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1 CHR ONICL ES 11
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responsibilities since they were on duty at all
hours. 34 All these men lived in Jerusalem. They
were the heads of Levite families and were
listed as prominent leaders in their genealogical records.
King Saul’s Family Tree
35 Jeiel (the father of* Gibeon) lived in the town
of Gibeon. His wife’s name was Maacah,
36 and his oldest son was named Abdon. Jeiel’s
other sons were Zur, Kish, Baal, Ner, Nadab,
37 Gedor, Ahio, Zechariah, and Mikloth.
38 Mikloth was the father of Shimeam. All
these families lived near each other in
Jerusalem.
39 Ner was the father of Kish.
Kish was the father of Saul.
Saul was the father of Jonathan, Malkishua,
Abinadab, and Esh-baal.
40 Jonathan was the father of Merib-baal.
Merib-baal was the father of Micah.
41 The sons of Micah were Pithon, Melech,
Tahrea, and Ahaz.*
42 Ahaz was the father of Jadah.*
Jadah was the father of Alemeth, Azmaveth,
and Zimri.
Zimri was the father of Moza.
43 Moza was the father of Binea.
Binea’s son was Rephaiah.
Rephaiah’s son was Eleasah.
Eleasah’s son was Azel.
44 Azel had six sons, whose names were Azrikam,
Bokeru, Ishmael, Sheariah, Obadiah, and
Hanan. These were the sons of Azel.
The Death of King Saul
Now the Philistines attacked Israel, and
the men of Israel fled before them. Many
were slaughtered on the slopes of Mount Gilboa.
2 The Philistines closed in on Saul and his sons,
and they killed three of his sons—Jonathan,
Abinadab, and Malkishua. 3 The fighting grew
very fierce around Saul, and the Philistine archers caught up with him and wounded him.
4 Saul groaned to his armor bearer, “Take
your sword and kill me before these pagan Philistines come to taunt and torture me.”
But his armor bearer was afraid and would
not do it. So Saul took his own sword and fell
on it. 5 When his armor bearer realized that Saul
was dead, he fell on his own sword and died.
6 So Saul and his three sons died there together,
bringing his dynasty to an end.
7 When all the Israelites in the Jezreel Valley
saw that their army had fled and that Saul and
his sons were dead, they abandoned their towns
and fled. So the Philistines moved in and occupied their towns.
10
9:35 Or the founder of. 9:41 As in Syriac version and Latin
Vulgate (see also 8:35); Hebrew lacks and Ahaz. 9:42 As in
some Hebrew manuscripts and Greek version (see also 8:36);
Hebrew reads Jarah. 11:2 Or For some time. 11:8 Hebrew
the millo. The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain.
8 The next day, when the Philistines went out
to strip the dead, they found the bodies of Saul
and his sons on Mount Gilboa. 9 So they stripped
off Saul’s armor and cut off his head. Then they
proclaimed the good news of Saul’s death before their idols and to the people throughout the
land of Philistia. 10 They placed his armor in the
temple of their gods, and they fastened his head
to the temple of Dagon.
11 But when everyone in Jabesh-gilead heard
about everything the Philistines had done to
Saul, 12 all their mighty warriors brought the
bodies of Saul and his sons back to Jabesh. Then
they buried their bones beneath the great tree at
Jabesh, and they fasted for seven days.
13 So Saul died because he was unfaithful to
the Lord. He failed to obey the Lord’s command, and he even consulted a medium 14 instead of asking the Lord for guidance. So the
Lord killed him and turned the kingdom over
to David son of Jesse.
David Becomes King of All Israel
Then all Israel gathered before David at
Hebron and told him, “We are your own
flesh and blood. 2 In the past,* even when Saul
was king, you were the one who really led the
forces of Israel. And the Lord your God told
you, ‘You will be the shepherd of my people Israel. You will be the leader of my people Israel.’”
3 So there at Hebron, David made a covenant
before the Lord with all the elders of Israel.
And they anointed him king of Israel, just as
the Lord had promised through Samuel.
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David Captures Jerusalem
4 Then David and all Israel went to Jerusalem (or
Jebus, as it used to be called), where the Jebusites, the original inhabitants of the land, were
living. 5 The people of Jebus taunted David, saying, “You’ll never get in here!” But David captured the fortress of Zion, which is now called
the City of David.
6 David had said to his troops, “Whoever is
first to attack the Jebusites will become the
commander of my armies!” And Joab, the
son of David’s sister Zeruiah, was first to attack, so he became the commander of David’s
armies.
7 David made the fortress his home, and that
is why it is called the City of David. 8 He extended the city from the supporting terraces*
to the surrounding area, while Joab rebuilt the
rest of Jerusalem. 9 And David became more and
more powerful, because the Lord of Heaven’s
Armies was with him.
David’s Mightiest Warriors
10 These are the leaders of David’s mighty warriors. Together with all Israel, they decided to
make David their king, just as the Lord had
promised concerning Israel.