1 Now these are the ones who came to David at Ziklag while he was still kept away from Saul son of Kish; they were among the mighty men who helped in battle.
2 They were equipped with bows and could sling stones and shoot arrows with the bow using right or left hand; they were from Saul's brothers, of Benjamin.
3 The chief was Ahiezer, then Joash, the sons of Shemaah the Gibeathite; Jeziel and Pelet, the sons of Azmaveth; Beracah, and Jehu the Anathothite;
4 Ishmaiah the Gibeonite, a mighty man among the thirty and over the thirty; Jeremiah, Jahaziel, Johanan, and Jozabad the Gederathite;
5 Eluzai, Jerimoth, Bealiah, Shemariah, and Shephatiah the Haruphite;
6 Elkanah, Isshiah, Azarel, Joezer, and Jashobeam, the Korahites;
7 and Joelah and Zebadiah, the sons of Jeroham of Gedor.
8 From the Gadites, men broke away to join David at the stronghold in the wilderness, strong warriors, soldiers trained for battle, handling shield and spear, whose faces were like lions' faces and who were swift as gazelles upon the hills:
9 Ezer the chief, Obadiah the second, Eliab the third,
10 Mishmannah the fourth, Jeremiah the fifth,
11 Attai the sixth, Eliel the seventh,
12 Johanan the eighth, Elzabad the ninth,
13 Jeremiah the tenth, Machbannai the eleventh.
14 These, of the sons of Gad, were heads of the army; the least was a match for a hundred, and the greatest for a thousand.
15 These are the ones who went across the Jordan in the first month, when it was flooding over all its banks, and drove away everyone in the valleys, east and west.
16 And some men from Benjamin and Judah came to David at the stronghold.
17 David went out before them and spoke up: "If you have come to me peaceably to help me, then my heart will be one with yours. But if it is to hand me over to my foes, when there is no wrong in my hands, may the God of our fathers look on it and judge."
18 Then the Spirit clothed Amasai, the head of the officers: "We are yours, David, and with you, son of Jesse! Peace, peace be to you, and peace to whoever helps you, for your God is your help." So David welcomed them and set them among the leaders of the raiding band.
19 Some from Manasseh also went over to David when he came with the Philistines to fight Saul. Yet they did not help them, because after consulting together the lords of the Philistines sent him off, saying, "At the price of our heads he will go over to his master Saul."
20 When he went to Ziklag, these from Manasseh went over to him: Adnah, Jozabad, Jediael, Michael, Jozabad, Elihu, and Zillethai, heads of thousands in Manasseh.
21 They helped David against the raiding band, for all of them were strong warriors, and they were leaders in the army.
22 Day by day men came to David to help him, until the camp was large, like God's own camp.
23 These are the counts of the heads of those equipped for battle who came to David at Hebron to hand Saul's kingdom over to him, as the LORD had said.
24 The men of Judah carrying shield and spear: six thousand eight hundred, equipped for battle.
25 From the sons of Simeon, strong warriors for battle: seven thousand one hundred.
26 Of the sons of Levi, four thousand six hundred.
27 Jehoiada was the leader of Aaron's house, and with him three thousand seven hundred;
28 and Zadok, a young man, a strong warrior, together with twenty-two leaders of his father's house.
29 From the sons of Benjamin, Saul's brothers: three thousand, for up to then most of them had held to the service of Saul's house.
30 From the sons of Ephraim: twenty thousand eight hundred, strong warriors, men of renown in their fathers' houses.
31 From the half-tribe of Manasseh: eighteen thousand, named one by one to come and make David king.
32 From the sons of Issachar, men who discerned the times and knew what Israel should do: two hundred heads, with all their brothers under their orders.
33 From Zebulun: fifty thousand able to go out in the army, drawn up for battle with every kind of weapon, to help with undivided heart.
34 From Naphtali: a thousand leaders, and with them thirty-seven thousand bearing shield and spear.
35 From the Danites: twenty-eight thousand six hundred, drawn up for battle.
36 From Asher: forty thousand able to go out in the army, drawn up for battle.
37 And from across the Jordan, from the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh: a hundred and twenty thousand, with every kind of weapon for battle.
38 All these fighting men, keeping ranks, came to Hebron with complete devotion to make David king over all Israel; and the rest of Israel too were of a single mind to make David king.
39 They stayed there with David three days, eating and drinking, for their brothers had got things ready for them.
40 And those living near them, even as far as Issachar, Zebulun, and Naphtali, came bringing food on donkeys, camels, mules, and oxen: supplies of flour, fig cakes, raisin cakes, wine and oil, and cattle and sheep in great numbers, for there was gladness in Israel.