1 Chronicles 12:21-31

21 And they gave David help against the armed bands, for they were all great men of war, and captains in the army.

22 And from day to day more supporters came to David, till he had a great army like the army of God.

23 These are the numbers of the chiefs of the armed men, ready for war, who came to David at Hebron, to give the kingdom of Saul into his hands, as the Lord had said.

24 There were six thousand, eight hundred spearmen of the children of Judah, armed for war;

25 Seven thousand, one hundred of the children of Simeon, great men of war;

26 Of the children of Levi, four thousand, six hundred.

27 And Jehoiada, chief of the family of Aaron, and with him three thousand, seven hundred men;

28 And Zadok, a young man, great and strong in war, with twenty-two captains from his father's people.

29 And of the children of Benjamin, the brothers of Saul, three thousand; for up to that time the greater part of them had been true to Saul.

30 And of the children of Ephraim, twenty thousand, eight hundred great men of war, men of great name in their families.

31 And from the half-tribe of Manasseh, eighteen thousand, listed by name, came to make David king.

1 Chronicles 12:21-31 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.