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This is the list of David's mighty men: Jashobeam, the son of a Hachmonite, the chief of the thirty [heroes]. He lifted up his spear against three hundred whom he killed at one time.

Abishai the brother of Joab was chief of the [other] three, and he lifted up his spear against three hundred and killed them, and he had a name as well as the three.

He killed an Egyptian also, a man of great stature, five cubits tall. In the Egyptian's hand was a spear like a weaver's beam, and Benaiah went down to him with [only] a staff (rod) and grabbed the spear from the Egyptian's hand and killed him with his own spear.

He was honored among the thirty, but he did not attain to [the rank of] the [first] three. David appointed him over his bodyguard.

Jediael the son of Shimri, and his brother Joha, the Tizite,

Then the [Holy] Spirit came on Amasai, who was chief of the thirty, and he said, "We are yours, O David, And with you, O son of Jesse! Peace, peace be to you, And peace be to him who helps you; For your God helps you." Then David accepted and received them and made them officers of his troops.

Some [of the men] of Manasseh also defected to David when he came with the Philistines to go to battle against Saul. But David's men did not [actually] assist the Philistines, for the lords (governors) of the Philistines after consultation sent him away, saying, "At the cost of our heads he may defect to his master Saul."

They helped David against the band of raiders, for they were all courageous men, and [all seven] became commanders in his army.

and Zadok, a courageous young man, and twenty-two captains from his father's house.

David and all Israel went up to Baalah, that is, to Kiriath-jearim, which belongs to Judah, to bring up from there the ark of God the LORD who sits enthroned above the cherubim, the ark which is called by His name.

They carried the ark of God on a new cart and brought it out of the house of Abinadab, and Uzza and Ahio [his brother] drove the cart.

When they came to the threshing floor of Chidon, Uzza put out his hand to hold and steady the ark, for the oxen [that were drawing the cart] nearly overturned it.

So the ark of God remained with the family of Obed-edom in his house three months; and the LORD blessed the house of Obed-edom and all that he had.

And David understood that the LORD had established and confirmed him as king over Israel, for his kingdom was highly exalted for the sake of His people Israel.

of the sons of Kohath, Uriel the chief, with 120 of his relatives;

of the sons of Merari, Asaiah the chief, with 220 of his relatives;

of the sons of Gershom, Joel the chief, with 130 of his relatives;

of the sons of Elizaphan, Shemaiah the chief, with 200 of his relatives;

of the sons of Hebron, Eliel the chief, with 80 of his relatives;

of the sons of Uzziel, Amminadab the chief, with 112 of his relatives.