DAVID’S SECULAR OFFICIALS

27 This is the list of the Israelites, the family heads, the commanders of thousands and the commanders of hundreds, and their officers who served the king in every matter to do with the divisions that were on rotated military duty each month throughoutB the year. There were 24,000 in each division:

2 Jashobeam son of Zabdiel was in charge of the first division,g for the first month; 24,000 were in his division.