14. These Gadites were officers of the army; the least was a match for a hundred men and the greatest for a thousand.
15. These are the men who crossed the Jordan in the first month, when it was overflowing all its banks, and put to flight all those in the valleys, to the east and to the west.
16. And some of the men of Benjamin and Judah came to the stronghold to David.
17. David went out to meet them and said to them, “If you have come to me in friendship to help me, my heart will be joined to you; but if to betray me to my adversaries, although there is no wrong in my hands, then may the God of our fathers see and rebuke you.”
18. Then the Spirit clothed Amasai, chief of the thirty, and he said,“We are yours, O David,and with you, O son of Jesse! Peace, peace to you,and peace to your helpers!For your God helps you.”Then David received them and made them officers of his troops.
19. Some of the men of Manasseh deserted to David when he came with the Philistines for the battle against Saul. (Yet he did not help them, for the rulers of the Philistines took counsel and sent him away, saying, “At peril to our heads he will desert to his master Saul.”)
20. As he went to Ziklag, these men of Manasseh deserted to him: Adnah, Jozabad, Jediael, Michael, Jozabad, Elihu, and Zillethai, chiefs of thousands in Manasseh.
21. They helped David against the band of raiders, for they were all mighty men of valor and were commanders in the army.
22. For from day to day men came to David to help him, until there was a great army, like an army of God.
23. These are the numbers of the divisions of the armed troops who came to David in Hebron to turn the kingdom of Saul over to him, according to the word of the Lord.
24. The men of Judah bearing shield and spear were 6,800 armed troops.