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1Now these are the men who came to David at Ziklag, while he yet kept himself away from Saul the son of Kish. They were among the brave men, helpers in the war.[#1Sa 27:2–6]
2They were armed with bows, and could use both the right hand and the left in hurling stones and shooting arrows out of a bow. They were Saul’s brothers of Benjamin.[#Jdg 3:15; 20:16]
3The chief was Ahiezer, then Joash, the sons of Shemaah the Gibeathite; Jeziel and Pelet the sons of Azmaveth; Berakah, and Jehu the Anathothite;[#1Ch 11:28]
4and Ishmaiah the Gibeonite, a brave warrior among the thirty, and over the thirty; Jeremiah, Jahaziel, Johanan, and Jozabad the Gederathite;[#Jos 9:3; #Jos 15:36]
5and Eluzai, Jerimoth, Bealiah, Shemariah, and Shephatiah the Haruphite;
6and Elkanah, Ishiah, Azarel, Joezer, and Jashobeam the Korahites;
7and Joelah and Zebadiah, the sons of Jeroham of Gedor.[#Jos 15:58]
8From the Gadites, mighty men of valor, men of the war battalion, who could handle shield and sword, whose faces were like the faces of lions, and who were as swift as the gazelles on the mountains, separated themselves for David in the stronghold in the wilderness:[#2Sa 17:10; #2Sa 2:18]
14These were from Gad, captains of the battalions. One of the least of them was as a hundred and the greatest as a thousand.[#Lev 26:8; Dt 32:30]
15These were the ones who crossed over the Jordan during the first month when it had overflowed its banks and caused the valley dwellers to flee to the east and to the west.[#Jos 3:15; 4:18]
16Some of the sons of Benjamin and Judah came to the stronghold of David.
17So David went out before them and said to them, “If you have come in peace to help me, then I will have a heart united with yours, but if to betray me to my adversaries, when there is no violence in my hand, may the God of our fathers see, and may He decide between us.”
18Then the Spirit came upon Amasai the captain of the officers, and he said,[#Jdg 6:34; 2Sa 17:25]
“We are for you, David,
and with you, son of Jesse.
Peace, peace to you,
and peace to the one helping you, for your God helps you.”
So David welcomed them and appointed them as captains of the troops.
19Now some from Manasseh joined forces with David when he came with the Philistines for battle against Saul, but they did not help them. For after taking counsel, the lords of the Philistines sent him away, saying, “It will be our heads if he falls back to his lord Saul.”[#1Sa 29:2–9]
20As he went to Ziklag, these men of Manasseh deserted to join him: Adnah, Jozabad, Jediael, Michael, Jozabad, Elihu, and Zillethai, chiefs of thousands in Manasseh.
21So they helped David against the bands of raiders because all of them were mighty men of valor and commanders in the army.
22For at that time, day by day, they came to help David until they became a great camp like the camp of God.[#Ge 32:2; Jos 5:14]
23Now these make up the number of the leaders equipped for the battalion who came to David at Hebron in order to turn the kingdom of Saul over to him, as the mouth of the Lord had spoken.[#2Sa 2:3–4; 1Ch 11:10]
38All these made up the men of war, arranged in ranks, who came to Hebron with a sincere heart to make David king over all Israel, along with all the rest of Israel, who with one heart, came to make David king.[#1Ki 8:61]
39Now all these were there with David three days, eating and drinking, for their brothers had made provisions for them,
40and also the ones who were as near to them as Issachar, Zebulun, and Naphtali were bringing bread on donkeys, on camels, on mules, and on oxen, food of fine flour, fig cakes, raisins, wine, oil, herds, and flocks in abundance, for there was joy in Israel.[#1Sa 25:18; 2Sa 16:1]