1 Chronicles 12:20-30

20 These are the men from Manasseh who joined David when he went to Ziklag: Adnah, Jozabad, Jediael, Michael, Jozabad, Elihu, and Zillethai. Each of them was a leader of a thousand men from Manasseh.
21 All these men of Manasseh were brave soldiers, and they helped David fight against groups of men who went around the country robbing people. These soldiers became commanders in David's army.
22 Every day more men joined David, and his army became large, like the army of God.
23 These are the numbers of the soldiers ready for battle who joined David at Hebron. They came to help turn the kingdom of Saul over to David, just as the Lord had said.
24 There were sixty-eight hundred men with their weapons from Judah. They carried shields and spears.
25 There were seventy-one hundred men from Simeon. They were warriors ready for war.
26 There were forty-six hundred men from Levi.
27 Jehoiada, a leader from Aaron's family, was in that group. There were thirty-seven hundred with him.
28 Zadok was also in that group. He was a strong young warrior, and with him came twenty-two leaders from his family.
29 There were three thousand men from Benjamin, who were Saul's relatives. Most of them had remained loyal to Saul's family until then.
30 There were twenty thousand eight hundred men from Ephraim. They were brave warriors and were famous men in their own family groups.

1 Chronicles 12:20-30 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 1 CHRONICLES 12

This chapter gives an account of those that came to David at different times, and joined and assisted him both before the death of Saul, and when persecuted by him, and after he was made king of Judah in Hebron, and before he was king of all Israel, in order to it; of the Benjaminites that came to him when at Ziklag, 1Ch 12:1-7 of the Gadites that came to him when in the hold, 1Ch 12:8-15 of some of Judah and Benjamin, who came to him in the same place, 1Ch 12:16-18, and of the Manassites at the time he came with the Philistines against Saul, 1Ch 12:19-22 and the number of the several tribes are given, that came to him at Hebron to make him king over all Israel, 1Ch 12:23-40.

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