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1 Chronicles 12:5-16 English Standard Version (ESV)

5. Eluzai, Jerimoth, Bealiah, Shemariah, Shephatiah the Haruphite;

6. Elkanah, Isshiah, Azarel, Joezer, and Jashobeam, the Korahites;

7. And Joelah and Zebadiah, the sons of Jeroham of Gedor.

8. From the Gadites there went over to David at the stronghold in the wilderness mighty and experienced warriors, expert with shield and spear, whose faces were like the faces of lions and who were swift as gazelles upon the mountains:

9. Ezer the chief, Obadiah second, Eliab third,

10. Mishmannah fourth, Jeremiah fifth,

11. Attai sixth, Eliel seventh,

12. Johanan eighth, Elzabad ninth,

13. Jeremiah tenth, Machbannai eleventh.

14. These Gadites were officers of the army; the least was a match for a hundred men and the greatest for a thousand.

15. These are the men who crossed the Jordan in the first month, when it was overflowing all its banks, and put to flight all those in the valleys, to the east and to the west.

16. And some of the men of Benjamin and Judah came to the stronghold to David.

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