1├╚ 12:1 ╬OW THESE ARE THEY THAT CAME TO ─AVID TO ┌IKLAG, WHILE HE YET KEPT HIMSELF CLOSE BECAUSE OF ╙AUL THE SON OF ╦ISH: AND THEY WERE AMONG THE MIGHTY MEN, HELPERS OF THE WAR.
1├╚ 12:2 ╘HEY WERE ARMED WITH BOWS, AND COULD USE BOTH THE RIGHT HAND AND THE LEFT IN HURLING STONES AND SHOOTING ARROWS OUT OF A BOW, EVEN OF ╙AUL'S BRETHREN OF ┬ENJAMIN.
1├╚ 12:3 ╘HE CHIEF WAS ┴HIEZER, THEN ╩OASH, THE SONS OF ╙HEMAAH THE ╟IBEATHITE; AND ╩EZIEL, AND ╨ELET, THE SONS OF ┴ZMAVETH; AND ┬ERACHAH, AND ╩EHU THE ┴NTOTHITE.
1├╚ 12:4 ┴ND ╔SMAIAH THE ╟IBEONITE, A MIGHTY MAN AMONG THE THIRTY, AND OVER THE THIRTY; AND ╩EREMIAH, AND ╩AHAZIEL, AND ╩OHANAN, AND ╩OSABAD THE ╟EDERATHITE,
1├╚ 12:5 ┼LUZAI, AND ╩ERIMOTH, AND ┬EALIAH, AND ╙HEMARIAH, AND ╙HEPHATIAH THE ╚ARUPHITE,
1├╚ 12:6 ┼LKANAH, AND ╩ESIAH, AND ┴ZAREEL, AND ╩OEZER, AND ╩ASHOBEAM, THE ╦ORHITES,
1├╚ 12:7 ┴ND ╩OELAH, AND ┌EBADIAH, THE SONS OF ╩EROHAM OF ╟EDOR.
1├╚ 12:8 ┴ND OF THE ╟ADITES THERE SEPARATED THEMSELVES UNTO ─AVID INTO THE HOLD TO THE WILDERNESS MEN OF MIGHT, AND MEN OF WAR FIT FOR THE BATTLE, THAT COULD HANDLE SHIELD AND BUCKLER, WHOSE FACES WERE LIKE THE FACES OF LIONS, AND WERE AS SWIFT AS THE ROES UPON THE MOUNTAINS;
1├╚ 12:9 ┼ZER THE FIRST, ╧BADIAH THE SECOND, ┼LIAB THE THIRD,
1├╚ 12:10 ═ISHMANNAH THE FOURTH, ╩EREMIAH THE FIFTH,
1├╚ 12:11 ┴TTAI THE SIXTH, ┼LIEL THE SEVENTH,
1├╚ 12:12 ╩OHANAN THE EIGHTH, ┼LZABAD THE NINTH,
1├╚ 12:13 ╩EREMIAH THE TENTH, ═ACHBANAI THE ELEVENTH.
1├╚ 12:14 ╘HESE WERE OF THE SONS OF ╟AD, CAPTAINS OF THE HOST: ONE OF THE LEAST WAS OVER AN HUNDRED, AND THE GREATEST OVER A THOUSAND.
1├╚ 12:15 ╘HESE ARE THEY THAT WENT OVER ╩ORDAN IN THE FIRST MONTH, WHEN IT HAD OVERFLOWN ALL HIS BANKS; AND THEY PUT TO FLIGHT ALL THEM OF THE VALLEYS, BOTH TOWARD THE EAST, AND TOWARD THE WEST.
1├╚ 12:16 ┴ND THERE CAME OF THE CHILDREN OF ┬ENJAMIN AND ╩UDAH TO THE HOLD UNTO ─AVID.
1├╚ 12:17 ┴ND ─AVID WENT OUT TO MEET THEM, AND ANSWERED AND SAID UNTO THEM, ╔F YE BE COME PEACEABLY UNTO ME TO HELP ME, MINE HEART SHALL BE KNIT UNTO YOU: BUT IF YE BE COME TO BETRAY ME TO MINE ENEMIES, SEEING THERE IS NO WRONG IN MINE HANDS, THE ╟OD OF OUR FATHERS LOOK THEREON, AND REBUKE IT.
1├╚ 12:18 ╘HEN THE SPIRIT CAME UPON ┴MASAI, WHO WAS CHIEF OF THE CAPTAINS, AND HE SAID, ╘HINE ARE WE, ─AVID, AND ON THY SIDE, THOU SON OF ╩ESSE: PEACE, PEACE BE UNTO THEE, AND PEACE BE TO THINE HELPERS; FOR THY ╟OD HELPETH THEE. ╘HEN ─AVID RECEIVED THEM, AND MADE THEM CAPTAINS OF THE BAND.
1├╚ 12:19 ┴ND THERE FELL SOME OF ═ANASSEH TO ─AVID, WHEN HE CAME WITH THE ╨HILISTINES AGAINST ╙AUL TO BATTLE: BUT THEY HELPED THEM NOT: FOR THE LORDS OF THE ╨HILISTINES UPON ADVISEMENT SENT HIM AWAY, SAYING, ╚E WILL FALL TO HIS MASTER ╙AUL TO THE JEOPARDY OF OUR HEADS.
1├╚ 12:20 ┴S HE WENT TO ┌IKLAG, THERE FELL TO HIM OF ═ANASSEH, ┴DNAH, AND ╩OZABAD, AND ╩EDIAEL, AND ═ICHAEL, AND ╩OZABAD, AND ┼LIHU, AND ┌ILTHAI, CAPTAINS OF THE THOUSANDS THAT WERE OF ═ANASSEH.
1├╚ 12:21 ┴ND THEY HELPED ─AVID AGAINST THE BAND OF THE ROVERS: FOR THEY WERE ALL MIGHTY MEN OF VALOUR, AND WERE CAPTAINS IN THE HOST.
1├╚ 12:22 ╞OR AT THAT TIME DAY BY DAY THERE CAME TO ─AVID TO HELP HIM, UNTIL IT WAS A GREAT HOST, LIKE THE HOST OF ╟OD.
1├╚ 12:23 ┴ND THESE ARE THE NUMBERS OF THE BANDS THAT WERE READY ARMED TO THE WAR, AND CAME TO ─AVID TO ╚EBRON, TO TURN THE KINGDOM OF ╙AUL TO HIM, ACCORDING TO THE WORD OF THE ╠╧╥─.
1├╚ 12:24 ╘HE CHILDREN OF ╩UDAH THAT BARE SHIELD AND SPEAR WERE SIX THOUSAND AND EIGHT HUNDRED, READY ARMED TO THE WAR.
1├╚ 12:25 ╧F THE CHILDREN OF ╙IMEON, MIGHTY MEN OF VALOUR FOR THE WAR, SEVEN THOUSAND AND ONE HUNDRED.
1├╚ 12:26 ╧F THE CHILDREN OF ╠EVI FOUR THOUSAND AND SIX HUNDRED.
1├╚ 12:27 ┴ND ╩EHOIADA WAS THE LEADER OF THE ┴ARONITES, AND WITH HIM WERE THREE THOUSAND AND SEVEN HUNDRED;
1├╚ 12:28 ┴ND ┌ADOK, A YOUNG MAN MIGHTY OF VALOUR, AND OF HIS FATHER'S HOUSE TWENTY AND TWO CAPTAINS.
1├╚ 12:29 ┴ND OF THE CHILDREN OF ┬ENJAMIN, THE KINDRED OF ╙AUL, THREE THOUSAND: FOR HITHERTO THE GREATEST PART OF THEM HAD KEPT THE WARD OF THE HOUSE OF ╙AUL.
1├╚ 12:30 ┴ND OF THE CHILDREN OF ┼PHRAIM TWENTY THOUSAND AND EIGHT HUNDRED, MIGHTY MEN OF VALOUR, FAMOUS THROUGHOUT THE HOUSE OF THEIR FATHERS.
1├╚ 12:31 ┴ND OF THE HALF TRIBE OF ═ANASSEH EIGHTEEN THOUSAND, WHICH WERE EXPRESSED BY NAME, TO COME AND MAKE ─AVID KING.
1├╚ 12:32 ┴ND OF THE CHILDREN OF ╔SSACHAR, WHICH WERE MEN THAT HAD UNDERSTANDING OF THE TIMES, TO KNOW WHAT ╔SRAEL OUGHT TO DO; THE HEADS OF THEM WERE TWO HUNDRED; AND ALL THEIR BRETHREN WERE AT THEIR COMMANDMENT.
1├╚ 12:33 ╧F ┌EBULUN, SUCH AS WENT FORTH TO BATTLE, EXPERT IN WAR, WITH ALL INSTRUMENTS OF WAR, FIFTY THOUSAND, WHICH COULD KEEP RANK: THEY WERE NOT OF DOUBLE HEART.
1├╚ 12:34 ┴ND OF ╬APHTALI A THOUSAND CAPTAINS, AND WITH THEM WITH SHIELD AND SPEAR THIRTY AND SEVEN THOUSAND.
1├╚ 12:35 ┴ND OF THE ─ANITES EXPERT IN WAR TWENTY AND EIGHT THOUSAND AND SIX HUNDRED.
1├╚ 12:36 ┴ND OF ┴SHER, SUCH AS WENT FORTH TO BATTLE, EXPERT IN WAR, FORTY THOUSAND.
1├╚ 12:37 ┴ND ON THE OTHER SIDE OF ╩ORDAN, OF THE ╥EUBENITES, AND THE ╟ADITES, AND OF THE HALF TRIBE OF ═ANASSEH, WITH ALL MANNER OF INSTRUMENTS OF WAR FOR THE BATTLE, AN HUNDRED AND TWENTY THOUSAND.
1├╚ 12:38 ┴LL THESE MEN OF WAR, THAT COULD KEEP RANK, CAME WITH A PERFECT HEART TO ╚EBRON, TO MAKE ─AVID KING OVER ALL ╔SRAEL: AND ALL THE REST ALSO OF ╔SRAEL WERE OF ONE HEART TO MAKE ─AVID KING.
1├╚ 12:39 ┴ND THERE THEY WERE WITH ─AVID THREE DAYS, EATING AND DRINKING: FOR THEIR BRETHREN HAD PREPARED FOR THEM.
1├╚ 12:40 ═OREOVER THEY THAT WERE NIGH THEM, EVEN UNTO ╔SSACHAR AND ┌EBULUN AND ╬APHTALI, BROUGHT BREAD ON ASSES, AND ON CAMELS, AND ON MULES, AND ON OXEN, AND MEAT, MEAL, CAKES OF FIGS, AND BUNCHES OF RAISINS, AND WINE, AND OIL, AND OXEN, AND SHEEP ABUNDANTLY: FOR THERE WAS JOY IN ╔SRAEL.
