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Then the spirit came upon Amasai, chief of the Thirty, and he said, "We are yours, O David; and with you, O son of Jesse! Peace, peace to you, and peace to the one who helps you! For your God is the one who helps you." Then David received them, and made them officers of his troops.
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Some of the Manassites deserted to David when he came with the Philistines for the battle against Saul. (Yet he did not help them, for the rulers of the Philistines took counsel and sent him away, saying, "He will desert to his master Saul at the cost of our heads.")
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As he went to Ziklag these Manassites deserted to him: Adnah, Jozabad, Jediael, Michael, Jozabad, Elihu, and Zillethai, chiefs of the thousands in Manasseh.
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They helped David against the band of raiders, for they were all warriors and commanders in the army.
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Indeed from day to day people kept coming to David to help him, until there was a great army, like an army of God.
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These are the numbers of the divisions of the armed troops who came to David in Hebron to turn the kingdom of Saul over to him, according to the word of the Lord.
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The people of Judah bearing shield and spear numbered six thousand eight hundred armed troops.
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Of the Simeonites, mighty warriors, seven thousand one hundred.
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Of the Levites four thousand six hundred.
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Jehoiada, leader of the house of Aaron, and with him three thousand seven hundred.
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Zadok, a young warrior, and twenty-two commanders from his own ancestral house.
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Of the Benjaminites, the kindred of Saul, three thousand, of whom the majority had continued to keep their allegiance to the house of Saul.
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Of the Ephraimites, twenty thousand eight hundred, mighty warriors, notables in their ancestral houses.
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Of the half-tribe of Manasseh, eighteen thousand, who were expressly named to come and make David king.
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Of Issachar, those who had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do, two hundred chiefs, and all their kindred under their command.