1 Kronieken 12:23-27

23 En dit zijn de getallen der hoofden dergenen, die toegerust waren ten heire, die tot David te Hebron kwamen, om het koninkrijk van Saul tot hem te wenden, naar den mond des HEEREN:

24 Van de kinderen van Juda, die rondassen en spiesen droegen, waren zes duizend en achthonderd toegerust ten heire;

25 Van de kinderen van Simeon, kloeke helden ten heire, zeven duizend en honderd;

26 Van de kinderen van Levi, vier duizend en zeshonderd;

27 En Jehojada was overste der Aaronieten; en met hem waren er drie duizend en zevenhonderd.

1 Kronieken 12:23-27 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.