1 Chronicles 12:8

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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 on the mountains:

Cross References

2 Samuel 1:23

Saul and Jonathan, beloved and lovely! In life and in death they were not divided; they were swifter than eagles; they were stronger than lions.

2 Samuel 17:10

Then even the valiant warrior whose heart is like the heart of a lion will utterly melt with fear, for all Israel knows that your father is a warrior and that those who are with him are valiant warriors.

2 Samuel 2:18

The three sons of Zeruiah were there, Joab, Abishai, and Asahel. Now Asahel was as swift of foot as a wild gazelle.

2 Samuel 23:20

Benaiah son of Jehoiada was a valiant warrior from Kabzeel, a doer of great deeds; he struck down two sons of Ariel of Moab. He also went down and killed a lion in a pit on a day when snow had fallen.

1 Chronicles 11:16

David was then in the stronghold, and the garrison of the Philistines was then at Bethlehem.

1 Chronicles 11:22

Benaiah son of Jehoiada was a valiant man of Kabzeel, a doer of great deeds; he struck down two sons of Ariel of Moab. He also went down and killed a lion in a pit on a day when snow had fallen.

1 Chronicles 12:16

Some Benjaminites and Judahites came to the stronghold to David.

1 Chronicles 12:7

and Joelah and Zebadiah, sons of Jeroham of Gedor.

1 Chronicles 12:9

Ezer the chief, Obadiah second, Eliab third,

2 Chronicles 25:5

Amaziah assembled the people of Judah and set them by ancestral houses under commanders of the thousands and of the hundreds for all Judah and Benjamin. He mustered those twenty years old and up and found that they were three hundred thousand picked troops fit for war, able to handle spear and shield.

Proverbs 28:1

The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are as bold as a lion.

Proverbs 6:5

save yourself like a gazelle from the hunter, like a bird from the hand of the fowler.

Song of Solomon 8:14

Make haste, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or a young stag upon the mountains of spices!

Jeremiah 46:9

Advance, O horses, and dash madly, O chariots! Let the warriors go forth: Cush and Put, who carry the shield, the Ludim, who draw the bow.

1 Samuel 23:14

David remained in the strongholds in the wilderness, in the hill country of the wilderness of Ziph. Saul sought him every day, but the Lord did not give him into his hand.

1 Samuel 23:29

David then went up from there and lived in the strongholds of En-gedi.

1 Samuel 24:22

So David swore this to Saul. Then Saul went home, but David and his men went up to the stronghold.