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And from the tribe of Benjamin they were given Gibeon, Geba, Alemeth and Anathoth, together with their pasturelands. The total number of towns distributed among the Kohathite clans came to thirteen.
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The sons of Tola: Uzzi, Rephaiah, Jeriel, Jahmai, Ibsam and Samuel—heads of their families. During the reign of David, the descendants of Tola listed as fighting men in their genealogy numbered 22,600.
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All these were descendants of Asher—heads of families, choice men, brave warriors and outstanding leaders. The number of men ready for battle, as listed in their genealogy, was 26,000.
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Of the Zerahites: Jeuel. The people from Judah numbered 690.
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The people from Benjamin, as listed in their genealogy, numbered 956. All these men were heads of their families.
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The priests, who were heads of families, numbered 1,760. They were able men, responsible for ministering in the house of God.
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Altogether, those chosen to be gatekeepers at the thresholds numbered 212. They were registered by genealogy in their villages. The gatekeepers had been assigned to their positions of trust by David and Samuel the seer.
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Others Join David at Hebron
These are the numbers of the men armed for battle who came to David at Hebron to turn Saul’s kingdom over to him, as the Lord had said:
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When they were but few in number, few indeed, and strangers in it,
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Joab reported the number of the fighting men to David: In all Israel there were one million one hundred thousand men who could handle a sword, including four hundred and seventy thousand in Judah.
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But Joab did not include Levi and Benjamin in the numbering, because the king’s command was repulsive to him.
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He also provided more cedar logs than could be counted, for the Sidonians and Tyrians had brought large numbers of them to David.
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in gold and silver, bronze and iron—craftsmen beyond number. Now begin the work, and the Lord be with you.”
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The Levites thirty years old or more were counted, and the total number of men was thirty-eight thousand.
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and whenever burnt offerings were presented to the Lord on the Sabbaths, at the New Moon feasts and at the appointed festivals. They were to serve before the Lord regularly in the proper number and in the way prescribed for them.
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A larger number of leaders were found among Eleazar’s descendants than among Ithamar’s, and they were divided accordingly: sixteen heads of families from Eleazar’s descendants and eight heads of families from Ithamar’s descendants.
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Along with their relatives—all of them trained and skilled in music for the Lord—they numbered 288.
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David did not take the number of the men twenty years old or less, because the Lord had promised to make Israel as numerous as the stars in the sky.
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Joab son of Zeruiah began to count the men but did not finish. God’s wrath came on Israel on account of this numbering, and the number was not entered in the book of the annals of King David.
