Now these [were] the men who came to David at Ziklag while he was still a fugitive from Saul the son of Kish; and they [were] among the mighty men, helpers in the war,
armed with bows, using both the right hand and the left in [hurling] stones and [shooting] arrows with the bow. [They were] of Benjamin, Saul's brethren.
[Some] Gadites joined David at the stronghold in the wilderness, mighty men of valor, men trained for battle, who could handle shield and spear, whose faces [were like] the faces of lions, and [were] as swift as gazelles on the mountains:
These [are] the ones who crossed the Jordan in the first month, when it had overflowed all its banks; and they put to flight all [those] in the valleys, to the east and to the west.
And David went out to meet them, and answered and said to them, "If you have come peaceably to me to help me, my heart will be united with you; but if to betray me to my enemies, since [there is] no wrong in my hands, may the God of our fathers look and bring judgment."
Then the Spirit came upon Amasai, chief of the captains, [and he said:] "[We are] yours, O David; We [are] on your side, O son of Jesse! Peace, peace to you, And peace to your helpers! For your God helps you." So David received them, and made them captains of the troop.
And [some] from Manasseh defected to David when he was going with the Philistines to battle against Saul; but they did not help them, for the lords of the Philistines sent him away by agreement, saying, "He may defect to his master Saul [and endanger] our heads."
When he went to Ziklag, those of Manasseh who defected to him were Adnah, Jozabad, Jediael, Michael, Jozabad, Elihu, and Zillethai, captains of the thousands who [were] from Manasseh.
Now these [were] the numbers of the divisions [that were] equipped for war, [and] came to David at Hebron to turn [over] the kingdom of Saul to him, according to the word of the LORD:
of the sons of Issachar who had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do, their chiefs were two hundred; and all their brethren were at their command;
of the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh, from the other side of the Jordan, one hundred and twenty thousand armed for battle with every [kind] of weapon of war.
All these men of war, who could keep ranks, came to Hebron with a loyal heart, to make David king over all Israel; and all the rest of Israel [were] of one mind to make David king.
Moreover those who were near to them, from as far away as Issachar and Zebulun and Naphtali, were bringing food on donkeys and camels, on mules and oxen -- provisions of flour and cakes of figs and cakes of raisins, wine and oil and oxen and sheep abundantly, for [there was] joy in Israel.