¹And the children of Israel by their number, the heads of the fathers and the officials of the thousands and the hundreds and their officers who served the king, for every word of the divisions that comes and that goes forth, month by month for all the months of the year, each division was twenty-four thousand.

²Over the first division, for the first month, was Jashobeam the son of Zabdiel, and over his division, twenty-four thousand.

³Of the children of Perez, the head of all the captains of the armies for the first month.

⁴And over the division of the month second was Dodai the Ahohite, and his division, and Mikloth the ruler; and over his division were twenty-four thousand.

⁵The captain of the third host, for the third month, was Benaiah the son of Jehoiada the priest, as head; and over his division, twenty-four thousand.

⁶He was Benaiah, the mighty man of the thirty and over the thirty; and his division was Ammizabad his son.

⁷The fourth, for the month fourth, was Asahel the brother of Joab, and Zebadiah his son after him; and over his division, twenty-four thousand.

⁸The fifth, for the fifth month, was the captain Shamhuth the Izrahite; and over his division, twenty-four thousand.

⁹The sixth, for the sixth month, was Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite; and over his division were twenty-four thousand.

¹⁰The seventh, for the seventh month, was Helez the Pelonite, from the children of Ephraim; and over his division were twenty-four thousand.

¹¹The eighth, for the eighth month, was Sibbecai the Hushathite, of the Zerahites; and over his division were twenty-four thousand.

¹²The ninth, for the ninth month, was Abiezer the Anathothite, of the Benjaminites; and over his division were twenty-four thousand.

¹³The tenth, for the tenth month, was Maharai the Netophathite, of the Zerahites; and over his division were twenty-four thousand.

¹⁴The eleventh, for the eleventh month, was Benaiah the Pirathonite, from the children of Ephraim; and over his division were twenty-four thousand.

¹⁵The twelfth, for the twelfth month, was Heldai the Netophathite, of Othniel; and over his division were twenty-four thousand.

¹⁶And over the tribes of Israel: of the Reubenites, the ruler was Eliezer the son of Zikri; of the Simeonites, Shephatiah the son of Maacah;

¹⁷Of Levi, Hashabiah the son of Kemuel; of Aaron, Zadok;

¹⁸of Judah, Elihu, from the brothers of David; of Issachar, Omri the son of Michael;

¹⁹Of Zebulun, Ishmaiah the son of Obadiah; of Naphtali, Jerimoth the son of Azriel;

²⁰To the children of Ephraim: Hoshea the son of Azaziah; to the half of the tribe of Manasseh: Joel the son of Pedaiah.

²¹Of the half of Manasseh in Gilead, Iddo the son of Zechariah; of Benjamin, Jaasiel the son of Abner;

²²Of Dan, Azarel the son of Jeroham. These were the officials of the tribes of Israel.

²³And David did not take their number from those twenty years old and under, for Yahweh had said he would multiply Israel like the stars of the skies.

²⁴Joab the son of Zeruiah began to count, but did not finish; and there was wrath upon Israel because of this, and the number did not go up in the tally of the word of the days of King David.

²⁵And over the storehouses of the king was Azmaveth the son of Adiel; and over the storehouses in the field, in the cities, in the villages, and in the towers was Jonathan the son of Uzziah.

²⁶and over those who did the work of the field for the labor of the ground was Ezri the son of Kelub;

²⁷and over the vineyards was Shimei the Ramathite; and over what was in the vineyards, for the storehouses of the wine, was Zabdi the Shiphmite;

²⁸And over the olive trees and the sycamores that were in the lowland was Baal-Hanan the Gederite; and over the storehouses of the oil was Joash.

²⁹and over the cattle that were pastured in Sharon was Shirtai the Sharonite; and over the cattle in the vales was Shaphat the son of Adlai;

³⁰and over the camels was Obil the Ishmaelite; and over the female donkeys was Jehdeiah the Meronothite;

³¹and over the flock was Jaziz the Hagrite. All these were the officials of the property that belonged to King David.

³²And Jonathan the uncle of David was a counselor, a discerning man, and he was a scribe; and Jehiel the son of Hacmoni was with the children of the king.

³³And Ahithophel was counselor to the king, and Hushai the Arkite was the friend of the king.

³⁴And after Ahithophel came Jehoiada the son of Benaiah, and Abiathar; and the captain of the king's host was Joab.