20. When he went to Ziklag some Manassites deserted to him: Adnah, Jehozabad, Jediael, Michael, Jozabad, Elihu, and Zillethai, heads of the thousands that were for Manasseh.
21. And they themselves helped David against the troops, for all of them were mighty men of strength and were commanders in the army.
22. Day in and day out they came to David to help him until there was a great army, like the army of God.
23. And these are the numbers of the chiefs of those prepared for the army who came to David at Hebron to turn the kingdom of Saul over to him according to the word of Yahweh.
24. The sons of Judah bearing shield and spear: six thousand eight hundred armed troops.
25. From the men of Simeon, mighty warriors of strength for war: seven thousand one hundred.
26. From the Levites: four thousand six hundred.
27. Jehoiada the chief officer of the house of Aaron, and with him, three thousand seven hundred.
28. And Zadok, a young man, a mighty warrior of strength, and the house of his father: twenty-two commanders.
29. From the men of Benjamin, kinsmen of Saul, three thousand, and even still the majority of them remained loyal to the house of Saul.
30. And from the men of Ephraim: twenty thousand eight hundred mighty warriors of strength, famous men in the house of their fathers.
31. And from the half-tribe of Manasseh: eighteen thousand who were designated by name to come to make David king.