10. Mishmannah fourth, Jeremiah fifth,
11. Attai sixth, Eliel seventh,
12. Jehonan eighth, Elzabad ninth,
13. Jeremiah tenth, Macbannai eleventh.
14. These were the sons of Gad, leaders of the army. The smallest one was as a hundred, and the greatest as a thousand.
15. These were they who crossed the Jordan in the first month, when it was filled over its banks. And they put to flight all who were in the valley to the east and to the west.
16. And some of the sons of Benjamin and from Judah came to the fortress, to David.
17. And David went out to meet them and answered and said to them, “If you come in peace to me, to help me, my heart will be joined with you, but if you come to betray me to my adversaries, although there is no wrong on my hands, may the God of our fathers see and pass judgment.”
18. Then the Spirit came upon Amasai, chief of the thirty who said: “We are yours, O David! And we are with you, O son of Jesse! Peace! Peace to you, and peace to those who help you, for your God helps you.” So David appointed them as heads of the troops.
19. And some Manassites deserted to David when he came with the Philistines to the battle against Saul, but he did not help them, for the rulers of the Philistines sent him away upon counsel, saying, “He will desert to his master Saul at the cost of our heads.”