Of the Benjaminites, the kinsmen of Saul, 3,000, of whom the majority had to that point kept their allegiance to the house of Saul.
They were bowmen and could shoot arrows and sling stones with either the right or the left hand; they were Benjaminites, Saul’s kinsmen.
he took his kinsmen with him and pursued him for seven days and followed close after him into the hill country of Gilead.
Abner also spoke to Benjamin. And then Abner went to tell David at Hebron all that Israel and the whole house of Benjamin thought good to do.
Of the Ephraimites 20,800, mighty men of valor, famous men in their fathers’ houses.
and Zadok the son of Ahitub and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar were priests, and Seraiah was secretary,
for Levi, Hashabiah the son of Kemuel; for Aaron, Zadok;