21 And they helped David against athe bands ofraiders, for they were all mighty men of valor, and they were captains in the army.
22 For at that time they came to David day by day to help him, until itwas a great army, alike the army of God.
David’s Army at Hebron
23 Now these were the numbers of the1 divisions thatwere equipped for war, andacame to David at bHebron to cturn over the kingdom of Saul to him, daccording to the word of the Lord:
24 of the sons of Judah bearing shield and spear, six thousand eight hundred1 armed for war;
25 of the sons of Simeon, mighty men of valor fit for war, seven thousand one hundred;
27 Jehoiada, the leader of the Aaronites, and with him three thousand seven hundred;
28aZadok, a young man, a valiant warrior, and from his father’s house twenty-two captains;
29 of the sons of Benjamin, relatives of Saul, three thousand (until then athe greatest part of them had remained loyal to the house of Saul);
30 of the sons of Ephraim twenty thousand eight hundred, mighty men of valor,1 famous men throughout their father’s house;
31 of the half-tribe of Manasseh eighteen thousand, who were designated by name to come and make David king;
32 of the sons of Issachar awho had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do, their chiefs were two hundred; and all their brethren were at their command;
33 of Zebulun there were fifty thousand who went out to battle, expert in war with all weapons of war, astouthearted men who could keep ranks;
34 of Naphtali one thousand captains, and with them thirty-seven thousand with shield and spear;
35 of the Danites who could keep battle formation, twenty-eight thousand six hundred;
36 of Asher, those who could go out to war, able to keep battle formation, forty thousand;
37 of the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh, from the other side of the Jordan, one hundred and twenty thousand armed for battle with every kind of weapon of war.
38 All these men of war, who could keep ranks, came to Hebron with a loyal heart, to make David king over all Israel; and all the rest of Israel were of aone mind to make David king.
39 And they were there with David three days, eating and drinking, for their brethren had prepared for them.
40 Moreover those who were near to them, from as far away as Issachar and Zebulun and Naphtali, were bringing food on donkeys and camels, on mules and oxen—provisions of flour and cakes of figs and cakes of raisins, wine and oil and oxen and sheep abundantly, for therewas joy in Israel.
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