22. They helped David by taking charge of his troops, for they were all warriors and became commanders of his army.
23. And from day to day men kept coming to David’s help until there was a vast encampment, like God’s own encampment.
24. This is the muster of the detachments of armed troops that came to David at Hebron to bring Saul’s kingdom over to him, as the Lord had ordained.
25. Judahites bearing shields and spears: six thousand eight hundred armed troops.
26. Of the Simeonites, warriors fit for battle: seven thousand one hundred.
27. Of the Levites: four thousand six hundred,
28. along with Jehoiada, leader of the line of Aaron, with another three thousand seven hundred,
29. and Zadok, a young warrior, with twenty-two princes of his father’s house.
30. Of the Benjaminites, the kinsmen of Saul: three thousand—until this time, most of them had kept their allegiance to the house of Saul.
31. Of the Ephraimites: twenty thousand eight hundred warriors, men renowned in their ancestral houses.
32. Of the half-tribe of Manasseh: eighteen thousand, designated by name to come and make David king.
33. Of the Issacharites, their chiefs who were endowed with an understanding of the times and who knew what Israel had to do: two hundred chiefs, together with all their kinsmen under their command.
34. From Zebulun, men fit for military service, set in battle array with every kind of weapon for war: fifty thousand men rallying with a single purpose.