Of the Ephraimites 20,800, mighty men of valor, famous men in their fathers' houses.
The Nephilim[2] were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of man and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men who were of old, the men of renown.
But Abner the son of Ner, commander of Saul's army, took Ish-bosheth the son of Saul and brought him over to Mahanaim,
and he made him king over Gilead and the Ashurites and Jezreel and Ephraim and Benjamin and all Israel.
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 Benjaminites, the kinsmen of Saul, 3,000, of whom the majority had to that point kept their allegiance to the house of Saul.
Of the half-tribe of Manasseh 18,000, who were expressly named to come and make David king.