Quotes About Community

Hezro the Carmelite, Naarai son of Ezbai,

Adina son of Shiza the Reubenite, chief of the Reubenites, and the thirty with him,

Hanan son of Maacah, Joshaphat the Mithnite,

Eliel, Obed, and Jaasiel the Mezobaite.

Ahiezer their chief and Joash, who were the sons of Shemaah the Gibeathite; Jeziel and Pelet, the sons of Azmaveth; Beracah; Jehu the Anathothite;

Ishmaiah the Gibeonite, a mighty man among the Thirty and a leader over the Thirty; Jeremiah, Jahaziel, Johanan, and Jozabad the Gederathite;

Eluzai, Jerimoth, Bealiah, Shemariah, and Shephatiah the Haruphite;

and Joelah and Zebadiah, the sons of Jeroham from Gedor.

Mishmannah the fourth, Jeremiah the fifth,

Attai the sixth, Eliel the seventh,

Other Benjamites and some men from Judah also came to David in his stronghold.

For at that time men came to David day after day to help him, until he had a great army, like the army of God.

1 Chronicles 12:26

including Jehoiada, leader of the house of Aaron, with 3,700 men,

From Issachar, men who understood the times and knew what Israel should do: 200 chiefs with all their kinsmen at their command.

They spent three days there eating and drinking with David, for their relatives had provided for them.

And their neighbors from as far away as Issachar, Zebulun, and Naphtali came bringing food on donkeys, camels, mules, and oxen—abundant supplies of flour, fig cakes and raisin cakes, wine and oil, oxen and sheep. Indeed, there was joy in Israel.

Then David conferred with all his leaders, the commanders of hundreds and of thousands.

And because this proposal seemed right to all the people, the whole assembly agreed to it.

Then he gathered together the descendants of Aaron and the Levites:

From the Kohathites, Uriel the chief and 120 of his relatives;

from the Merarites, Asaiah the chief and 220 of his relatives;

from the Gershomites, Joel the chief and 130 of his relatives;

from the Elizaphanites, Shemaiah the chief and 200 of his relatives;