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Ezer the chief, Obadiah second, Eliab third,
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Mishmannah fourth, Jeremiah fifth,
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Attai sixth, Eliel seventh,
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Johanan eighth, Elzabad ninth,
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Jeremiah tenth, Machbannai eleventh.
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These Gadites were officers of the army, the least equal to a hundred and the greatest to a thousand.
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These are the men who crossed the Jordan in the first month, when it was overflowing all its banks, and put to flight all those in the valleys, to the east and to the west.
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Some Benjaminites and Judahites came to the stronghold to David.
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David went out to meet them and said to them, "If you have come to me in friendship, to help me, then my heart will be knit to you; but if you have come to betray me to my adversaries, though my hands have done no wrong, then may the God of our ancestors see and give judgment."
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Then the spirit came upon Amasai, chief of the Thirty, and he said, "We are yours, O David; and with you, O son of Jesse! Peace, peace to you, and peace to the one who helps you! For your God is the one who helps you." Then David received them, and made them officers of his troops.
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Some of the Manassites deserted to David when he came with the Philistines for the battle against Saul. (Yet he did not help them, for the rulers of the Philistines took counsel and sent him away, saying, "He will desert to his master Saul at the cost of our heads.")