1 Chronicles 12:8

Overview - 1 Chronicles 12
The companies that came to David at Ziklag.
23 The armies that came to him at Hebron.
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1 Chronicles 12:8  (King James Version)
And of the Gadites there separated themselves unto David 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;
 


into the hold
16 ; 11:16 1 Samuel 23:14 1 Samuel 23:29 ; 24:22

of war
Hebrew of the host. handle.
2 Chronicles 25:5 ; Jeremiah 46:9

whose faces
11:22 2 Samuel 1:23 ; 17:10 23:20 Proverbs 28:1

as swift as the roes upon the mountains
Hebrew as the roes
upon the mountains to make haste.
2 Samuel 2:18 ; Proverbs 6:5 ; Solomon 8:14