I Chronicles 11 · דברי הימים א

Then all Yisra᾽el gathered themselves to David to Ḥevron, saying, Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh.

And moreover in time past, even when Sha᾽ul was king, thou wast he who didst lead out Yisra᾽el and bring them in: and the Lord thy God said to thee, Thou shalt be shepherd over my people Yisra᾽el, and thou shalt be ruler over my people Yisra᾽el.

Therefore all the elders of Yisra᾽el came to the king to Ḥevron; and David made a covenant with them in Ḥevron before the Lord; and they anointed David king over Yisra᾽el, according to the word of the Lord by Shemu᾽el.

And David and all Yisra᾽el went to Yerushalayim, which is Yevus; where the Yevusi were, the inhabitants of the land.

And the inhabitants of Yevus said to David, Thou shalt not come here. Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Żiyyon, which is the city of David.

And David said, Whoever smites the Yevusi first shall be chief and captain. So Yo᾽av the son of Żeruya went first up, and became the chief.

And David dwelt in the stronghold; therefore they called it the city of David.

And he built the city round about, even from the Millo round about: and Yo᾽av repaired the rest of the city.

So David grew greater and greater: for the Lord of hosts was with him.

These also are the chiefs of the mighty men whom David had, who held fast to him in his kingdom, together with all Yisra᾽el, to make him king, according to the word of the Lord concerning Yisra᾽el.

And this is the number of the mighty men whom David had; Yoshov῾am, the son of Ḥakhmoni, the chief of the captains: he swung his spear over three hundred slain at one time.

And after him was El῾azar the son of Dodo, the Aĥoĥite, who was one of the three mighty men.

He was with David at Pas-dammim, and there the Pelishtim were gathered together to battle, where there was a plot of ground full of barley; and the people fled from before the Pelishtim.

And they set themselves in the midst of that plot, and delivered it, and slew the Pelishtim; and the Lord saved them by a great deliverance.

Now three of the thirty captains went down to the rock to David, into the cave of ῾Adullam; and the host of the Pelishtim encamped in the valley of Refa᾽im.

And David was then in the stronghold, and the garrison of the Pelishtim was then at Bet-leĥem.

And David longed, and said, Oh that someone would give me water of the well of Bet-leĥem, that is by the gate, to drink!

And those three broke through the host of the Pelishtim, and drew water out of the well of Bet-leĥem, 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,

and he said, far be it from me before my God, 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 have they brought it. Therefore he would not drink it. These things did these three mightiest.

And Avshay the brother of Yo᾽av, he was chief among the three: and he swung his spear over three hundred slain, and had a name among the three.

Of the three in the second rank he was most honourable; therefore he was their captain: but he attained not to the first three.

Benaya the son of Yehoyada, the son of a valiant man of Qavże᾽el, who had done many acts; he slew two lionhearted men of Mo᾽av: and he went down and slew a lion in a pit in a time of snow.

And he slew a Miżrian man, a man of great stature, five cubits high; and in the Miżrian’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 Miżrian’s hand, and slew him with his own spear.

These things Benayahu the son of Yehoyada did, and he had a name among the three mighty ones.

Behold, he was renowned among the thirty, but did not attain to the first three: and David set him over his guard.

And the valiant men of the armies were ῾Asa᾽el the brother of Yo᾽av, Elĥanan the son of Dodo of Bet-leĥem,

Shammot the Harorite, Ḥeleż the Pelonite,

῾Ira the son of ῾Iqqesh the Teqo῾ite, Avi῾ezer the ῾Antotite,

Sibbekhay the Ḥushatite, ῾Ilay the Aĥoĥite,

Maharay the Netofatite, Ḥeled the son of Ba῾ana the Netofatite,

Itay the son of Rive of Giv῾a of the children of Binyamin, Benaya the Pir῾atonite,

Ḥuray of the wadis of Ga῾ash, Avi᾽el the ῾Arvatite,

῾Azmavet the Baĥarumite, Elyaĥba the Sha῾alvonite,

the sons of Hashem the Gizonite, Yonatan the son of Shage the Hararite,

Aĥi῾am the son of Sakhar the Hararite, Elifal the son of Ur,

Ḥefer the Mekheratite, Aĥiyya the Pelonite,

Ḥeżro the Karmelite, Na῾aray the son of Ezbay,

Yo᾽el the brother of Natan, Mivĥar the son of Hagri,

Żeleq the ῾Ammonite, Naĥray the Berotite, the armourbearer of Yo᾽av the son of Żeruya,

῾Ira the Yitrite, Garev the Yitrite,

Uriyya the Ḥittite, Zavad the son of Aĥlay,

῾Adina the son of Shiza the Re᾽uvenite, a captain of the Re᾽uveni, and thirty with him.

Ḥanan the son of Ma῾akha, and Yoshafat the Mitnite,

῾Uzziyya the ῾Ashteratite, Shama and Ye῾i᾽el the sons of Ḥotam the ῾Aro῾erite,

Yedi῾a᾽el the son of Shimri, and Yoĥa his brother, the Tiżite,

Eli᾽el from Maĥavim, and Yerivay, and Yoshavya, the sons of Elna῾am, and Yitma the Mo᾽avite,

Eli᾽el, and ῾Oved, and Ya῾asi᾽el of Meżovaya.