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1 Chronicles 12:15 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" These are those who went over the Jordan in the first month, when it had overflowed all its banks; and they put to flight all who lived in the valleys, both toward the east and toward the west. "
1 Chronicles 12:15
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13 Jeremiah the tenth, and Machbannai the eleventh.
14 These of the sons of Gad were captains of the army. He who was least was equal to one hundred, and the greatest to one thousand.
15 These are those who went over the Jordan in the first month, when it had overflowed all its banks; and they put to flight all who lived in the valleys, both toward the east and toward the west.
16 Some of the children of Benjamin and Judah came to the stronghold to David.
17 David went out to meet them, and answered them, “If you have come peaceably to me to help me, my heart will be united with you; but if you have come to betray me to my adversaries, since there is no wrong in my hands, may the God of our fathers see this and rebuke it.”
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1 Chronicles 12:1
"Now these are those who came to David to Ziklag while he was a fugitive from Saul the son of Kish. They were among the mighty men, his helpers in war."
1 Chronicles 12:2
"They were armed with bows, and could use both the right hand and the left in slinging stones and in shooting arrows from the bow. They were of Saul’s relatives of the tribe of Benjamin."
1 Chronicles 12:3
"The chief was Ahiezer, then Joash, the sons of Shemaah the Gibeathite; Jeziel and Pelet, the sons of Azmaveth; Beracah; Jehu the Anathothite;"
1 Chronicles 12:4
"Ishmaiah the Gibeonite, a mighty man among the thirty and a leader of the thirty; Jeremiah; Jahaziel; Johanan; Jozabad the Gederathite;"
1 Chronicles 12:5
"Eluzai; Jerimoth; Bealiah; Shemariah; Shephatiah the Haruphite;"
1 Chronicles 12:6
"Elkanah, Isshiah, Azarel, Joezer, and Jashobeam, the Korahites;"
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