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1 Chronicles 12:26-39 New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)

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.

35. From Naphtali: one thousand captains, and with them, armed with shield and lance, thirty-seven thousand men.

36. Of the Danites, set in battle array: twenty-eight thousand six hundred.

37. From Asher, fit for military service and set in battle array: forty thousand.

38. From the other side of the Jordan, of the Reubenites, Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, men equipped with every kind of weapon of war: one hundred and twenty thousand.

39. All these soldiers, drawn up in battle order, came to Hebron with the resolute intention of making David king over all Israel. The rest of Israel was likewise of one mind to make David king.

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