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1 Chronicles 12:27 (NIV)
including Jehoiada, leader of the family of Aaron, with 3,700 men,
1 Chronicles 12:28 (NIV)
and Zadok, a brave young warrior, with 22 officers from his family;
1 Chronicles 12:29 (NIV)
from Benjamin, Saul’s tribe—3,000, most of whom had remained loyal to Saul’s house until then;
1 Chronicles 12:30 (NIV)
from Ephraim, brave warriors, famous in their own clans—20,800;
1 Chronicles 12:31 (NIV)
from half the tribe of Manasseh, designated by name to come and make David king—18,000;
1 Chronicles 12:32 (NIV)
from Issachar, men who understood the times and knew what Israel should do—200 chiefs, with all their relatives under their command;
1 Chronicles 12:33 (NIV)
from Zebulun, experienced soldiers prepared for battle with every type of weapon, to help David with undivided loyalty—50,000;
1 Chronicles 12:34 (NIV)
from Naphtali—1,000 officers, together with 37,000 men carrying shields and spears;
1 Chronicles 12:35 (NIV)
from Dan, ready for battle—28,600;
1 Chronicles 12:36 (NIV)
from Asher, experienced soldiers prepared for battle—40,000;
1 Chronicles 12:37 (NIV)
and from east of the Jordan, from Reuben, Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh, armed with every type of weapon—120,000.
1 Chronicles 12:38 (NIV)
All these were fighting men who volunteered to serve in the ranks. They came to Hebron fully determined to make David king over all Israel. All the rest of the Israelites were also of one mind to make David king.
1 Chronicles 12:39 (NIV)
The men spent three days there with David, eating and drinking, for their families had supplied provisions for them.
1 Chronicles 12:40 (NIV)
Also, their neighbors from as far away as Issachar, Zebulun and Naphtali came bringing food on donkeys, camels, mules and oxen. There were plentiful supplies of flour, fig cakes, raisin cakes, wine, olive oil, cattle and sheep, for there was joy in Israel.
1 Samuel 12:1 (NIV)
Samuel said to all Israel, “I have listened to everything you said to me and have set a king over you.
1 Samuel 12:2 (NIV)
Now you have a king as your leader. As for me, I am old and gray, and my sons are here with you. I have been your leader from my youth until this day.
1 Samuel 12:3 (NIV)
Here I stand. Testify against me in the presence of the Lord and his anointed. Whose ox have I taken? Whose donkey have I taken? Whom have I cheated? Whom have I oppressed? From whose hand have I accepted a bribe to make me shut my eyes? If I have done any of these things, I will make it right.”
1 Samuel 12:4 (NIV)
“You have not cheated or oppressed us,” they replied. “You have not taken anything from anyone’s hand.”
1 Samuel 12:5 (NIV)
Samuel said to them, “The Lord is witness against you, and also his anointed is witness this day, that you have not found anything in my hand.” “He is witness,” they said.
1 Samuel 12:6 (NIV)
Then Samuel said to the people, “It is the Lord who appointed Moses and Aaron and brought your ancestors up out of Egypt.
1 Samuel 12:7 (NIV)
Now then, stand here, because I am going to confront you with evidence before the Lord as to all the righteous acts performed by the Lord for you and your ancestors.
1 Samuel 12:8 (NIV)
“After Jacob entered Egypt, they cried to the Lord for help, and the Lord sent Moses and Aaron, who brought your ancestors out of Egypt and settled them in this place.
1 Samuel 12:9 (NIV)
“But they forgot the Lord their God; so he sold them into the hand of Sisera, the commander of the army of Hazor, and into the hands of the Philistines and the king of Moab, who fought against them.
1 Samuel 12:10 (NIV)
They cried out to the Lord and said, ‘We have sinned; we have forsaken the Lord and served the Baals and the Ashtoreths. But now deliver us from the hands of our enemies, and we will serve you.’
1 Samuel 12:11 (NIV)
Then the Lord sent Jerub-Baal, Barak, Jephthah and Samuel, and he delivered you from the hands of your enemies all around you, so that you lived in safety.