1 Chronicles 12:8-15

Warriors Join David’s Army

⁸Some brave and experienced warriors from the tribe of Gad also defected to David while he was at the stronghold in the wilderness. They were expert with both shield and spear, as fierce as lions and as swift as deer on the mountains.

•⁹Ezer was their leader. Obadiah was second. Eliab was third.

•¹⁰Mishmannah was fourth. Jeremiah was fifth.

•¹¹Attai was sixth. Eliel was seventh.

•¹²Johanan was eighth. Elzabad was ninth.

•¹³Jeremiah was tenth. Macbannai was eleventh.

¹⁴These warriors from Gad were army commanders. The weakest among them could take on a hundred regular troops, and the strongest could take on a thousand! ¹⁵These were the men who crossed the Jordan River during its seasonal flooding at the beginning of the year and drove out all the people living in the lowlands on both the east and west banks.