1 Chronicles 27:1-2

New Catholic Bible

Chapter 27

Commanders of the Army. ¹ This is the list of the leaders of the ancestral clans of the Israelites, the captains of the thousands and the hundreds, the officials who served the king in anything concerning going out or coming in as they were on duty from month to month, all throughout the year. Each division had twenty-four thousand men.

² Ishbaal, the son of Zabdiel, was in charge of the first division for the first month. There were twenty-four thousand men in his division.