1 Chronicles 12:21-31

21 hii praebuerunt auxilium David adversum latrunculos omnes enim erant viri fortissimi et facti sunt principes in exercitu

22 sed et per singulos dies veniebant ad David ad auxiliandum ei usque dum fieret grandis numerus quasi exercitus Dei

23 iste quoque est numerus principum exercitus qui venerunt ad David cum esset in Hebron ut transferrent regnum Saul ad eum iuxta verbum Domini

24 filii Iuda portantes clypeum et hastam sex milia octingenti expediti ad proelium

25 de filiis Symeon virorum fortissimorum ad pugnandum septem milia centum

26 de filiis Levi quattuor milia sescenti

27 Ioiada quoque princeps de stirpe Aaron et cum eo tria milia septingenti

28 Sadoc etiam puer egregiae indolis et domus patris eius principes viginti duo

29 de filiis autem Beniamin fratribus Saul tria milia magna enim pars eorum adhuc sequebatur domum Saul

30 porro de filiis Ephraim viginti milia octingenti fortissimi robore viri nominati in cognationibus suis

31 et ex dimidia parte tribus Manasse decem et octo milia singuli per nomina sua venerunt ut constituerent regem David

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.