«And Adonijah and all the guests that were with him heard it as they had made an end of eating. And when Joab heard the sound of the trumpet, he said, Wherefore is this noise of the city being in an uproar? / And while he yet spake, behold, Jonathan the son of Abiathar the priest came; and Adonijah said unto him, Come in; for thou art a valiant man, and bringest good tidings.»

«And there was sore war against the Philistines all the days of Saul: and when Saul saw any strong man, or any valiant man, he took him unto him.»

«And he also that is valiant, whose heart is as the heart of a lion, shall utterly melt: for all Israel knoweth that thy father is a mighty man, and they which be with him are valiant men.»

«And Saul said to David, Behold my elder daughter Merab, her will I give thee to wife: only be thou valiant for me, and fight the LORD's battles. For Saul said, Let not mine hand be upon him, but let the hand of the Philistines be upon him.»

«And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD.»

«And their brethren among all the families of Issachar were valiant men of might, reckoned in all by their genealogies fourscore and seven thousand.»

«And Abijah set the battle in array with an army of valiant men of war, even four hundred thousand chosen men: Jeroboam also set the battle in array against him with eight hundred thousand chosen men, being mighty men of valour.»

«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 Joab gave up the sum of the number of the people unto the king: and there were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men that drew the sword; and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand men.»

«And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man, of Kabzeel, who had done many acts, he slew two lionlike men of Moab: he went down also and slew a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow: / And he slew an Egyptian, a goodly man: and the Egyptian had a spear in his hand; but he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian's hand, and slew him with his own spear.»