide: 2 Samuel 23:9; 1 Chronicles 11:12; 1 Chronicles 27:4
Dodo
Named as the father of Elhanan of Bethlehem, one of David's mighty men.
Cited in the guide: 2 Samuel 23:24; 1 Chronicles 11:26
Eleazar
Son of Dodo the Ahohite and one of the Three, who stood his ground with David against the Philistines at Pas-dammim until his hand stuck to his sword.
Cited in the guide: 2 Samuel 23:9; 2 Samuel 23:10; 1 Chronicles 11:12
Elhanan
Son of Dodo of Bethlehem, listed among the Thirty.
Cited in the guide: 2 Samuel 23:24; 1 Chronicles 11:26
Eliahba
Eliahba the Shaalbonite, listed among the Thirty.
Cited in the guide: 2 Samuel 23:32; 1 Chronicles 11:33
Eliel
Listed among David's mighty men as Eliel the Mahavite.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 11:46
Eliel
Listed among David's mighty men, a second Eliel after Eliel the Mahavite.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 11:47
Eliphal
Son of Ur, listed among David's mighty men.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 11:35
Elnaam
Named as the father of Jeribai and Joshaviah, mighty men of David.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 11:46
Ezbai
Named as the father of Naarai, one of David's mighty men.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 11:37
Gareb
Gareb the Ithrite, listed among the Thirty.
Cited in the guide: 2 Samuel 23:38; 1 Chronicles 11:40
Hagri
Named as the father of Mibhar, one of David's mighty men.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 11:38
Hanan
Son of Maacah, listed among David's mighty men.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 11:43
Heled
Heled son of Baanah the Netophathite, listed among the Thirty.
Cited in the guide: 2 Samuel 23:29; 1 Chronicles 11:30; 1 Chronicles 27:15
Helez
Helez the Paltite, listed among the Thirty.
Cited in the guide: 2 Samuel 23:26; 1 Chronicles 11:27; 1 Chronicles 27:10
Hezro
Hezro the Carmelite, listed among the Thirty.
Cited in the guide: 2 Samuel 23:35; 1 Chronicles 11:37
Hiddai
Hiddai from the brooks of Gaash, listed among the Thirty.
Cited in the guide: 2 Samuel 23:30; 1 Chronicles 11:32
Hotham
Named as the Aroerite, father of Shama and Jeiel, two of David's mighty men.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 11:44
Ikkesh
Named as the father of Ira, one of David's mighty men.
Cited in the guide: 2 Samuel 23:26; 1 Chronicles 11:28; 1 Chronicles 27:9
Ira
Ira son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, listed among the Thirty.
Cited in the guide: 2 Samuel 23:26; 1 Chronicles 11:28; 1 Chronicles 27:9
Ira
Ira the Ithrite, listed among the Thirty.
Cited in the guide: 2 Samuel 23:38; 1 Chronicles 11:40
Ithmah
Moabite listed among David's mighty men.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 11:46
Jaasiel
Listed among David's mighty men as Jaasiel the Mezobaite.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 11:47
Jashen
Named in the list of the Thirty as the father of a group of mighty men (the sons of Jashen).
Cited in the guide: 2 Samuel 23:32; 1 Chronicles 11:34
Jashobeam
Chief of the officers of David's mighty men, who wielded his spear against three hundred men at one time. 2 Samuel 23:8 calls him Josheb-basshebeth the Tahchemonite and puts the…
Cited in the guide: 2 Samuel 23:8; 1 Chronicles 11:11
Jediael
Son of Shimri, listed among David's mighty men.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 11:45
Jeiel
One of the sons of Hotham the Aroerite, listed among David's mighty men.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 11:44
Jeribai
One of the sons of Elnaam, listed among David's mighty men.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 11:46
Joel
Brother of Nathan, listed among David's mighty men.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 11:38
Joha
Brother of Jediael, listed among David's mighty men as Joha the Tizite.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 11:45
Jonathan
Son of Shagee the Hararite, listed among David's mighty men.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 11:34
Joshaphat
Listed among David's mighty men as Joshaphat the Mithnite.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 11:43
Joshaviah
One of the sons of Elnaam, listed among David's mighty men.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 11:46
Maacah
Named as the father of Hanan, one of David's mighty men (the text gives only the name Maacah).
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 11:43
Maharai
Maharai the Netophathite, listed among the Thirty.
Cited in the guide: 2 Samuel 23:28; 1 Chronicles 11:30; 1 Chronicles 27:13
Mibhar
Son of Hagri, listed among David's mighty men.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 11:38
Naharai
Naharai the Beerothite, the armor-bearer of Joab son of Zeruiah, listed among the Thirty.
Cited in the guide: 2 Samuel 23:37; 1 Chronicles 11:39
Nathan
Named only as the brother of Joel, one of David's mighty men.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 11:38
Obed
Ribai
Named as the father of Ithai of Gibeah of the Benjamites.
Cited in the guide: 2 Samuel 23:29; 1 Chronicles 11:31
Shagee
Named as the father of Jonathan, one of David's mighty men.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 11:34
Shama
One of the sons of Hotham the Aroerite, listed among David's mighty men.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 11:44
Sharar
Called a Hararite and named as the father of Ahiam, a member of the Thirty.
Cited in the guide: 2 Samuel 23:33; 1 Chronicles 11:35
Shimri
Named as the father of Jediael and Joha, mighty men of David.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 11:45
Shiza
Named as the father of Adina the Reubenite.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 11:42
Sibbecai
Sibbecai the Hushathite, who killed Saph, one of the descendants of Rapha, in a battle with the Philistines at Gob. 1 Chronicles 11:29 lists Sibbecai where 2 Samuel 23:27 reads…
Cited in the guide: 2 Samuel 21:18; 2 Samuel 23:27; 1 Chronicles 11:29
Uzzia
Listed among David's mighty men as Uzzia the Ashterathite.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 11:44
Zabad
Son of Ahlai, listed among David's mighty men.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 11:41
Zalmon
Zalmon the Ahohite, listed among the Thirty.
Cited in the guide: 2 Samuel 23:28; 1 Chronicles 11:29
Zelek
Zelek the Ammonite, listed among the Thirty.
Cited in the guide: 2 Samuel 23:37; 1 Chronicles 11:39
Cross references (37)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 1 Kings 2:11; 2 Samuel 5:1–16; 1 Chronicles 12:23–40; 2 Samuel 15:10; Genesis 29:14
- 2 2 Samuel 5:2; John 10:4; Psalm 78:71; 1 Samuel 18:13; 2 Samuel 7:7
- 3 1 Samuel 16:1; 1 Samuel 16:12–13; 2 Samuel 2:4; 2 Samuel 5:3; 1 Samuel 28:17
- 4 Judges 1:21; Joshua 15:63; Joshua 15:8; 1 Chronicles 11:5; Genesis 15:21
- 5 Psalm 132:13; 2 Samuel 6:12; 1 Samuel 17:26; 2 Samuel 5:9; 1 Chronicles 11:7
- 6 2 Samuel 8:16; 2 Samuel 20:23; Joshua 15:16–17; 2 Samuel 2:18; 1 Samuel 17:25
- 7 2 Samuel 5:7; Psalm 2:6; 1 Chronicles 11:5
- 8 1 Kings 11:27; Nehemiah 4:2; Judges 9:20; 1 Kings 9:15; Judges 9:6
- 9 2 Samuel 3:1; Isaiah 41:10; Romans 8:31; 2 Samuel 5:10; Isaiah 41:14
- 10 1 Chronicles 11:3; 2 Samuel 23:8–39; 1 Chronicles 12:38; 2 Samuel 3:21; 2 Samuel 3:17–18
- 11 2 Samuel 23:8; 1 Chronicles 27:2; 1 Chronicles 12:18
- 12 1 Chronicles 27:4; 2 Samuel 23:9; 1 Chronicles 11:21; 2 Samuel 23:17–19; 1 Chronicles 11:19
- 13 1 Samuel 17:1; 2 Samuel 23:11–12
- 14 Psalm 144:10; Proverbs 21:31; 1 Samuel 14:23; 2 Samuel 23:10; 2 Kings 5:1
- 15 2 Samuel 5:18; 1 Chronicles 14:9; Isaiah 17:5; Joshua 12:15; 1 Samuel 22:1
- 16 1 Samuel 10:5; 1 Samuel 13:23; 1 Samuel 13:4; 1 Samuel 23:25; 1 Samuel 22:1
- 17 John 4:14; John 4:10; Isaiah 12:3; 2 Samuel 23:15–16; Psalm 63:1
- 18 Acts 21:13; Acts 20:24; 1 Samuel 7:6; Song of Songs 8:6; 2 Corinthians 5:14–15
- 19 2 Samuel 23:17; Psalm 72:14; Judges 9:17; Leviticus 17:10; 1 Corinthians 15:30
- 20 1 Samuel 26:6; 1 Chronicles 2:16; 2 Samuel 3:30; 2 Samuel 21:17; 2 Samuel 2:18
- 21 1 Corinthians 15:41; Matthew 13:8
- 22 2 Samuel 23:20–23; 2 Samuel 8:18; Joshua 15:21; 1 Kings 2:34–35; 2 Samuel 20:23
- 23 1 Samuel 17:7; 1 Chronicles 20:5; 1 Samuel 17:4; 1 Samuel 17:51; Deuteronomy 3:11
- 25 2 Samuel 20:23
- 26 1 Chronicles 27:7; 2 Samuel 3:30; 2 Samuel 21:19; 2 Samuel 23:24; 2 Samuel 2:18–23
- 27 2 Samuel 23:25–26
- 28 1 Chronicles 27:12; 1 Chronicles 27:9; 2 Samuel 23:27
- 29 1 Chronicles 27:11; 2 Samuel 23:27–28
- 30 1 Chronicles 27:13; 2 Samuel 23:29; 1 Chronicles 27:15
- 31 2 Samuel 23:29
- 32 2 Samuel 23:30–31
- 34 2 Samuel 23:32–33
- 35 2 Samuel 23:33–34
- 37 2 Samuel 23:35
- 38 2 Samuel 23:36
- 40 2 Samuel 20:26
- 41 2 Samuel 23:39; 2 Samuel 11:6–27; 1 Chronicles 2:36
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