Bible verse
From Judah: 6,800 armed troops bearing shields and spears.
1 Chronicles 12:24 · BSB
The verses around it, from 1 Chronicles 12.
20 When David went to Ziklag, these men of Manasseh defected to him: Adnah, Jozabad, Jediael, Michael, Jozabad, Elihu, and Zillethai, chiefs of thousands in Manasseh.
21 They helped David against the raiders, for they were all mighty men of valor and commanders in the army.
22 For at that time men came to David day after day to help him, until he had a great army, like the army of God.
23 Now these are the numbers of men armed for battle who came to David at Hebron to turn Saul’s kingdom over to him, in accordance with the word of the LORD:
24 From Judah: 6,800 armed troops bearing shields and spears.
25 From Simeon: 7,100 mighty men of valor, ready for battle.
26 From Levi: 4,600,
27 including Jehoiada, leader of the house of Aaron, with 3,700 men,
28 and Zadok, a mighty young man of valor, with 22 commanders from his own family.
KJV
The children of Judah that bare shield and spear [were] six thousand and eight hundred, ready armed to the war.
ASV
The children of Judah that bare shield and spear were six thousand and eight hundred, armed for war.
ERV
The children of Judah that bare shield and spear were six thousand and eight hundred, armed for war.
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