6. Elkanah, Isshiah, Azarel, Joezer, and Jashobeam, the Korahites;
7. and Joelah and Zebadiah, the sons of Jeroham from Gedor.
8. Some Gadites defected to David at his stronghold in the desert. They were fighting men, trained for battle, expert with shield and spear. Their faces were like the faces of lions, and they were as swift as gazelles on the mountains.
9. Ezer was the chief, Obadiah second, Eliab third,
10. Mishmannah fourth, Jeremiah fifth,
11. Attai sixth, Eliel seventh,
12. Johanan eighth, Elzabad ninth,
13. Jeremiah tenth, and Machbannai eleventh.
14. These Gadites were army commanders; the least of them was a match for a hundred, and the greatest of them for a thousand.
15. 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.
16. Other Benjaminites and men from Judah also went to David at the stronghold.
17. David went out to meet them and said to them, “If you have come in peace to help me, my heart will be united with you, but if you have come to betray me to my enemies even though my hands have done no wrong, may the God of our ancestors look on it and judge.”