Quotations, Proverbs & Sayings

«Asahel the brother of Joab was one of the thirty; Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem, / Shammah the Harodite, Elika the Harodite, / Helez the Paltite, Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, / Abiezer the Anethothite, Mebunnai the Hushathite, / Zalmon the Ahohite, Maharai the Netophathite, / Heleb the son of Baanah, a Netophathite, Ittai the son of Ribai out of Gibeah of the children of Benjamin, / Benaiah the Pirathonite, Hiddai of the brooks of Gaash, / Abialbon the Arbathite, Azmaveth the Barhumite, / Eliahba the Shaalbonite, of the sons of Jashen, Jonathan, / Shammah the Hararite, Ahiam the son of Sharar the Hararite, / Eliphelet the son of Ahasbai, the son of the Maachathite, Eliam the son of Ahithophel the Gilonite, / Hezrai the Carmelite, Paarai the Arbite, / Igal the son of Nathan of Zobah, Bani the Gadite, / Zelek the Ammonite, Nahari the Beerothite, armourbearer to Joab the son of Zeruiah, / Ira an Ithrite, Gareb an Ithrite, / Uriah the Hittite: thirty and seven in all.»

«And Saul's son had two men that were captains of bands: the name of the one was Baanah, and the name of the other Rechab, the sons of Rimmon a Beerothite, of the children of Benjamin: (for Beeroth also was reckoned to Benjamin.»

«And the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, went, and came about the heat of the day to the house of Ishbosheth, who lay on a bed at noon.»

«And they came thither into the midst of the house, as though they would have fetched wheat; and they smote him under the fifth rib: and Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped.»

«And these are their names: The son of Hur, in mount Ephraim: / The son of Dekar, in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and Bethshemesh, and Elonbethhanan: / The son of Hesed, in Aruboth; to him pertained Sochoh, and all the land of Hepher: / The son of Abinadab, in all the region of Dor; which had Taphath the daughter of Solomon to wife: / Baana the son of Ahilud; to him pertained Taanach and Megiddo, and all Bethshean, which is by Zartanah beneath Jezreel, from Bethshean to Abelmeholah, even unto the place that is beyond Jokneam: / The son of Geber, in Ramothgilead; to him pertained the towns of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead; to him also pertained the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, threescore great cities with walls and brasen bars: / Ahinadab the son of Iddo had Mahanaim: / Ahimaaz was in Naphtali; he also took Basmath the daughter of Solomon to wife: / Baanah the son of Hushai was in Asher and in Aloth: / Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar: / Shimei the son of Elah, in Benjamin: / Geber the son of Uri was in the country of Gilead, in the country of Sihon king of the Amorites, and of Og king of Bashan; and he was the only officer which was in the land.»

«The chief of the people; Parosh, Pahathmoab, Elam, Zatthu, Bani, / Bunni, Azgad, Bebai, / Adonijah, Bigvai, Adin, / Ater, Hizkijah, Azzur, / Hodijah, Hashum, Bezai, / Hariph, Anathoth, Nebai, / Magpiash, Meshullam, Hezir, / Meshezabeel, Zadok, Jaddua, / Pelatiah, Hanan, Anaiah, / Hoshea, Hananiah, Hashub, / Hallohesh, Pileha, Shobek, / Rehum, Hashabnah, Maaseiah, / And Ahijah, Hanan, Anan, / Malluch, Harim, Baanah.»

«And my God put into mine heart to gather together the nobles, and the rulers, and the people, that they might be reckoned by genealogy. And I found a register of the genealogy of them which came up at the first, and found written therein, / These are the children of the province, that went up out of the captivity, of those that had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away, and came again to Jerusalem and to Judah, every one unto his city; / Who came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, Baanah. The number, I say, of the men of the people of Israel was this; / The children of Parosh, two thousand an hundred seventy and two.»

«Now these are the children of the province that went up out of the captivity, of those which had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away unto Babylon, and came again unto Jerusalem and Judah, every one unto his city; / Which came with Zerubbabel: Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mizpar, Bigvai, Rehum, Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel: / The children of Parosh, two thousand an hundred seventy and two.»

«Also the valiant men of the armies were, Asahel the brother of Joab, Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem, / Shammoth the Harorite, Helez the Pelonite, / Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, Abiezer the Antothite, / Sibbecai the Hushathite, Ilai the Ahohite, / Maharai the Netophathite, Heled the son of Baanah the Netophathite, / Ithai the son of Ribai of Gibeah, that pertained to the children of Benjamin, Benaiah the Pirathonite, / Hurai of the brooks of Gaash, Abiel the Arbathite, / Azmaveth the Baharumite, Eliahba the Shaalbonite, / The sons of Hashem the Gizonite, Jonathan the son of Shage the Hararite, / Ahiam the son of Sacar the Hararite, Eliphal the son of Ur, / Hepher the Mecherathite, Ahijah the Pelonite, / Hezro the Carmelite, Naarai the son of Ezbai, / Joel the brother of Nathan, Mibhar the son of Haggeri, / Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Berothite, the armourbearer of Joab the son of Zeruiah, / Ira the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite, / Uriah the Hittite, Zabad the son of Ahlai, / Adina the son of Shiza the Reubenite, a captain of the Reubenites, and thirty with him, / Hanan the son of Maachah, and Joshaphat the Mithnite, / Uzzia the Ashterathite, Shama and Jehiel the sons of Hothan the Aroerite, / Jediael the son of Shimri, and Joha his brother, the Tizite, / Eliel the Mahavite, and Jeribai, and Joshaviah, the sons of Elnaam, and Ithmah the Moabite, / Eliel, and Obed, and Jasiel the Mesobaite.»

«And David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and said unto them, As the LORD liveth, who hath redeemed my soul out of all adversity, / When one told me, saying, Behold, Saul is dead, thinking to have brought good tidings, I took hold of him, and slew him in Ziklag, who thought that I would have given him a reward for his tidings: / How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house upon his bed? shall I not therefore now require his blood of your hand, and take you away from the earth? / And David commanded his young men, and they slew them, and cut off their hands and their feet, and hanged them up over the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ishbosheth, and buried it in the sepulchre of Abner in Hebron.»