1 Chronicles 12:23-37

David’s Supporters in Ziklag

²³Now these are the numbers of the divisions equipped for war, who came to David at Hebron, to turn the kingdom of Saul to him, according to the word of the Lord. ²⁴The sons of Judah who carried shield and spear numbered 6,800, equipped for war. ²⁵From the sons of Simeon, valiant mighty men of war, 7,100. ²⁶From the sons of Levi, 4,600. ²⁷Now Jehoiada was the leader of the house of Aaron, and with him were 3,700, ²⁸also Zadok, a young valiant mighty man, and from his father’s house, twenty-two captains. ²⁹From the sons of Benjamin, Saul’s kinsmen, three thousand; for until now the majority of them had kept their allegiance to the house of Saul. ³⁰From the sons of Ephraim 20,800, valiant mighty men, famous men in their fathers’ households. ³¹From the half-tribe of Manasseh eighteen thousand, who were designated by name to come and make David king. ³²From the sons of Issachar, men who understood the times, with knowledge of what Israel should do, their chiefs were two hundred; and all their kinsmen were at their command. ³³From Zebulun, there were fifty thousand who went out in the army, who could draw up in battle formation with all kinds of weapons of war and helped David with an undivided heart. ³⁴From Naphtali there were a thousand captains, and with them thirty-seven thousand with shield and spear. ³⁵From the Danites who could draw up in battle formation, there were 28,600. ³⁶From Asher there were forty thousand who went out in the army to draw up in battle formation. ³⁷From the other side of the Jordan, from the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, there were 120,000 with all kinds of weapons of war for the battle.