1Chronicles11

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(1ch 11:1) Then all Israel gathered themselves to David unto Hebron, saying, Behold, we {are} thy bone and thy flesh.
(1ch 11:2) And moreover in time past, even when Saul was king, thou {wast} he that leddest out and broughtest in Israel: and the Lord thy God said unto thee, Thou shalt feed my people Israel, and thou shalt be ruler over my people Israel.
(1ch 11:3) Therefore came all the elders of Israel to the king to Hebron; and David made a covenant with them in Hebron before the Lord; and they anointed David king over Israel, according to the word of the Lord by Samuel.
(1ch 11:4) And David and all Israel went to Jerusalem, which {is} Jebus; where the Jebusites {were}, the inhabitants of the land.
(1ch 11:5) And the inhabitants of Jebus said to David, Thou shalt not come hither. Nevertheless David took the castle of Zion, which {is} the city of David.
(1ch 11:6) And David said, Whosoever smiteth the Jebusites first shall be chief and captain. So Joab the son of Zeruiah went first up, and was chief.
(1ch 11:7) And David dwelt in the castle; therefore they called it the city of David.
(1ch 11:8) And he built the city round about, even from Millo round about: and Joab repaired the rest of the city.
(1ch 11:9) So David waxed greater and greater: for the Lord of hosts {was} with him.
(1ch 11:10) These also {are} the chief of the mighty men whom David had, who strengthened themselves with him in his kingdom, {and} with all Israel, to make him king, according to the word of the Lord concerning Israel.
(1ch 11:11) And this {is} the number of the mighty men whom David had; Jashobeam, an Hachmonite, the chief of the captains: he lifted up his spear against three hundred slain {by him} at one time.
(1ch 11:12) And after him {was} Eleazar the son of Dodo, the Ahohite, who {was one} of the three mighties.
(1ch 11:13) He was with David at Pasdammim, and there the Philistines were gathered together to battle, where was a parcel of ground full of barley; and the people fled from before the Philistines.
(1ch 11:14) And they set themselves in the midst of {that} parcel, and delivered it, and slew the Philistines; and the Lord saved {them} by a great deliverance.
(1ch 11:15) Now three of the thirty captains went down to the rock to David, into the cave of Adullam; and the host of the Philistines encamped in the valley of Rephaim.
(1ch 11:16) And David {was} then in the hold, and the Philistines' garrison {was} then at Bethlehem.
(1ch 11:17) And David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me drink of the water of the well of Bethlehem, that {is} at the gate!
(1ch 11:18) And the three brake through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem, that {was} by the gate, and took {it}, and {brought} it to David: but David would not {drink} of it, but poured it out to the Lord.
(1ch 11:19) And said, My God forbid it me, that I should do this thing: 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 these three mightiest.
(1ch 11:20) And Abishai the brother of Joab, he was chief of the three: for lifting up his spear against three hundred, he slew {them}, and had a name among the three.
(1ch 11:21) Of the three, he was more honourable than the two; for he was their captain: howbeit he attained not to the {first} three.
(1ch 11:22) Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done many acts; he slew two lionlike men of Moab: also he went down and slew a lion in a pit in a snowy day.
(1ch 11:23) And 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.
(1ch 11:24) These {things} did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and had the name among the three mighties.
(1ch 11:25) Behold, he was honourable among the thirty, but attained not to the {first} three: and David set him over his guard.
(1ch 11:26) Also the valiant men of the armies {were}, Asahel the brother of Joab, Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem,
(1ch 11:27) Shammoth the Harorite, Helez the Pelonite,
(1ch 11:28) Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, Abiezer the Antothite,
(1ch 11:29) Sibbecai the Hushathite, Ilai the Ahohite,
(1ch 11:30) Maharai the Netophathite, Heled the son of Baanah the Netophathite,
(1ch 11:31) Ithai the son of Ribai of Gibeah, {that pertained} to the children of Benjamin, Benaiah the Pirathonite,
(1ch 11:32) Hurai of the brooks of Gaash, Abiel the Arbathite,
(1ch 11:33) Azmaveth the Baharumite, Eliahba the Shaalbonite,
(1ch 11:34) The sons of Hashem the Gizonite, Jonathan the son of Shage the Hararite,
(1ch 11:35) Ahiam the son of Sacar the Hararite, Eliphal the son of Ur,
(1ch 11:36) Hepher the Mecherathite, Ahijah the Pelonite,
(1ch 11:37) Hezro the Carmelite, Naarai the son of Ezbai,
(1ch 11:38) Joel the brother of Nathan, Mibhar the son of Haggeri,
(1ch 11:39) Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Berothite, the armourbearer of Joab the son of Zeruiah,
(1ch 11:40) Ira the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite,
(1ch 11:41) Uriah the Hittite, Zabad the son of Ahlai,
(1ch 11:42) Adina the son of Shiza the Reubenite, a captain of the Reubenites, and thirty with him,
(1ch 11:43) Hanan the son of Maachah, and Joshaphat the Mithnite,
(1ch 11:44) Uzzia the Ashterathite, Shama and Jehiel the sons of Hothan the Aroerite,
(1ch 11:45) Jediael the son of Shimri, and Joha his brother, the Tizite,
(1ch 11:46) Eliel the Mahavite, and Jeribai, and Joshaviah, the sons of Elnaam, and Ithmah the Moabite,
(1ch 11:47) Eliel, and Obed, and Jasiel the Mesobaite.
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