Divre Hayamim Alef
(1 Chronicles)
1:1Adam, Shet, Enosh, 1:2Kenan, Mahalal'el,
Yered, 1:3Chanokh, Metushelach, Lamekh, 1:4Noach, Shem, Cham,
and Yefet.
1:5The sons of Yefet: Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Yavan,
and Tuval, and Meshekh, and Tiras. 1:6The sons of Gomer:
Ashkenaz, and Difat, and Togarmah. 1:7The sons of Yavan:
Elishah, and Tarshisha, Kittim, and Rodanim.
1:8The sons of Cham: Kush, and Mitzrayim, Put, and Kena`an.
1:9The sons of Kush: Seva, and Chavilah, and Savtah, and Ra`mah, and
Savtekha. The sons of Ra`mah: Sheva, and Dedan.
1:10Kush
became the father of Nimrod; he began to be a mighty one in the earth.
1:11Mitzrayim became the father of Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehavim, and
Naftuchim, 1:12and Patrusim, and Kasluchim (from whence came the Pelishtim), and
Kaftorim. 1:13Kena`an became the father of Tzidon his firstborn, and Chet,
1:14and the Yevusi, and the Amori, and the Girgashi,
1:15and the Chivvi, and the `Arki, and the Sini,
1:16and
the Arvadi, and the Tzemari, and the Chamati.
1:17The sons of Shem: `Elam, and Ashur, and Arpakhshad, and Lud,
and Aram, and `Utz, and Chul, and Geter, and Meshekh.
1:18Arpakhshad
became the father of Shelach, and Shelach became the father of `Ever.
1:19To `Ever were born two sons: the name of the one was Peleg; for in
his days the earth was divided; and his brother's name was Yoktan.
1:20Yoktan became the father of Almodad, and Shelef, and Chatzarmavat,
and Yerach, 1:21and Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah,
1:22and
`Eval, and Avima'el, and Sheva, 1:23and Ofir, and
Chavilah, and Yovav. All these were the sons of Yoktan.
1:24Shem, Arpakhshad, Shelach, 1:25`Ever, Peleg, Re`u,
1:26Serug, Nachor, Terach, 1:27Avram (the same is
Avraham).
1:28The sons of Avraham: Yitzchak, and Yishma'el.
1:29These are their generations: the firstborn of Yishma'el, Nevayot;
then Kedar, and Adbe'el, and Mivsam, 1:30Mishma, and Dumah,
Massa, Chadad, and Tema, 1:31Yetur, Nafish, and
Kedemah. These are the sons of Yishma'el.
1:32The sons of Keturah, Avraham's concubine: she bore Zimran, and
Yokshan, and Medan, and Midyan, and Yishbak, and Shuach. The sons of Yokshan:
Sheva, and Dedan.
1:33The sons of Midyan: `Efah, and `Efer,
and Chanokh, and Avida, and Elda`ah. All these were the sons of Keturah.
1:34Avraham became the father of Yitzchak. The sons of Yitzchak:
Esav, and Yisra'el.
1:35The sons of Esav: Elifaz, Re`u'el,
and Ye`ush, and Ya`lam, and Korach. 1:36The sons of Elifaz:
Teman, and Omar, Tzefi, and Ga`tam, Kenaz, and Timna, and `Amalek.
1:37The sons of Re`u'el: Nachat, Zerach, Shammah, and Mizzah.
1:38The sons of Se`ir: Lotan, and Shoval, and Tziv`on, and `Anah, and
Dishon, and Etzer, and Dishan. 1:39The sons of Lotan:
Chori, and Homam; and Timna was Lotan's sister.
1:40The
sons of Shoval: `Alyan, and Manachat, and `Eval, Shefi, and Onam. The sons of
Tziv`on: Ayah, and `Anah. 1:41The sons of `Anah:
Dishon. The sons of Dishon: Chamran, and Eshban, and Yitran, and Keran.
1:42The sons of Etzer: Bilhan, and Za`avan, Ya`akan. The sons of Dishan:
`Utz, and Aran.
1:43Now these are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom, before
there resigned any king over the children of Yisra'el: Bela the son of Be'or;
and the name of his city was Dinhava. 1:44Bela died, and Yovav
the son of Zerach of Botzrah reigned in his place.
1:45Yovav
died, and Chusham of the land of the Temani reigned in his place.
1:46Chusham died, and Chadad the son of Bedad, who struck Midyan in the
field of Mo'av, reigned in his place; and the name of his city was `Avit.
1:47Chadad died, and Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his place.
1:48Samlah died, and Sha'ul of Rechovot by the River reigned in his
place. 1:49Sha'ul died, and Ba`al-Chanan the son of `Akhbor reigned in his
place. 1:50Ba`al-Chanan died, and Chadad reigned in his place; and the name of
his city was Pai: and his wife's name was Mehetav'el, the daughter of Matred,
the daughter of Me-Zahav. 1:51Chadad died.
The chiefs of Edom were: chief Timna, chief
`Alvah, chief Yetet,
1:52chief Oholivamah, chief Elah, chief
Pinon, 1:53chief Kenaz, chief Teman, chief Mivtzar,
1:54chief
Magdi'el, chief `Iram. These are the chiefs of Edom.
2:1These are the sons of Yisra'el: Re'uven, Shim`on, Levi, and
Yehudah, Yissakhar, and Zevulun, 2:2Dan, Yosef, and
Binyamin, Naftali, Gad, and Asher.
2:3The sons of Yehudah: `Er, and Onan, and
Shelach; which three were born to him of Shu`a's daughter the Kena`anite. `Er,
Yehudah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the LORD; and he killed him.
2:4Tamar his daughter-in-law bore him Peretz and Zerach. All the sons
of Yehudah were five.
2:5The sons of Peretz:
Chetzron, and Chamul.
2:6The sons of Zerach: Zimri, and Etan,
and Heman, and Kalkol, and Dara; five of them in all.
2:7The
sons of Karmi: `Akar, the troubler of Yisra'el, who committed a trespass in
the devoted thing.
2:8The sons of Etan: `Azaryah.
2:9The sons also of Chetzron, who were born to him: Yerachme'el, and
Ram, and Keluvai.
2:10Ram became the father of `Amminadav,
and `Amminadav became the father of Nachshon, prince of the children of
Yehudah; 2:11and Nachshon became the father of Salma, and Salma became the father
of Bo`az, 2:12and Bo`az became the father of `Oved, and `Oved became the father of
Yishai; 2:13and Yishai became the father of his firstborn Eli'av, and Avinadav
the second, and Shim`a the third, 2:14Netan'el the fourth,
Raddai the fifth,
2:15Otzem the sixth, David the seventh;
2:16and their sisters were Tzeru'yah and Avigayil. The sons of Tzeru'yah:
Avishai, and Yo'av, and `Asa'el, three.
2:17Avigayil
bore `Amasa; and the father of `Amasa was Yeter the Yishme`elite.
2:18Kalev the son of Chetzron became the father of children of `Azuvah
his wife, and of Yeri`ot; and these were her sons: Yesher, and Shovav,
and Ardon. 2:19`Azuvah died, and Kalev took to him Efrat, who bore him Chur.
2:20Chur became the father of Uri, and Uri became the father of
Betzal'el. 2:21Afterward Chetzron went in to the daughter of Makhir the father of
Gil`ad, whom he took as wife when he was sixty years old; and she bore
him Seguv. 2:22Seguv became the father of Ya'ir, who had twenty-three cities in the
land of Gil`ad.
2:23Geshur and Aram took the towns of Ya'ir
from them, with Kenat, and the villages of it, even sixty cities. All these
were the sons of Makhir the father of Gil`ad.
2:24After that Chetzron was dead in Kalev-Efratah, then Aviyah
Chetzron's wife bore him Ashur the father of Tekoa.
2:25The sons of Yerachme'el the firstborn of Chetzron were Ram the
firstborn, and Bunah, and Oren, and Otzem, Achiyah.
2:26Yerachme'el
had another wife, whose name was `Atarah; she was the mother of Onam.
2:27The sons of Ram the firstborn of Yerachme'el were Ma`atz, and Yamin,
and `Eker. 2:28The sons of Onam were Shammai, and Yada. The sons of Shammai: Nadav,
and Avishur. 2:29The name of the wife of Avishur was Avichayil; and she bore him
Achban, and Molid.
2:30The sons of Nadav: Seled, and
Appayim; but Seled died without children.
2:31The
sons of Appayim: Yish`i. The sons of Yish`i: Sheshan. The sons of Sheshan:
Achlai. 2:32The sons of Yada the brother of Shammai: Yeter, and Yonatan; and
Yeter died without children. 2:33The sons of Yonatan:
Pelet, and Zaza. These were the sons of Yerachme'el.
2:34Now Sheshan had no sons, but daughters. Sheshan had a servant, an
Egyptian, whose name was Yarcha. 2:35Sheshan gave his
daughter to Yarcha his servant as wife; and she bore him `Attai.
2:36`Attai became the father of Natan, and Natan became the father of
Zavad, 2:37and Zavad became the father of Eflal, and Eflal became the father of
`Oved, 2:38and `Oved became the father of Yehu, and Yehu became the father of `Azaryah,
2:39and `Azaryah became the father of Cheletz, and Cheletz became the
father of El`asah,
2:40and El`asah became the father of
Sismai, and Sismai became the father of Shallum,
2:41and
Shallum became the father of Yekamyah, and Yekamyah became the father of
Elishama.
2:42The sons of Kalev the brother of Yerachme'el were Mesha his
firstborn, who was the father of Zif; and the sons of Mareshah the father of
Chevron. 2:43The sons of Chevron: Korach, and Tappuach, and Rekem, and Shema.
2:44Shema became the father of Racham, the father of Yorke`am; and Rekem
became the father of Shammai. 2:45The son of Shammai
was Ma`on; and Ma`on was the father of Beit-Tzur.
2:46`Efah,
Kalev's concubine, bore Charan, and Motzah, and Gazez; and Charan became the
father of Gazez.
2:47The sons of Yohdai: Regem, and Yotam, and
Geshan, and Pelet, and `Efah, and Sha`af.
2:48Ma`akhah,
Kalev's concubine, bore Shever and Tirchanah.
2:49She
bore also Sha`af the father of Madmannah, Sheva the father of Makhbena, and
the father of Giv'ah; and the daughter of Kalev was `Akhsah.
2:50These were the sons of Kalev.
The sons of Chur, the firstborn of Efratah:
Shoval the father of Kiryat-Ye`arim, 2:51Salma the father of
Beit-Lechem, Charef the father of Beit-Gader.
2:52Shoval
the father of Kiryat-Ye`arim had sons: Haro'e, half of the Menuchot.
2:53The families of Kiryat-Ye`arim: The Yitri, and the Puti, and the
Shumati, and the Mishra`i; of them came the Tzor`ati and the Eshta'uli.
2:54The sons of Salma: Beit-Lechem, and the Netofati, Atrot-Beit-Yo'av,
and half of the Manachati, the Tzor`i.
2:55The
families of sribes who lived at Ya`betz: the Tir`atim, the Shim`atim, the
Sukhatim. These are the Kinim who came of Chammat, the father of the house of
Rechav.
3:1Now these were the sons of David, who were born to him in Chevron:
the firstborn, Amnon, of Achino'am the Yizre`elite; the second, Daniyel, of
Avigayil the Karmelite; 3:2the third, Avshalom
the son of Ma`akhah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur; the fourth,
Adoniyahu the son of Chaggit; 3:3the fifth, Shefatyah
of Avital; the sixth, Yitre`am by `Eglah his wife:
3:4six
were born to him in Chevron; and there he reigned seven years and six months.
In Yerushalayim he reigned thirty-three years;
3:5and
these were born to him in Yerushalayim: Shim`a, and Shovav, and Natan, and
Shlomo, four, of Bat-Shua the daughter of `Ammi'el;
3:6and
Yivchar, and Elishama, and Elifelet, 3:7and Nogah, and Nefeg,
and Yafia, 3:8and Elishama, and Elyada, and Elifelet, nine.
3:9All
these were the sons of David, besides the sons of the concubines; and Tamar
was their sister.
3:10Shlomo's son was Rechav`am, Aviyah
his son, Asa his son, Yehoshafat his son,
3:11Yoram
his son, Achazyah his son, Yo'ash his son,
3:12Amatzyah
his son, `Azaryah his son, Yotam his son,
3:13Achaz
his son, Chizkiyahu his son, Menasheh his son,
3:14Amon
his son, Yoshiyahu his son. 3:15The sons of
Yoshiyahu: the firstborn Yochanan, the second Yehoiakim, the third Tzidkiyahu,
the fourth Shallum.
3:16The sons of Yehoiakim: Yekhonyah his
son, Tzidkiyahu his son. 3:17The sons of
Yekhonyah, the captive: She'alti'el his son,
3:18and
Malkiram, and Pedayahu, and Shenazzar, Yekamyah, Hoshama, and Nedavyah.
3:19The sons of Pedayahu: Zerubbavel, and Shim`i. The sons of Zerubbavel:
Meshullam, and Chananyah; and Shelomit was their sister;
3:20and Chashuvah, and Ohel, and Berekhyah, and Chasadyah, Yushav-Chesed,
five. 3:21The sons of Chananyah: Pelatyah, and Yesha`yah; the sons of Refayah,
the sons of Arnan, the sons of `Ovadyah, the sons of Shekhanyahu.
3:22The sons of Shekhanyahu: Shemayah. The sons of Shemayah: Chattush,
and Yig'al, and Bariach, and Ne`aryah, and Shafat, six.
3:23The sons of Ne`aryah: Elyo`enai, and Hizkiah, and `Azrikam, three.
3:24The sons of Elyo`enai: Hodavyah, and Elyashiv, and Pelayah, and `Akkuv,
and Yochanan, and Delayah, and `Anani, seven.
4:1The sons of Yehudah: Peretz, Chetzron, and Karmi, and Chur,
and Shoval. 4:2Re'ayah the son of Shoval became the father of Yachat; and Yachat
became the father of Achumai and Lahad. These are the families of the
Tzor`ati. 4:3These were the sons of the father of `Etam: Yizre`el, and
Yishma, and Yidbash; and the name of their sister was Hatzelelponi;
4:4and Penu'el the father of Gedor, and Etzer the father of Chushah.
These are the sons of Chur, the firstborn of Efratah, the father of
Beit-Lechem. 4:5Ashur the father of Tekoa had two wives, Chel'ah and Na`arah.
4:6Na`arah bore him Achuzzam, and Chefer, and Timni, and Achashtari.
These were the sons of Na`arah. 4:7The sons of Chel'ah
were Tzeret, Tzochar, and Etnan. 4:8Kotz became the
father of `Anuv, and Tzovevah, and the families of Acharchel the son of Harum.
4:9Ya`betz was more honorable than his brothers: and his mother named
him Ya`betz, saying, Because I bore him with sorrow.
4:10Ya`betz
called on the G-d of Yisra'el, saying, Oh that you would bless me indeed, and
enlarge my border, and that your hand might be with me, and that you would
keep me from evil, that it not be to my sorrow! G-d granted him that which he
requested. 4:11Kelub the brother of Shuchah became the father of Mechir, who was
the father of Eshton.
4:12Eshton became the father of
Beit-Rafa, and Pase'ach, and Techinnah the father of Ir-Nachash. These are
the men of Rekhah.
4:13The sons of Kenaz: `Otni'el, and
Serayah. The sons of `Otni'el: Chatat.
4:14Me`onotai
became the father of Ofrat: and Serayah became the father of Yo'av the father
of Ge-Charashim; for they were craftsmen.
4:15The
sons of Kalev the son of Yefunneh: Iru, Elah, and Na`am; and the sons of Elah;
and Kenaz. 4:16The sons of Yehallel'el: Zif, and Zifah, Tiryah, and Asar'el.
4:17The sons of Ezrah: Yeter, and Mered, and `Efer, and Yalon; and she
bore Miryam, and Shammai, and Yishbach the father of Eshtemoa.
4:18His wife Yehudiyah bore Yered the father of Gedor, and Chever the
father of Sokho, and Yekuti'el the father of Zanoach. These are the sons of
Bityah the daughter of Par`oh, whom Mered took.
4:19The
sons of the wife of Hodiyah, the sister of Nacham, were the father of Ke`ilah
the Garmite, and Eshtemoa the Ma`akhatite.
4:20The
sons of Shimon: Amnon, and Rinnah, Ben-Chanan, and Tilon. The sons of Yish`i:
Zochet, and Ben-Zochet. 4:21The sons of Shelah,
the son of Yehudah: `Er the father of Lekha, and La`adah the father of
Mareshah, and the families of the house of those who worked fine linen, of
the house of Ashbea;
4:22and Yokim, and the men of Kozeva,
and Yo'ash, and Saraf, who had dominion in Mo'av, and Yashuvi-Lechem. The
records are ancient.
4:23These were the potters, and the
inhabitants of Netaim and Gederah: there they lived with the king for his
work. 4:24The sons of Shim`on: Nemu'el, and Yamin, Yariv, Zerach, Sha'ul;
4:25Shallum his son, Mivsam his son, Mishma his son.
4:26The sons of Mishma: Hammuel his son, Zakkur his son, Shim`i his son.
4:27Shim`i had sixteen sons and six daughters; but his brothers didn't
have many children, neither did all their family multiply like the children
of Yehudah. 4:28They lived at Be'er-Sheva, and Moladah, and Chatzar-Shu`al,
4:29and at Bilhah, and at `Etzem, and at Tolad,
4:30and
at Betu'el, and at Chormah, and at Tziklag,
4:31and
at Beit-Markavot, and Chatzar-Susim, and at Beit-Bir'i, and at Sha`arayim.
These were their cities to the reign of David.
4:32Their
villages were `Etam, and `Ayin, Rimmon, and Tokhen, and `Ashan, five cities;
4:33and all their villages that were round about the same cities, to
Ba`al. These were their habitations, and they have their genealogy.
4:34Meshovav, and Yamlekh, and Yoshah the son of Amatzyah,
4:35and Yo'el, and Yehu the son of Yoshivyah, the son of Serayah, the
son of `Asi'el,
4:36and Elyo`enai, and Ya`akovah, and
Yeshochayah, and `Asayah, and `Adi'el, and Yesimi'el, and Benayah,
4:37and Ziza the son of Shif`i, the son of Allon, the son of Yedayah,
the son of Shimri, the son of Shemayah--4:38these
mentioned by name were princes in their families: and their fathers' houses
increased greatly.
4:39They went to the entrance of Gedor,
even to the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks.
4:40They found fat pasture and good, and the land was wide, and quiet,
and peaceable; for those who lived there before were of Cham.
4:41These written by name came in the days of Chizkiyahu king of
Yehudah, and struck their tents, and the Me`unim who were found there, and
destroyed them utterly to this day, and lived in their place; because there
was pasture there for their flocks. 4:42Some of them, even
of the sons of Shim`on, five hundred men, went to Mount Se`ir, having for
their captains Pelatyah, and Ne`aryah, and Refayah, and `Uzzi'el, the sons of
Yish`i. 4:43They struck the remnant of the `Amaleki who escaped, and have lived
there to this day.
5:1The sons of Re'uven the firstborn of
Yisra'el (for he was the firstborn; but, because he defiled his father's
couch, his birthright was given to the sons of Yosef the son of Yisra'el; and
the genealogy is not to be reckoned after the birthright.
5:2For Yehudah prevailed above his brothers, and of him came the
prince; but the birthright was Yosef's:)
5:3the
sons of Re'uven the firstborn of Yisra'el: Chanokh, and Pallu, Chetzron, and
Karmi. 5:4The sons of Yo'el: Shemayah his son, Gog his son, Shim`i his son,
5:5Mikhah his son, Re'ayah his son, Ba`al his son,
5:6Be'erah his son, whom Tilgat-Pilne'eser king of Ashur carried away
captive: he was prince of the Re'uveni.
5:7His
brothers by their families, when the genealogy of their generations was
reckoned: the chief, Ye`i'el, and Zekharyah,
5:8and
Bela the son of Azaz, the son of Shema, the son of Yo'el, who lived in `Aro`er,
even to Nevo and Ba`al-Me`on: 5:9and eastward he lived
even to the entrance of the wilderness from the river Perat, because their
livestock were multiplied in the land of Gil`ad.
5:10In
the days of Sha'ul, they made war with the Hagrim, who fell by their hand;
and they lived in their tents throughout all the land east of Gil`ad.
5:11The sons of Gad lived over against them, in the land of Bashan to
Salkhah: 5:12Yo'el the chief, and Shafam the second, and Ya`nai, and Shafat in
Bashan. 5:13Their brothers of their fathers' houses: Mikha'el, and Meshullam,
and Sheva, and Yorai, and Ya`kan, and Zia, and `Ever, seven.
5:14These were the sons of Avichayil, the son of Churi, the son of
Yao`ach, the son of Gil`ad, the son of Mikha'el, the son of Yeshishai, the
son of Yachdo, the son of Buz; 5:15Achi the son of `Avdi'el,
the son of Guni, chief of their fathers' houses.
5:16They
lived in Gil`ad in Bashan, and in its towns, and in all the suburbs of
Sharon, as far as their borders. 5:17All these were
reckoned by genealogies in the days of Yotam king of Yehudah, and in the days
of Yarov`am king of Yisra'el. 5:18The sons of Re'uven,
and the Gadi, and the half-tribe of Menasheh, of valiant men, men able to
bear buckler and sword, and to shoot with bow, and skillful in war, were
forty-four thousand seven hundred and sixty, that were able to go forth to
war. 5:19They made war with the Hagrim, with Yetur, and Nafish, and Nodav.
5:20They were helped against them, and the Hagrim were delivered into
their hand, and all who were with them; for they cried to G-d in the battle,
and he was entreated of them, because they put their trust in him.
5:21They took away their livestock; of their camels fifty thousand, and
of sheep two hundred fifty thousand, and of donkeys two thousand, and of men
one hundred thousand.
5:22For there fell many slain, because
the war was of G-d. They lived in their place until the captivity.
5:23The children of the half-tribe of Menasheh lived in the land: they
increased from Bashan to Ba`al-Chermon and Senir and Mount Chermon.
5:24These were the heads of their fathers' houses: even `Efer, and
Yish`i, and Eli'el, and `Azri'el, and Yirmeyahu, and Hodavyah, and Yachdi'el,
mighty men of valor, famous men, heads of their fathers' houses.
5:25They trespassed against the G-d of their fathers, and played the
prostitute after the gods of the peoples of the land, whom G-d destroyed
before them. 5:26The G-d of Yisra'el stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Ashur, and
the spirit of Tilgat-Pilne'eser king of Ashur, and he carried them away, even
the Re'uveni, and the Gadi, and the half-tribe of Menasheh, and brought them
to Chalach, and Chavor, and Hara, and to the river of Gozan, to this day.
6:1The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kehat, and Merari.
6:2The
sons of Kehat: `Amram, Yitzhar, and Chevron, and `Uzzi'el.
6:3The children of `Amram: Aharon, and Moshe, and Miryam. The sons of
Aharon: Nadav, and Avihu, El`azar, and Itamar.
6:4El`azar
became the father of Pinechas, Pinechas became the father of Avishua,
6:5and Avishua became the father of Bukki, and Bukki became the father
of `Uzzi, 6:6and `Uzzi became the father of Zerachyah, and Zerachyah became the
father of Merayot,
6:7Merayot became the father of Amaryah,
and Amaryah became the father of Achituv,
6:8and
Achituv became the father of Tzadok, and Tzadok became the father of
Achima`atz, 6:9and Achima`atz became the father of `Azaryah, and `Azaryah became
the father of Yochanan, 6:10and Yochanan became
the father of `Azaryah, (he it is who executed the kohen's
office in the house that Shlomo built in Yerushalayim),
6:11and `Azaryah became the father of Amaryah, and Amaryah became the
father of Achituv,
6:12and Achituv became the father of
Tzadok, and Tzadok became the father of Shallum,
6:13and
Shallum became the father of Chilkiyah, and Chilkiyah became the father of `Azaryah,
6:14and `Azaryah became the father of Serayah, and Serayah became the
father of Yehotzadak;
6:15Yehotzadak went into captivity,
when the LORD carried away Yehudah and Yerushalayim by the hand of
Nevukhadnetzar.
6:16The sons of Levi: Gershom, Kehat, and
Merari. 6:17These are the names of the sons of Gershom: Livni and Shim`i.
6:18The sons of Kehat were `Amram, and Yitzhar, and Chevron, and `Uzzi'el.
6:19The sons of Merari: Machli and Mushi. These are the families of the
Levites according to their fathers' houses.
6:20Of
Gershom: Livni his son, Yachat his son, Zimmah his son,
6:21Yo'ach his son, `Iddo his son, Zerach his son, Ye'aterai his son.
6:22The sons of Kehat: `Amminadav his son, Korach his son, Assir his
son, 6:23Elkana his son, and Avi'asaf his son, and Assir his son,
6:24Tachat his son, Uri'el his son, `Uzziyah his son, and Sha'ul his
son. 6:25The sons of Elkana: `Amasai, and Achimot.
6:26As
for Elkana, the sons of Elkana: Tzafai his son, and Nachat his son,
6:27Eli'av his son, Yerocham his son, Elkana his son.
6:28The sons of Shemu'el: the firstborn Yo'el, and the second
Aviyah. 6:29The sons of Merari: Machli, Livni his son, Shim`i his son, Uzzah his
son, 6:30Shim`a his son, Chaggiyah his son, `Asayah his son.
6:31These are they whom David set over the service of song in the house
of the LORD, after that the ark had rest.
6:32They
ministered with song before the tent of the tent of meeting, until Shlomo had
built the house of the LORD in Yerushalayim: and they waited on their office
according to their order. 6:33These are those who
waited, and their sons. Of the sons of the Kehati: Heman the singer, the son
of Yo'el, the son of Shemu'el, 6:34the son of Elkana,
the son of Yerocham, the son of Eli'el, the son of To'ach,
6:35the son of Tzuf, the son of Elkana, the son of Machat, the son of `Amasai,
6:36the son of Elkana, the son of Yo'el, the son of `Azaryah, the son of
Tzefanyah, 6:37the son of Tachat, the son of Assir, the son of Avi'asaf, the son of
Korach, 6:38the son of Yitzhar, the son of Kehat, the son of Levi, the son of
Yisra'el. 6:39His brother Asaf, who stood on his right hand, even Asaf the son of
Berekhyah, the son of Shim`a, 6:40the son of Mikha'el,
the son of Ba`aseyah, the son of Malkiyah,
6:41the
son of Etni, the son of Zerach, the son of `Adayah,
6:42the
son of Etan, the son of Zimmah, the son of Shim`i,
6:43the
son of Yachat, the son of Gershom, the son of Levi.
6:44On
the left hand their brothers the sons of Merari: Etan the son of Kishi, the
son of `Avdi, the son of Mallukh, 6:45the son of
Chashavyah, the son of Amatzyah, the son of Chilkiyah,
6:46the son of Amtzi, the son of Bani, the son of Shemer,
6:47the son of Machli, the son of Mushi, the son of Merari, the son of
Levi. 6:48Their brothers the Levites were appointed for all the service of the
tent of the house of G-d. 6:49But Aharon and his
sons offered on the altar of burnt offering, and on the altar of incense, for
all the work of the most holy place, and to make atonement for Yisra'el,
according to all that Moshe the servant of G-d had commanded.
6:50These are the sons of Aharon: El`azar his son, Pinechas his son,
Avishua his son,
6:51Bukki his son, `Uzzi his son, Zerachyah
his son, 6:52Merayot his son, Amaryah his son, Achituv his son,
6:53Tzadok his son, Achima`atz his son.
6:54Now
these are their dwelling places according to their encampments in their
borders: to the sons of Aharon, of the families of the Kehati (for theirs was
the first lot), 6:55to them they gave
Chevron in the land of Yehudah, and the suburbs of it round about it;
6:56but the fields of the city, and the villages of it, they gave to
Kalev the son of Yefunneh. 6:57To the sons of
Aharon they gave the cities of refuge, Chevron; Livna also with its suburbs,
and Yattir, and Eshtemoa with its suburbs,
6:58and
Chilen with its suburbs, Devir with its suburbs,
6:59and
`Ashan with its suburbs, and Beth Shemesh with its suburbs;
6:60and out of the tribe of Binyamin, Geva with its suburbs, and `Allemet
with its suburbs, and `Anatot with its suburbs. All their cities throughout
their families were thirteen cities. 6:61To the rest of the
sons of Kehat were given by lot, out of the family of the tribe, out
of the half-tribe, the half of Menasheh, ten cities.
6:62To
the sons of Gershom, according to their families, out of the tribe of
Yissakhar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out of the tribe of Naftali,
and out of the tribe of Menasheh in Bashan, thirteen cities.
6:63To the sons of Merari were given by lot, according to their
families, out of the tribe of Re'uven, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out
of the tribe of Zevulun, twelve cities.
6:64The
children of Yisra'el gave to the Levites the cities with their suburbs.
6:65They gave by lot out of the tribe of the children of Yehudah, and
out of the tribe of the children of Shim`on, and out of the tribe of the
children of Binyamin, these cities which are mentioned by name.
6:66Some of the families of the sons of Kehat had cities of their
borders out of the tribe of Efrayim. 6:67They gave to them
the cities of refuge, Shekhem in the hill country of Efrayim with its
suburbs; Gezer also with its suburbs, 6:68and Yokme`am with
its suburbs, and Beit-Choron with its suburbs,
6:69and
Ayalon with its suburbs, and Gat Rimmon with its suburbs;
6:70and out of the half-tribe of Menasheh, `Aner with its suburbs, and
Bil`am with its suburbs, for the rest of the family of the sons of Kehat.
6:71To the sons of Gershom were given, out of the family of the
half-tribe of Menasheh, Galon in Bashan with its suburbs, and `Ashtarot with
its suburbs; 6:72and out of the tribe of Yissakhar, Kedesh with its suburbs, Daverat
with its suburbs,
6:73and Ramot with its suburbs, and `Anam
with its suburbs;
6:74and out of the tribe of Asher,
Mashal with its suburbs, and `Avdon with its suburbs,
6:75and
Chukok with its suburbs, and Rechov with its suburbs;
6:76and
out of the tribe of Naftali, Kedesh in the Galil with its suburbs, and
Chammon with its suburbs, and Kiryatayim with its suburbs.
6:77To the rest of the Levites, the sons of Merari, were given,
out of the tribe of Zevulun, Rimmono with its suburbs, Tavor with its
suburbs; 6:78and beyond the Yarden at Yericho, on the east side of the Yarden,
were given them, out of the tribe of Re'uven, Betzer in the wilderness
with its suburbs, and Yahtzah with its suburbs,
6:79and
Kedemot with its suburbs, and Mefa`at with its suburbs;
6:80and out of the tribe of Gad, Ramot in Gil`ad with its suburbs, and
Machanayim with its suburbs, 6:81and Cheshbon with
its suburbs, and Ya`zer with its suburbs.
7:1Of the sons of Yissakhar: Tola, and Pu`ah, Yashuv, and Shimron,
four. 7:2The sons of Tola: `Uzzi, and Refayah, and Yeri'el, and Yachmai, and
Yivsam, and Shemu'el, heads of their fathers' houses, to wit, of Tola;
mighty men of valor in their generations: their number in the days of David
was twenty-two thousand six hundred. 7:3The sons of `Uzzi:
Yizrachyah. The sons of Yizrachyah: Mikha'el, and `Ovadyah, and Yo'el,
Yishiyah, five; all of them chief men. 7:4With them, by their
generations, after their fathers' houses, were bands of the army for war,
thirty-six thousand; for they had many wives and sons.
7:5Their
brothers among all the families of Yissakhar, mighty men of valor, reckoned
in all by genealogy, were eighty-seven thousand.
7:6The
sons of Binyamin: Bela, and Bekher, and Yedi`a'el,
three. 7:7The sons of Bela: Etzbon, and `Uzzi, and `Uzzi'el, and Yerimot, and
Iri, five; heads of fathers' houses, mighty men of valor; and they were
reckoned by genealogy twenty-two thousand thirty-four.
7:8The
sons of Bekher: Zemirah, and Yo'ash, and Eli`ezer, and Elyo`enai, and `Omri,
and Yeremot, and Aviyah, and `Anatot, and `Alemet. All these were the sons of
Bekher. 7:9They were reckoned by genealogy, after their generations, heads of
their fathers' houses, mighty men of valor, twenty thousand two hundred.
7:10The sons of Yedi`a'el: Bilhan. The sons of Bilhan: Ye`ush, and
Binyamin, and Ehud, and Kena`anah, and Zetan, and Tarshish, and Achishachar.
7:11All these were sons of Yedi`a'el, according to the heads of their
fathers' houses, mighty men of valor, seventeen thousand and two
hundred, who were able to go forth in the army for war.
7:12Shuppim also, and Chuppim, the sons of Ir, Chushim, the sons of
Acher. 7:13The sons of Naftali: Yachtziel, and Guni, and Yetzer, and Shallum,
the sons of Bilhah.
7:14The sons of Menasheh: Asri'el, whom
his concubine the Arammian bore: she bore Makhir the father of Gil`ad:
7:15and Makhir took a wife of Chuppim and Shuppim, whose sister's name
was Ma`akhah; and the name of the second was Tzelohchad: and Tzelohchad had
daughters. 7:16Ma`akhah the wife of Makhir bore a son, and she named him Peresh;
and the name of his brother was Sheresh; and his sons were Ulam and Rakem.
7:17The sons of Ulam: Bedan. These were the sons of Gil`ad the son of
Makhir, the son of Menasheh. 7:18His sister
Hammolekhet bore Ishhod, and Avi-Ezer, and Machlah.
7:19The
sons of Shemida were Achyan, and Shekhem, and Likchi, and Ani`am.
7:20The sons of Efrayim: Shutelach, and Bered his son, and Tachat his
son, and El'adah his son, and Tachat his son,
7:21and
Zavad his son, and Shutelach his son, and Etzer, and El'ad, whom the men of
Gat who were born in the land killed, because they came down to take away
their livestock.
7:22Efrayim their father mourned many days,
and his brothers came to comfort him. 7:23He went in to his
wife, and she conceived, and bore a son, and he named him Beri`ah, because it
went evil with his house. 7:24His daughter was
She'erah, who built Beit-Choron the lower and the upper, and Uzzen-She'erah.
7:25Refach was his son, and Reshef, and Telach his son, and Tachan his
son, 7:26La`dan his son, `Ammihud his son, Elishama his son,
7:27Nun his son, Yehoshua his son.
7:28Their
possessions and habitations were Beit-El and the towns of it, and eastward
Naaran, and westward Gezer, with the towns of it; Shekhem also and the towns
of it, to Azzah and the towns of it; 7:29and by the borders
of the children of Menasheh, Beth Shean and its towns, Ta`nakh and its towns,
Megiddo and its towns, Dor and its towns. In these lived the children of
Yosef the son of Yisra'el. 7:30The sons of Asher:
Yimna, and Yishvah, and Yishvi, and Beri`ah, and Serach their sister.
7:31The sons of Beri`ah: Chever, and Malki'el, who was the father of
Birzaith. 7:32Chever became the father of Yaflet, and Shomer, and Chotam, and
Shu`a their sister.
7:33The sons of Yaflet: Pasach, and
Bimhal, and `Asvat. These are the children of Yaflet.
7:34The
sons of Shemer: Achi, and Rohgah, Chubbah, and Aram.
7:35The
sons of Chelem his brother: Tzofach, and Yimna, and Shelesh, and Amal.
7:36The sons of Tzofach: Su'ach, and Charnefer, and Shual, and Ber, and
Yimrah, 7:37Betzer, and Hod, and Shamma, and Shilshah, and Yitran, and Beera.
7:38The sons of Yeter: Yefunneh, and Pispa, and Ara.
7:39The sons of Ulla: Arach, and Channi'el, and Ritzyah.
7:40All these were the children of Asher, heads of the fathers' houses,
choice and mighty men of valor, chief of the princes. The number of them
reckoned by genealogy for service in war was twenty-six thousand men.
8:1Binyamin became the father of Bela his firstborn, Ashbel the second,
and Achrach the third,
8:2Nochah the fourth, and Rapha the
fifth. 8:3Bela had sons: Addar, and Gera, and Avihud,
8:4and
Avishua, and Na`aman, and Achoach, 8:5and Gera, and
Shefufan, and Churam.
8:6These are the sons of Echud: these
are the heads of fathers' houses of the inhabitants of Geva, and they
carried them captive to Manachat: 8:7and Na`aman, and
Achiyah, and Gera, he carried them captive: and he became the father of Uzza
and Achichud. 8:8Shacharayim became the father of children in the field of Mo'av,
after he had sent them away; Chushim and Ba`ara were his wives.
8:9He became the father of Chodesh his wife, Yovav, and Tzivyah, and
Mesha, and Malkam,
8:10and Ye`utz, and Sokhyah, and Mirmah.
These were his sons, heads of fathers' houses.
8:11Of
Chushim he became the father of Avituv and Elpa`al.
8:12The
sons of Elpa`al: `Ever, and Mish`am, and Shemed, who built Ono and Lod, with
the towns of it;
8:13and Beri`ah, and Shema, who were heads of
fathers' houses of the inhabitants of Ayalon, who put to flight the
inhabitants of Gat;
8:14and Achyo, Shashak, and Yeremot,
8:15and Zevadyah, and `Arad, and `Eder,
8:16and
Mikha'el, and Yishpah, and Yocha, the sons of Beri`ah,
8:17and Zevadyah, and Meshullam, and Chizki, and Chever,
8:18and Ishmerai, and Yizli'ah, and Yovav, the sons of Elpa`al,
8:19and Yakim, and Zikhri, and Zavdi,
8:20and
Eli`esenai, and Tzilletai, and Eli'el,
8:21and
`Adayah, and Berayah, and Shimrat, the sons of Shim`i,
8:22and Yishpan, and `Ever, and Eli'el,
8:23and
`Avdon, and Zikhri, and Chanan, 8:24and Chananyah, and
`Elam, and `Antotiyah, 8:25and Yifdeyah, and
Penu'el, the sons of Shashak, 8:26and Shamsherai, and
Shecharyah, and `Atalyah, 8:27and Ya`areshyah, and
Eliyahu, and Zikhri, the sons of Yerocham.
8:28These
were heads of fathers' houses throughout their generations, chief men:
these lived in Yerushalayim. 8:29In Giv`on there
lived the father of Giv`on, Ye`i'el, whose wife's name was Ma`akhah;
8:30and his firstborn son `Avdon, and Tzur, and Kish, and Ba`al, and
Nadav, 8:31and Gedor, and Achyo, and Zekher.
8:32Miklot
became the father of Shim`a. They also lived with their brothers in
Yerushalayim, over against their brothers.
8:33Ner
became the father of Kish; and Kish became the father of Sha'ul; and Sha'ul
became the father of Yonatan, and Malki-Shua, and Avinadav, and Eshba`al.
8:34The son of Yonatan was Meriv-Ba`al; and Meriv-Ba`al became the
father of Mikhah.
8:35The sons of Mikhah: Piton, and
Melekh, and Ta'rea, and Achaz. 8:36Achaz became the
father of Yeho`addah; and Yeho`addah became the father of `Alemet, and `Azmavet,
and Zimri; and Zimri became the father of Motzah.
8:37Motzah
became the father of Bin`a; Rafah was his son, El`asah his son, Atzel his
son. 8:38Atzel had six sons, whose names are these: `Azrikam, Bokhru, and
Yishma'el, and She`aryah, and `Ovadyah, and Chanan. All these were the sons
of Atzel. 8:39The sons of Eshek his brother: Ulam his firstborn, Ye`ush the
second, and Elifelet the third. 8:40The sons of Ulam
were mighty men of valor, archers, and had many sons, and sons' sons, one
hundred fifty. All these were of the sons of Binyamin.
9:1So all Yisra'el were reckoned by genealogies; and behold, they are
written in the book of the kings of Yisra'el: and Yehudah was carried away
captive to Bavel for their disobedience.
9:2Now
the first inhabitants who lived in their possessions in their cities were
Yisra'el, the kohanim, the Levites, and the temple
servants. 9:3In Yerushalayim lived of the children of Yehudah, and of the
children of Binyamin, and of the children of Efrayim and Menasheh:
9:4`Utai the son of `Ammihud, the son of `Omri, the son of Imri, the
son of Bani, of the children of Peretz the son of Yehudah.
9:5Of the Shiloni: `Asayah the firstborn, and his sons.
9:6Of the sons of Zerach: Ye`u'el, and their brothers, six hundred
ninety. 9:7Of the sons of Binyamin: Sallu the son of Meshullam, the son of
Hodavyah, the son of Senu'ah, 9:8and Yivneyah the son
of Yerocham, and Elah the son of `Uzzi, the son of Mikhri, and Meshullam the
son of Shefatyah, the son of Re`u'el, the son of Yivniyah;
9:9and their brothers, according to their generations, nine hundred
fifty-six. All these men were heads of fathers' houses by their
fathers' houses.
9:10Of the kohanim: Yedayah,
and Yehoiariv, Yakhin, 9:11and `Azaryah the son
of Chilkiyah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Tzadok, the son of Merayot,
the son of Achituv, the ruler of the house of G-d;
9:12and
`Adayah the son of Yerocham, the son of Pashchur, the son of Malkiyah, and
Ma`asai the son of `Adi'el, the son of Yachzerah, the son of Meshullam, the
son of Meshillemit, the son of Immer; 9:13and their brothers,
heads of their fathers' houses, one thousand seven hundred sixty; very able
men for the work of the service of the house of G-d.
9:14Of
the Levites: Shemayah the son of Chashuv, the son of `Azrikam, the son of
Chashavyah, of the sons of Merari; 9:15and Bakbakkar,
Cheresh, and Galal, and Mattanyah the son of Mikha, the son of Zikhri, the
son of Asaf, 9:16and `Ovadyah the son of Shemayah, the son of Galal, the son of
Yedutun, and Berekhyah the son of Asa, the son of Elkana, who lived in the
villages of the Netofati. 9:17The porters: Shallum,
and `Akkuv, and Talmon, and Achiman, and their brothers (Shallum was the
chief), 9:18who hitherto waited in the king's gate eastward: they were
the porters for the camp of the children of Levi.
9:19Shallum
the son of Kore, the son of Avi'asaf, the son of Korach, and his brothers, of
his father's house, the Korchi, were over the work of the service, keepers of
the thresholds of the tent: and their fathers had been over the camp of the
LORD, keepers of the entry. 9:20Pinechas the son of
El`azar was ruler over them in time past, and the LORD was with him.
9:21Zekharyah the son of Meshelemyah was porter of the door of the tent
of meeting. 9:22All these who were chosen to be porters in the thresholds were two
hundred and twelve. These were reckoned by genealogy in their villages, whom
David and Shemu'el the seer did ordain in their office of trust.
9:23So they and their children had the oversight of the gates of the
house of the LORD, even the house of the tent, by wards.
9:24On the four sides were the porters, toward the east, west, north,
and south. 9:25Their brothers, in their villages, were to come in every seven days
from time to time to be with them: 9:26for the four chief
porters, who were Levites, were in an office of trust, and were over the
chambers and over the treasuries in the house of G-d.
9:27They
lodged round about the house of G-d, because the charge of it was on
them; and to them pertained the opening of it morning by morning.
9:28Certain of them had charge of the vessels of service; for by count
were these brought in and by count were these taken out.
9:29Some of them also were appointed over the furniture, and over all
the vessels of the sanctuary, and over the fine flour, and the wine, and the
oil, and the frankincense, and the spices.
9:30Some
of the sons of the kohanim prepared the confection of the
spices. 9:31Mattityah, one of the Levites, who was the firstborn of Shallum the
Korchite, had the office of trust over the things that were baked in pans.
9:32Some of their brothers, of the sons of the Kehati, were over the
show bread, to prepare it every Shabbat.
9:33These
are the singers, heads of fathers' houses of the Levites, who lived
in the chambers and were free from other service; for they were
employed in their work day and night. 9:34These were heads of
fathers' houses of the Levites, throughout their generations, chief
men: these lived at Yerushalayim. 9:35In Giv`on there
lived the father of Giv`on, Ye`i'el, whose wife's name was Ma`akhah:
9:36and his firstborn son `Avdon, and Tzur, and Kish, and Ba`al, and Ner,
and Nadav, 9:37and Gedor, and Achyo, and Zekharyah, and Miklot.
9:38Miklot became the father of Shim'am. They also lived with their
brothers in Yerushalayim, over against their brothers.
9:39Ner became the father of Kish; and Kish became the father of Sha'ul;
and Sha'ul became the father of Yonatan, and Malki-Shua, and Avinadav, and
Eshba`al. 9:40The son of Yonatan was Meriv-Ba`al; and Meriv-Ba`al became the
father of Mikhah.
9:41The sons of Mikhah: Piton, and
Melekh, and Tachre`a, and Achaz.
9:42Achaz
became the father of Ya`rah; and Ya`rah became the father of `Alemet, and `Azmavet,
and Zimri; and Zimri became the father of Motzah;
9:43and
Motzah became the father of Bin`a; and Refayah his son, El`asah his son,
Atzel his son.
9:44Atzel had six sons, whose names are
these: `Azrikam, Bokhru, and Yishma'el, and She`aryah, and `Ovadyah, and
Chanan: these were the sons of Atzel.
10:1Now the Pelishtim fought against Yisra'el: and the men of Yisra'el
fled from before the Pelishtim, and fell down slain on Mount Gilboa.
10:2The Pelishtim followed hard after Sha'ul and after his sons; and the
Pelishtim killed Yonatan, and Avinadav, and Malki-Shua, the sons of Sha'ul.
10:3The battle went sore against Sha'ul, and the archers overtook him;
and he was distressed by reason of the archers.
10:4Then
said Sha'ul to his armor bearer, Draw your sword, and thrust me through
therewith, lest these uncircumcised come and abuse me. But his armor bearer
would not; for he was sore afraid. Therefore Sha'ul took his sword, and fell
on it. 10:5When his armor bearer saw that Sha'ul was dead, he likewise fell on
his sword, and died.
10:6So Sha'ul died, and his three sons;
and all his house died together. 10:7When all the men of
Yisra'el who were in the valley saw that they fled, and that Sha'ul and his
sons were dead, they forsook their cities, and fled; and the Pelishtim came
and lived in them.
10:8It happened on the next day, when
the Pelishtim came to strip the slain, that they found Sha'ul and his sons
fallen on Mount Gilboa. 10:9They stripped him,
and took his head, and his armor, and sent into the land of the Pelishtim
round about, to carry the news to their idols, and to the people.
10:10They put his armor in the house of their gods, and fastened his head
in the house of Dagon. 10:11When all
Yavesh-Gil`ad heard all that the Pelishtim had done to Sha'ul,
10:12all the valiant men arose, and took away the body of Sha'ul, and the
bodies of his sons, and brought them to Yavesh, and buried their bones under
the oak in Yavesh, and fasted seven days.
10:13So
Sha'ul died for his trespass which he committed against the LORD, because of
the word of the LORD, which he didn't keep; and also because he asked counsel
of one who had a familiar spirit, to inquire thereby,
10:14and didn't inquire of the LORD: therefore he killed him, and turned
the kingdom to David the son of Yishai.
11:1Then all Yisra'el gathered themselves to David to Chevron, saying,
Behold, we are your bone and your flesh.
11:2In
times past, even when Sha'ul was king, it was you who led out and brought in
Yisra'el: and the LORD your G-d said to you, You shall be shepherd of my
people Yisra'el, and you shall be prince over my people Yisra'el.
11:3So all the elders of Yisra'el came to the king to Chevron; and David
made a covenant with them in Chevron before the LORD; and they anointed David
king over Yisra'el, according to the word of the LORD by Shemu'el.
11:4David and all Yisra'el went to Yerushalayim (the same is Yevus); and
the Yevusi, the inhabitants of the land, were there.
11:5The
inhabitants of Yevus said to David, You shall not come in here. Nevertheless
David took the stronghold of Tziyon; the same is the city of David.
11:6David said, Whoever strikes the Yevusi first shall be chief and
captain. Yo'av the son of Tzeru'yah went up first, and was made chief.
11:7David lived in the stronghold; therefore they called it the city of
David. 11:8He built the city round about, from Millo even round about; and
Yo'av repaired the rest of the city. 11:9David grew greater
and greater; for the LORD of Armies was with him.
11:10Now
these are the chief of the mighty men whom David had, who shown themselves
strong with him in his kingdom, together with all Yisra'el, to make him king,
according to the word of the LORD concerning Yisra'el.
11:11This is the number of the mighty men whom David had: Yashov`am, the
son of a Chakhmoni, the chief of the thirty; he lifted up his spear against
three hundred and killed them at one time.
11:12After
him was El`azar the son of Dodo, the Achochi, who was one of the three mighty
men. 11:13He was with David at Pas-Dammim, and there the Pelishtim were
gathered together to battle, where was a plot of ground full of barley; and
the people fled from before the Pelishtim.
11:14They
stood in the midst of the plot, and defended it, and killed the Pelishtim;
and the LORD saved them by a great victory.
11:15Three
of the thirty chief men went down to the rock to David, into the cave of `Adullam;
and the army of the Pelishtim were encamped in the valley of Refa'im.
11:16David was then in the stronghold, and the garrison of the Pelishtim
was then in Beit-Lechem. 11:17David longed, and
said, Oh that one would give me water to drink of the well of Beit-Lechem,
which is by the gate! 11:18The three broke
through the army of the Pelishtim, and drew water out of the well of
Beit-Lechem, 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,
11:19and said, My G-d forbid it me, that I should do this: shall I drink
the blood of these men who 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 the three mighty men.
11:20Avishai,
the brother of Yo'av, he was chief of the three; for he lifted up his spear
against three hundred and killed them, and had a name among the three.
11:21Of the three, he was more honorable than the two, and was made their
captain: however he didn't attain to the first three.
11:22Benayah the son of Yehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kavtz'el,
who had done mighty deeds, he killed the two sons of Ari'el of Mo'av:
he went down also and killed a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow.
11:23He killed 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
killed him with his own spear. 11:24These things did
Benayah the son of Yehoiada, and had a name among the three mighty men.
11:25Behold, he was more honorable than the thirty, but he didn't attain
to the first three: and David set him over his guard.
11:26Also the mighty men of the armies: `Asa'el the brother of Yo'av,
Elchanan the son of Dodo of Beit-Lechem,
11:27Shammot
the Harorite, Cheletz the Pelonite, 11:28`Ira the son of `Ikkesh
the Tekoite, Avi-Ezer the `Antotite, 11:29Sibbekhai the
Chushatite, Ilai the Achochi, 11:30Maharai the
Netofatite, Cheled the son of Ba`anah the Netofatite,
11:31Itai the son of Rivai of Gevah of the children of Binyamin, Benayah
the Pir`atonite,
11:32Churai of the brooks of Ga`ash,
Aviel the `Arvati,
11:33`Azmavet the Baharumite, Elyachba
the Sha`alvonite,
11:34the sons of Hashem the Gizonite,
Yonatan the son of Shagee the Harari,
11:35Achi'am
the son of Sacar the Harari, Eliphal the son of Ur,
11:36Chefer
the Mekheratite, Achiyah the Pelonite,
11:37Chetzro
the Karmelite, Na`arai the son of Ezbai,
11:38Yo'el
the brother of Natan, Mivchar the son of Hagri,
11:39Tzelek
the `Ammonite, Naharai the Berothite, the armor bearer of Yo'av the son of
Tzeru'yah, 11:40`Ira the Yitri, Garev the Yitri,
11:41Uriyah
the Chittite, Zavad the son of Achlai,
11:42`Adina
the son of Shiza the Reubenite, a chief of the Re'uveni, and thirty with him,
11:43Chanan the son of Ma`akhah, and Yoshafat the Mitni,
11:44Uzzia the `Ashterati, Shama and Ye`i'el the sons of Chotam the `Aro`eri,
11:45Yedi`a'el the son of Shimri, and Yocha his brother, the Titzi,
11:46Eli'el the Machavim, and Yerivai, and Yoshavyah, the sons of Elnaam,
and Yitmah the Mo'avite, 11:47Eli'el, and `Oved,
and Ya`asi'el the Mezobaite.
12:1Now these are those who came to David to Tziklag, while he yet kept
himself close because of Sha'ul the son of Kish; and they were among the
mighty men, his helpers in war. 12:2They were armed with
bows, and could use both the right hand and the left in slinging stones and
in shooting arrows from the bow: they were of Sha'ul's brothers of Binyamin.
12:3The chief was Achi`ezer; then Yo'ash, the sons of Shema`ah the
Giv`atite, and Yezi'el, and Pelet, the sons of `Azmavet, and Berakha, and
Yehu the `Antotite,
12:4and Yishma`yahu the Giv`oni, a
mighty man among the thirty, and over the thirty, and Yirmeyahu, and
Yachazi'el, and Yochanan, and Yozavad the Gederatite,
12:5Eluzai,
and Yerimot, and Bealiah, and Shemaryahu, and Shefatyah the Charufite,
12:6Elkana, and Yishiyah, and `Azar'el, and Yoezer, and Yashov`am, the
Korchi, 12:7and Yo`elah, and Zevadyah, the sons of Yerocham of Gedor.
12:8Of the Gadi there separated themselves to David to the stronghold in
the wilderness, mighty men of valor, men trained for war, that could handle
shield and spear; whose faces were like the faces of lions, and they were as
swift as the roes on the mountains; 12:9Etzer the chief, `Ovadyah
the second, Eli'av the third, 12:10Mishmannah the
fourth, Yirmeyahu the fifth, 12:11`Attai the sixth,
Eli'el the seventh,
12:12Yochanan the eighth, Elzavad the
ninth, 12:13Yirmeyahu the tenth, Makhbannai the eleventh.
12:14These of the sons of Gad were captains of the army: he who was least
was equal to one hundred, and the greatest to one thousand.
12:15These are those who went over the Yarden in the first month, when it
had overflowed all its banks; and they put to flight all them of the valleys,
both toward the east, and toward the west.
12:16There
came of the children of Binyamin and Yehudah to the stronghold to David.
12:17David went out to meet them, and answered them, If you be come
peaceably to me to help me, my heart shall be knit to you; but if you be
come to betray me to my adversaries, seeing there is no wrong in my
hands, the G-d of our fathers look thereon, and rebuke it.
12:18Then the Spirit came on `Amasai, who was chief of the thirty, and
he said, "We are yours, David, and on your side, you son of Yishai:
shalom, shalom be to you, and shalom be to your helpers; for your G-d helps
you." Then David received them, and made them captains of the band.
12:19Of Menasheh also there fell away some to David, when he came with
the Pelishtim against Sha'ul to battle: but they didn't help them; for the
lords of the Pelishtim sent him away after consultation, saying, He will fall
away to his master Sha'ul to the jeopardy of our heads.
12:20As he went to Tziklag, there fell to him of Menasheh, `Adnach, and
Yozavad, and Yedi`a'el, and Mikha'el, and Yozavad, and Elihu, and Tzilletai,
captains of thousands who were of Menasheh.
12:21They
helped David against the band of rovers: for they were all mighty men of
valor, and were captains in the army.
12:22For
from day to day men came to David to help him, until there was a great army,
like the army of G-d. 12:23These are the
numbers of the heads of those who were armed for war, who came to David to
Chevron, to turn the kingdom of Sha'ul to him, according to the word of the
LORD. 12:24The children of Yehudah who bore shield and spear were six thousand
and eight hundred, armed for war. 12:25Of the children of
Shim`on, mighty men of valor for the war, seven thousand and one hundred.
12:26Of the children of Levi four thousand and six hundred.
12:27Yehoiada was the leader of the house of Aharon; and with him
were three thousand and seven hundred,
12:28and
Tzadok, a young man mighty of valor, and of his father's house twenty-two
captains. 12:29Of the children of Binyamin, the brothers of Sha'ul, three thousand:
for hitherto the greatest part of them had kept their allegiance to the house
of Sha'ul.
