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Ferrar Fentons 'Holy Bible in Modern English. All spelling, punctuation and formatting maintained through-out. Verse ordering follows the King James version for clarity and necessary organization of the verses.

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RF CH1 12:1 And these came to David at Ziklag while he was shut out from the favour of Saul-ben-Kish, and they were among the hard fighters in battle.
RF CH1 12:2 They could draw the bow with both right and left hand, in slinging stones or in shooting arrows. They were from Benjamim,—tribesmen of Saul.
RF CH1 12:3 The Commanders were Akhiazer, and Joash, sons of Shamaa, the Ghibaonite; and Izual, and Felet, sons of Azmuth; and Berakah, and Alia, the Anathothite;
RF CH1 12:4 and Ishmaiah, the Ghibaonite, a General in the Thirty, and who Commanded the Thirty; Jeremiah, and Jakhazial, and Jokhanan, and Jozabad the Gherathite;
RF CH1 12:5 Alnazi and Jerimoth, and Baliah, and Shemariah, and Shefatiah, the Kharufite;
RF CH1 12:6 Alkanah, and Ishiah, and Azaral, and Japazer, Jashabam,
RF CH1 12:7 and Joalah, and Zebadiah, sons of Jerokham, from Ghedar.
RF CH1 12:8 And from the Gadites there deserted to David, when in hiding in the Desert, brave men, Princes of war in battle. Trained to the shield and spear, and their faces were faces of lions, and they were swift as gazelles on the hills.
RF CH1 12:9 Their Commander was Azer; Obadiah, the Second; Aliab, the Third;
RF CH1 12:10 Mishmanah, the Fourth; Iremiah, the Fifth;
RF CH1 12:11 Attu, the Sixth; Alial, the Seventh;
RF CH1 12:12 Jokhanan, the Eighth; Alsabad, the Ninth;
RF CH1 12:13 Iremiho the Tenth; Makabani, the Eleventh.
RF CH1 12:14 (1058 B.C.) Those were Officers in the Army from the Beni Gad; the least over a hundred, the greatest over a thousand.
RF CH1 12:15 These were the men who crossed the Jordan in the First month, when it was flooded over all its banks, and routed the whole of the Dalesmen, both on the east and west.
RF CH1 12:16 Some also came to David from the Beni Benjamin, and Judah, when in hiding,
RF CH1 12:17 and David came out to meet them, and he addressed and said to them, "If you come for peace and come to me to help me, my heart is ready to unite with you.—But if to betray me to my oppressor, when there is no wrong in my hand, the GOD of our fathers will see it, and punish it."
RF CH1 12:18 Then passion clothed Amasai, Commander of the Staff; "We are yours, David and with you, Son of Jesse Peace, Peace! to you, and to your friends! For your GOD helps you!" David then accepted them, and made them captains of troops.
RF CH1 12:19 Some also deserted from Menasseh to David when he marched with the Philishtim to fight against Saul. But they did not help, for upon consultation the Lords of the Philishtim sent him away, remarking, "He will desert with our heads to his Master, Saul!"
RF CH1 12:20 When he marched to Ziklag there deserted to him from Menasseh, Adinah, and Jozabad, and Idiaal, and Mikal, Jozabad, and Alihua, and Zilthi, Colonels of regiments that came from Menasseh,
RF CH1 12:21 and they helped David with their troops, for they were all brave men, and they became Generals in the Army.
RF CH1 12:22 From day to day also others came to help him, until there was a great army like a divine army.
RF CH1 12:23 (About 1056 B.C.) The Israelite Generals who elected David as King.
And these are from the records of the Generals of Division of tilt Army, who came to David at Hebron, to transfer the Kingship of Saul to him, as the EVER-LIVING commanded:—
RF CH1 12:24 With the Princes of the Beni Judah; carrying shield and spear—Six thousand, eight hundred, disciplined for war; 6,800
RF CH1 12:25 From the Beni Simeon; brave men of war, Seven thousand, one hundred; 7,100
RF CH1 12:26 From the Beni Levi,—Four thousand, six hundred; 4,600
RF CH1 12:27 And Jhoiada the Prince of the Descendants from Aaron, and with him,—Three thousand and seven hundred; 3,700
RF CH1 12:28 And Zadok a young brave man, and the Officers of his father's family,—Twenty-two; 22
RF CH1 12:29 And from the Beni Benjamin, the Tribe of Saul, Three thousand,—for until then the 3,000 majority kept their duty to the House of Saul;
RF CH1 12:30 From the Beni Ephraim,—Twenty thousand and eight 3,700 hundred brave men of fame in their Ancestral Houses. 20,800
RF CH1 12:31 And from the half tribe of Menasseh, eighteen thousand, who were specified by their names to go to the Election of David to the Kingship; 18,000
RF CH1 12:32 And from the Beni Issakar, of persons who understood the requirements of the times, what was best for Israel to do, two hundred, and all their tribe were at their command. 200
RF CH1 12:33 From Zebulon, there came an army disciplined for war, with all the equipments for battle, fifty thousand, disciplined and unwavering. 50,000
RF CH1 12:34 And from Nafthali, a thousand Officers, and with them twenty-seven thousand shield and spear men. 28,000
RF CH1 12:35 And from the Danites, equipped for battle, twenty-eight thousand, six hundred. 28,600
RF CH1 12:36 And from Asher, there arrived an army equipped for battle of forty thousand. 40,000
RF CH1 12:37 And over from the Jordan; From the Reubenites, and Gadites, and the Half Tribe of Menasseh, with all the military equipments for battle, a hundred and twenty thousand. 120,000
RF CH1 12:38 All these were drilled soldiers, perfectly disciplined to their hearts, who came to Hebron to elect David to the Kingship over all Israel; and also all the rest of Israel were of one heart to elect David to the Kingship,
RF CH1 12:39 and were there with David for three days, eating and drinking, with their friends.
RF CH1 12:40 Their connections also from as far off as Issakar, and Zebulon, and Nafthali, brought bread on asses and camels and mules, with cattle, with corn, meal, dried figs, raisins; and wine, and oil, and bullocks and sheep in abundance. For all Israel was glad.1
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1 NOTE.—Total of the electors for David numerated above from the army was 330,822 men, an evidence of the large population of the Hebrew territories in 1045 B.C.—F.F.




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