1 Chronicles 12
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1 Chronicles 12:23-40

23Now these are the numbers of the 1divisions equipped for war, 2who came to David at Hebron, 3to turn the kingdom of Saul to him, 4according to the 5word of the Lord. 24The sons of Judah who bore shield and spear were 6,800, equipped for war. 25Of the sons of Simeon, mighty men of valor for war, 7,100. 26Of the sons of Levi 4,600. 27Now Jehoiada was the leader of the house of Aaron, and with him were 3,700, 28also 6Zadok, a young man mighty of valor, and of his father’s house twenty-two captains. 29Of the sons of Benjamin, 7Saul’s kinsmen, 3,000; for until now 8the greatest part of them had kept their allegiance to the house of Saul. 30Of the sons of Ephraim 20,800, mighty men of valor, famous men in their fathers’ households. 31Of the half-tribe of Manasseh 18,000, who were designated by name to come and make David king. 32Of the sons of Issachar, 9men who understood the times, with knowledge of what Israel should do, their chiefs were two hundred; and all their kinsmen were at their command. 33Of Zebulun, there were 50,000 who went out in the army, who could draw up in battle formation with all kinds of weapons of war and helped David 10with 11an undivided heart. 34Of Naphtali there were 1,000 captains, and with them 37,000 with shield and spear. 35Of the Danites who could draw up in battle formation, there were 28,600. 36Of Asher there were 40,000 who went out in the army to draw up in battle formation. 37From the other side of the Jordan, of the Reubenites and the Gadites and of the half-tribe of Manasseh, there were 120,000 with all kinds of weapons of war for the battle.

38All these, being men of war who could draw up in battle formation, came to Hebron with 12a perfect heart to make David king over all Israel; and all the rest also of Israel were of one mind to make David king. 39They were there with David three days, eating and drinking, for their kinsmen had prepared for them. 40Moreover those who were near to them, even as far as Issachar and Zebulun and Naphtali, 13brought food on donkeys, camels, mules and on oxen, great quantities of flour cakes, fig cakes and bunches of raisins, wine, oil, oxen and sheep. There was joy indeed in Israel.

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Notes

  1. 1. 1 Chronicles 12:23 Lit heads ↩
  2. 2. 1 Chronicles 12:23 2 Sam 2:3, 4 ↩
  3. 3. 1 Chronicles 12:23 1 Chr 10:14 ↩
  4. 4. 1 Chronicles 12:23 1 Chr 11:10 ↩
  5. 5. 1 Chronicles 12:23 Lit mouth ↩
  6. 6. 1 Chronicles 12:28 2 Sam 8:17; 1 Chr 6:8, 53 ↩
  7. 7. 1 Chronicles 12:29 1 Chr 12:2 ↩
  8. 8. 1 Chronicles 12:29 2 Sam 2:8, 9 ↩
  9. 9. 1 Chronicles 12:32 Esth 1:13 ↩
  10. 10. 1 Chronicles 12:33 Lit not of double heart ↩
  11. 11. 1 Chronicles 12:33 Ps 12:2 ↩
  12. 12. 1 Chronicles 12:38 2 Sam 5:1-3; 1 Chr 12:33 ↩
  13. 13. 1 Chronicles 12:40 1 Sam 25:18 ↩

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