The Reign of David

Adina the sonne of Shiza the Reubenite, a captaine of the Reubenites, and thirtie with him,

Hanan the sonne of Maachah, and Ioshaphat the Mithnite,

Vzia the Ashterathite, Shama and Ieiel the sonnes of Otham the Aroerite,

Iediael the sonne of Shimri, and Ioha his brother the Tizite,

Eliel the Mahauite, and Ieribai and Ioshauiah the sonnes of Elnaam, and Ithmah the Moabite,

Eliel and Obed, and Iaasiel the Mesobaite.

These also are they that came to Dauid to Ziklag, while he was yet kept close, because of Saul the sonne of Kish: and they were among the valiant and helpers of the battel.

They were weaponed with bowes, and could vse the right and the left hand with stones and with arrowes and with bowes, and were of Sauls brethren, euen of Beniamin.

The chiefe were Ahiezer, and Ioash the sonnes of Shemaah a Gibeathite, and Ieziel, and Pelet the sonnes of Asinaueth, Berachah and Iehu the Antothite,

And Ishmaiah the Gibeonite, a valiant man among thirtie, and aboue the thirtie, and Ieremiah, and Iehaziel, and Iohanan, and Ioshabad the Gederathite,

Eluzai, and Ierimoth, and Bealiah, and Shemariah, and Shephatiah the Haruphite,

Elkanah, and Ishiah, and Azariel, and Ioezer, Iashobeam of Hakorehim,

And Ioelah, and Zebadiah, the sonnes of Ieroham of Gedor,

And of the Gadites there separated them selues some vnto Dauid into the holde of the wildernesse, valiant men of warre, and men of armes, and apt for battel, which coulde handle speare and shielde, and their faces were like the faces of lyons, and were like the roes in the mountaines in swiftnesse,

Ezer the chiefe, Obadiah the second, Eliab the third,

Mishmanah the fourth, Ieremiah the fift,

Attai the sixt, Eliel the seuenth,

Iohanan the eight, Elzabad the ninth,

Ieremiah the tenth, Macbannai the eleuenth.

These were the sonnes of Gad, captaines of the hoste: one of the least could resist an hundreth, and the greatest a thousand.

These are they that went ouer Iorden in the first moneth when he had filled ouer all his bankes, and put to flight all them of the valley, toward the East and the West.

And there came of the children of Beniamin, and Iudah to the hold vnto Dauid,

And Dauid went out to meete them, and answered and sayde vnto them, If yee be come peaceably vnto me to helpe me, mine heart shall be knit vnto you, but if you come to betray me to mine aduersaries, seeing there is no wickednes in mine handes, the God of our fathers beholde it, and rebuke it.

And the spirit came vpon Amasai, which was the chiefe of thirtie, and he said, Thine are we, Dauid, and with thee, O sonne of Ishai. Peace, peace be vnto thee, and peace be vnto thine helpers: for thy God helpeth thee. Then Dauid receiued them, and made them captaines of the garison.

And of Manasseh some fell to Dauid, when he came with the Philistims against Saul to battell, but they helped them not: for the Princes of the Philistims by aduisement sent him away, saying, He will fall to his master Saul for our heads.