A reading from the book of First Chronicles.

Now these are the men who came to David at Zicklack, while he could not move about freely because of Saul, the son of Kish, and they were among the mighty men who helped him in war.

They were bowmen and could shoot arrows and slingstones with either the right or the left hand.

They were Benjaminites, Saul's kinsman. The chief was Ayahezer,

then Joash, both sons of Shemaiah of Gibbya, also Jeziol and Pilate, the sons of Asmapheth,

Berica, Jehu of Anathoth, Ishmaea of Gibbon, a mighty man among the 30, and a leader over the

30, Jeremiah Jehaziel, Johan, Josabad of Ghedira,

Aluzy Jarmoth, Bialaya, Shemiraya, Shephitaia, the Harufite, Elkanah, Ishya, Aserelahezer,

and Jashelbeam, the Chora Heights, and Joila and Zabodaya the sons of Jeroam of Gidor.

From the Gadites there went over to David at the stronghold in the wilderness, mighty and experienced warriors, expert with shield and spear, whose faces were like the faces of lions, and who were swift as gazelles upon the mountains.

Issa the chief, Obadiah second, Eliab third.

Mishmana, fourth, Jeremiah fifth.

Atai 6th.

Liel 7th.

Johanin 8th.

Elzabad 9th.

Jeremiah 10th.

Macbenai 11th.

These Gadites were officers of the army. The least was a match for a hundred

men and the greatest for a thousand. 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. And some of the men of Benjamin and Judah came to the stronghold to David.

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