1 Chronicles 27:16-24

New Living Translation

Leaders of the Tribes

¹⁶The following were the tribes of Israel and their leaders:

Tribe	Leader
Reuben	Eliezer son of Zicri
Simeon	Shephatiah son of Maacah
¹⁷Levi	Hashabiah son of Kemuel
Aaron (the priests)	Zadok
¹⁸Judah	Elihu (a brother of David)
Issachar	Omri son of Michael
¹⁹Zebulun	Ishmaiah son of Obadiah
Naphtali	Jeremoth son of Azriel
²⁰Ephraim	Hoshea son of Azaziah
Manasseh (west)	Joel son of Pedaiah
²¹Manasseh in Gilead (east)	Iddo son of Zechariah
Benjamin	Jaasiel son of Abner
²²Dan	Azarel son of Jeroham

These were the leaders of the tribes of Israel.

²³When David took his census, he did not count those who were younger than twenty years of age, because the Lord had promised to make the Israelites as numerous as the stars in heaven. ²⁴Joab son of Zeruiah began the census but never finished it because^[a] the anger of God fell on Israel. The total number was never recorded in King David’s official records.

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