1 Then all Israel gathered themselves to David to Hebron, saying, Behold, we are your bone and your flesh. Compare verse
2 And moreover in time past, even when Saul was king, you were he that led out and brought in Israel: and the LORD your God said to you, You shall feed my people Israel, and you shall be ruler over my people Israel. Compare verse
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. Compare verse
4 And David and all Israel went to Jerusalem, which is Jebus; where the Jebusites were, the inhabitants of the land. Compare verse1 commentary
5 And the inhabitants of Jebus said to David, You shall not come here. Nevertheless David took the castle of Zion, which is the city of David. Compare verse1 commentary
6 And David said, Whoever smites the Jebusites first shall be chief and captain. So Joab the son of Zeruiah went first up, and was chief. Compare verse
7 And David dwelled in the castle; therefore they called it the city of David. Compare verse
8 And he built the city round about, even from Millo round about: and Joab repaired the rest of the city. Compare verse
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. Compare verse
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. Compare verse
12 And after him was Eleazar the son of Dodo, the Ahohite, who was one of the three mighty men. Compare verse
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. Compare verse
14 And they set themselves in the middle of that parcel, and delivered it, and slew the Philistines; and the LORD saved them by a great deliverance. Compare verse
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. Compare verse
16 And David was then in the hold, and the Philistines' garrison was then at Bethlehem. Compare verse
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! Compare verse3 commentaries
18 And the three broke 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. Compare verse3 commentaries
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. Compare verse3 commentaries
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. Compare verse
21 Of the three, he was more honorable than the two; for he was their captain: however, he attained not to the first three. Compare verse
22 Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done many acts; he slew two lion like men of Moab: also he went down and slew a lion in a pit in a snowy day. Compare verse1 commentary
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. Compare verse
24 These things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and had the name among the three mighty men. Compare verse
25 Behold, he was honorable among the thirty, but attained not to the first three: and David set him over his guard. Compare verse
26 Also the valiant men of the armies were, Asahel the brother of Joab, Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem, Compare verse
27 Shammoth the Harorite, Helez the Pelonite, Compare verse
28 Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, Abiezer the Antothite, Compare verse
29 Sibbecai the Hushathite, Ilai the Ahohite, Compare verse
30 Maharai the Netophathite, Heled the son of Baanah the Netophathite, Compare verse
31 Ithai the son of Ribai of Gibeah, that pertained to the children of Benjamin, Benaiah the Pirathonite, Compare verse
32 Hurai of the brooks of Gaash, Abiel the Arbathite, Compare verse
33 Azmaveth the Baharumite, Eliahba the Shaalbonite, Compare verse
34 The sons of Hashem the Gizonite, Jonathan the son of Shage the Hararite, Compare verse
35 Ahiam the son of Sacar the Hararite, Eliphal the son of Ur, Compare verse
36 Hepher the Mecherathite, Ahijah the Pelonite, Compare verse
37 Hezro the Carmelite, Naarai the son of Ezbai, Compare verse
38 Joel the brother of Nathan, Mibhar the son of Haggeri, Compare verse
39 Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Berothite, the armor bearer of Joab the son of Zeruiah, Compare verse
40 Ira the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite, Compare verse
41 Uriah the Hittite, Zabad the son of Ahlai, Compare verse
42 Adina the son of Shiza the Reubenite, a captain of the Reubenites, and thirty with him, Compare verse
43 Hanan the son of Maachah, and Joshaphat the Mithnite, Compare verse
44 Uzzia the Ashterathite, Shama and Jehiel the sons of Hothan the Aroerite, Compare verse
45 Jediael the son of Shimri, and Joha his brother, the Tizite, Compare verse
46 Eliel the Mahavite, and Jeribai, and Joshaviah, the sons of Elnaam, and Ithmah the Moabite, Compare verse
47 Eliel, and Obed, and Jasiel the Mesobaite. Compare verse