📖WEB · 1 Chronicles 12:28
What does 1 Chronicles 12:28 mean?
"and Zadok, a young man mighty of valor, and of his father’s house twenty-two captains."
— 1 Chronicles 12:28 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
Of the children of Simeon, mighty men of valor for the war, seven thousand one hundred.
Of the children of Levi four thousand six hundred.
Jehoiada was the leader of the household of Aaron; and with him were three thousand seven hundred,
and Zadok, a young man mighty of valor, and of his father’s house twenty-two captains.
Of the children of Benjamin, Saul’s relatives, three thousand: for until then, the greatest part of them had kept their allegiance to Saul’s house.
Of the children of Ephraim twenty thousand eight hundred, mighty men of valor, famous men in their fathers’ houses.
Of the half-tribe of Manasseh eighteen thousand, who were mentioned by name, to come and make David king.
Explanation
First Chronicles 12:28 comes from a long list of names describing the warriors who rallied to David at Hebron
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