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There came of the children of Binyamin and Yehudah to the stronghold to David.
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David went out to meet them, and answered them, If you be come peaceably to me to help me, my heart shall be knit to you; but if [you be come] to betray me to my adversaries, seeing there is no wrong in my hands, the God of our fathers look thereon, and rebuke it.
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Then the Spirit came on `Amasai, who was chief of the thirty, [and he said], Your are we, David, and on your side, you son of Yishai: shalom, shalom be to you, and shalom be to your helpers; for your God helps you. Then David received them, and made them captains of the band.
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Of Menashsheh also there fell away some to David, when he came with the Pelishtim against Sha'ul to battle: but they didn't help them; for the lords of the Pelishtim on advise sent him away, saying, He will fall away to his master Sha'ul to the jeopardy of our heads.
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As he went to Tziklag, there fell to him of Menashsheh, `Adnach, and Yozavad, and Yedi`a'el, and Mikha'el, and Yozavad, and Elihu, and Tzilletai, captains of thousands who were of Menashsheh.
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They helped David against the band of rovers: for they were all mighty men of valor, and were captains in the host.
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For from day to day men came to David to help him, until there was a great host, like the host of God.
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These are the numbers of the heads of those who were armed for war, who came to David to Hevron, to turn the kingdom of Sha'ul to him, according to the word of the LORD.
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The children of Yehudah who bore shield and spear were six thousand and eight hundred, armed for war.
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Of the children of Shim`on, mighty men of valor for the war, seven thousand and one hundred.
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Of the children of Levi four thousand and six hundred.