Daily Bread

²⁴ from Judah, carrying shield and spear—6,800 armed for battle;

²⁵ from Simeon, warriors ready for battle—7,100;

²⁶ from Levi—4,600, ²⁷ including Jehoiada, leader of the family of Aaron, with 3,700 men, ²⁸ and Zadok,^(D) a brave young warrior, with 22 officers from his family;

²⁹ from Benjamin,^(E) Saul’s tribe—3,000, most^(F) of whom had remained loyal to Saul’s house until then;

³⁰ from Ephraim, brave warriors, famous in their own clans—20,800;

³¹ from half the tribe of Manasseh, designated by name to come and make David king—18,000;

³² from Issachar, men who understood the times and knew what Israel should do^(G)—200 chiefs, with all their relatives under their command;

³³ from Zebulun, experienced soldiers prepared for battle with every type of weapon, to help David with undivided loyalty—50,000;

³⁴ from Naphtali—1,000 officers, together with 37,000 men carrying shields and spears;

³⁵ from Dan, ready for battle—28,600;

³⁶ from Asher, experienced soldiers prepared for battle—40,000;

³⁷ and from east of the Jordan, from Reuben, Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh, armed with every type of weapon—120,000.