RESTORATION SCRIPTURES TRUE NAME EDITION Study Bible

DIVRE HAYAMIM ALEF - FIRST CHRONICLES
war fit for the battle, that could handle shield and spear,
whose faces were like the faces of lions, and were as swift
as the gazelles upon the mountains;
9 Etzer the first, Ovadyah the second, Eliav the third,
10 Mishmannah the fourth, Yirmeyahu the fifth,
11 Attai the sixth, Eli-El the seventh,
12 Yochanan the eighth, Elzavad the ninth,
13 Yirmeyahu the tenth, Machvanai the eleventh.
14 These were of the sons of Gad, commanders of the
army: the least was over a hundred, and the greatest over
a thousand.
15 These are they that went over the Yarden River in the
first month, when it had overflowed all its banks; and
they put to flight all of them of the valleys, both toward
the east, and toward the west.
16 And there came of the children of Benyamin and
Yahudah to the stronghold to Dawid.
17 And Dawid went out to meet them, and answered and
said to them, If you are come in shalom to help me, my
lev shall be knit to you: but if you are come to betray me
to my enemies, seeing there is no violence in my hands,
the Elohim of our ahvot look, see it, and rebuke it.
18 Then the Ruach came upon Amatsai, who was chief of
the commanders, and he said, Yours we are, Dawid, and
we are on your side, you son of Yishai: shalom, shalom
be to you, and shalom be to your helpers; for your Elohim
helps you. Then Dawid received them, and made them
commanders of the band.
19 And some of Menashsheh went over to Dawid, when
he came with the Plishtim against Shaul to battle: but they
did not help Shaul: for the leaders of the Plishtim upon
advisement sent him away, saying, He might go to his
master Shaul with our heads.
20 As he went to Ziklag, those of Menashsheh who went
over to him, Adnah, and Yozavad, and Yediya-El, and
Micha-El, and Yozavad, and Elihu, and Tzilthai,
commanders of the thousands that were of Menashsheh.
21 And they helped Dawid against the band of the raiders:
for they were all mighty men of bravery, and were
commanders in the host.
22 For at that time day by day men came to Dawid to help
him, until it was a great army, like the host of Elohim.
23 And these are the numbers of the tribes that were
ready armed to the war, and came to Dawid to Hevron, to
turn the malchut of Shaul to him, according to the word of
vuvh.
24 The children of Yahudah that bore shield and spear
were six thousand eight hundred, ready and armed for
war.
25 Of the children of Shimeon, mighty men of bravery for
war, seven thousand one hundred.
26 Of the children of Lewi four thousand six hundred.
27 And Yahoyada was the leader of the Aharonites, and
with him were three thousand seven hundred;
28 And Tzadok, a young man mighty in bravery, and of
his abba’s bayit twenty-two commanders.
29 And of the children of Benyamin, the relatives of
Shaul, three thousand: for until then the greatest part of
them had guarded the duties of the bayit of Shaul.
30 And of the children of Efrayim twenty thousand eight
hundred, mighty men of bravery, famous throughout the
bayit of their ahvot.
31 And of the half tribe of Menashsheh eighteen
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thousand, who were designated by name, to come and
make Dawid melech.
32 And of the children of Yissachar, who were men that
had binah of the times, to know what Yisrael should do;
the heads of them were two hundred; and all their
brothers were at their commandment. 4214
33 Of Zevulun, such as went forth to battle, expert in war,
with all the instruments of war, fifty thousand, who could
keep rank: they were not of a double lev. 4215
34 And of Naphtali a thousand commanders, and with
them with shield and spear thirty seven thousand.
35 And of the Danites expert in war twenty eight
thousand six hundred.
36 And of Asher, such as went forth to battle, expert in
war, forty thousand.
37 And on the other side of Yarden, of the Reuvenites,
and the Gadites, and of the half tribe of Menashsheh, with
all manner of instruments of war for the battle, a hundred
twenty thousand.
38 All these men of war, that could keep rank, came with
a perfect lev to Hevron, to make Dawid melech over kol
Yisrael: and all the rest also of Yisrael were of one lev to
make Dawid melech. 4216
39 And there they were with Dawid three days, eating and
drinking: for their brothers had prepared for them.
40 Moreover they that were near them, even from as far
away as Yissachar and Zevulun and Naphtali, brought
lechem on donkeys, and on camels, and on mules, and on
oxen, and meat, flour, cakes of figs, and bunches of
raisins, and wine, and oil, and oxen, and sheep
abundantly: for there was simcha in Yisrael. 4217
And Dawid consulted with the commanders of
thousands and hundreds, and with every leader.
2 And Dawid said to all the congregation of Yisrael, If it
seems tov to you, and that it be of vuvh our Elohim, let us
send abroad to our brothers everywhere, that are left in all
the land of Yisrael, and with them also to the Kohanim
and Lewiym who are in their cities and suburbs, that they
may gather themselves to us: 4218
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3 And let us bring again the Ark of our Elohim to us: for
we sought Him not with it in the days of Shaul.
4 And all the congregation said that they would do so: for
the thing was right in the eyes of all the people.
5 So Dawid gathered kol Yisrael together, from Shihor of
Mitzrayim even to the entering of Hamath, to bring the
Ark of Elohim from Kiryath-Yearim.
6 And Dawid went up, and kol Yisrael, to Baalah, that is,
to Kiryath-Yearim, which belonged to Yahudah, to bring
up from there the Ark of Elohim, vuvh, that dwells
between the cheruvim, whose Name is called on it.
7 And they carried the Ark of Elohim in a new cart out of
the bayit of Avinadav: and Uzza and Achyo led the
wagon.
8 And Dawid and kol Yisrael played before Elohim with
all their might, and with singing, and with harps, and with
lyres, and with timbrels, and with cymbals, and with
shofars.
9 And when they came to the threshing floor of Chidon,
Uzza put forth his hand to hold the Ark; for the oxen
stumbled.
10 And the anger of vuvh was lit against Uzza, and He
killed him, because he put his hand to the Ark: and there