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Benjaminite households prepare travel bags and shields.
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1 Chronicles 12:30-32

Benjamin, Ephraim, and Manasseh

Helpers Gather to David · 1 Chronicles 12

Story guide: Benjamin, Ephraim, and half-Manasseh appear in separate household and arrival contexts. Benjamin’s earlier loyalty to Saul remains in the text without an invented confrontation.

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30And from the sons of Benjamin, Saul’s brothers, three thousand; until then most of them had been keeping watch over the house of Saul.

31And from the sons of Ephraim, twenty thousand eight hundred mighty men of valor, men of renown according to their fathers’ houses.

32And from the half-tribe of Manasseh, eighteen thousand, who were designated by name, came to make David king.

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