The administrators of the twelve tribes

16 This is a list of the administrators of the twelve tribes [DOU] of Israel:

• Eliezer, the son of Zicri, was the administrator of the tribe of Reuben.
• Shephatiah, the son of Maacah, was the administrator of the tribe of Simeon.
• 17 Hashabiah, the son of Kemuel, was the administrator of the tribe of Levi.
• Zadok was the administrator of the tribe of Aaron.
• 18 Elihu, David’s older brother, was the administrator of the tribe of Judah.
• Omri, the son of Michael, was the administrator of the tribe of Issachar.
• 19 Ishmaiah, the son of Obadiah, was the administrator of the tribe of Zebulun.
• Jerimoth, the son of Azriel, was the administrator of the tribe of Naphtali.
• 20 Hoshea, the son of Azaziah, was the administrator of the tribe of Ephraim.
• Joel, the son of Pedaiah, was the administrator of the tribe of the western half of the tribe of Manasseh.
• 21 Iddo, the son of Zechariah, was the administrator of the eastern half of the tribe of Manasseh, in the Gilead region.
• Jaasiel, the son of Abner, was the administrator of the tribe of Benjamin.
• 22 Azarel, the son of Jeroham, was the administrator of the tribe of Dan.
• Those were the leaders over the tribes of Israel.

23 When David told Joab to count the men of Israel, he did not tell him to count the men who were less then 20 years old, because Yahweh had promised many years previously that there would be as many people in Israel as there are stars in the sky. 24 Joab and his helpers started to count the men of Israel, but they did not finish counting them because Joab knew that Yahweh was angry about their being counted. Yahweh punished [MTY] the people of Israel because of this counting, and as a result the total number of Israeli men able to serve in the army was not written on the scroll about King David’s rule.