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1 Chronicles 12:16

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Some of the sons of Benjamin and Judah came to the stronghold of David.

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At that time, David was in the stronghold while the Philistine garrison was at Bethlehem.

These were the ones who crossed over the Jordan during the first month when it had overflowed its banks and caused the valley dwellers to flee to the east and to the west.

So David went out before them and said to them, “If you have come in peace to help me, then I will have a heart united with yours, but if to betray me to my adversaries, when there is no violence in my hand, may the God of our fathers see, and may He decide between us.”

From the Gadites, mighty men of valor, men of the war battalion, who could handle shield and sword, whose faces were like the faces of lions, and who were as swift as the gazelles on the mountains, separated themselves for David in the stronghold in the wilderness:

There is little Benjamin leading them, the princes of Judah in their throng, the princes of Zebulun, and the princes of Naphtali.

When the carriers of the ark came to the Jordan, the feet of the priests carrying the ark dipped into the edge of the water. (Now the Jordan overflows its banks all the days of the harvest.)

He brought them before the king of Moab, and they lived with him all the while that David was in the stronghold.

Saul said to his servants that stood about him, “Hear now, Benjamites! Will the son of Jesse give every one of you fields and vineyards? Will he appoint you all as captains of thousands and captains of hundreds?




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