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 carried shield and spear numbered 6,800, equipped for war. 25From the sons of Simeon, valiant mighty men of war, 7,100. 26From 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 valiant mighty man, and from his father’s house, twenty-two captains. 29From the sons of Benjamin, 7Saul’s kinsmen, three thousand; for until now 8the majority of them had kept their allegiance to the house of Saul. 30From the sons of Ephraim 20,800, valiant mighty men, famous men in their fathers’ households. 31From the half-tribe of Manasseh eighteen thousand, who were designated by name to come and make David king. 32From 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. 33From Zebulun, there were fifty thousand 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. 34From Naphtali there were a thousand captains, and with them thirty-seven thousand with shield and spear. 35From the Danites who could draw up in battle formation, there were 28,600. 36From Asher there were forty thousand who went out in the army to draw up in battle formation. 37From the other side of the Jordan, from the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, there were 120,000 with all kinds of weapons of war for the battle.

38All of these, being men of war who helped in battle formation, came to Hebron with 12a perfect heart to make David king over all Israel; and all the rest of Israel also were of one mind to make David king. 39They were there with David for three days, eating and drinking, for their kinsmen had prepared for them. 40Moreover, those who were near to them, as far as Issachar, 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 heart and 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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