1 Chronicles 27
This chapter (1 Chron. 27:1-15) deals with the service of the king. As in all these enumerations, the number twelve with its factors is always mentioned. It indeed deals with what concerns the kingdom upon earth, having the twelve tribes as their center. There were army divisions of 24,000 men each for the twelve months of the year, one division for each month. Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, is especially mentioned among David's thirty mighty men (cf. 2 Sam. 23:20) as head of the third division. God delights to remember him.
The overseers of the treasures and of all the goods belonging to king David are enumerated in 1 Chron. 27:25-31.
1 Chron. 27:32-34 remind us of the sorrowful circumstances which accompanied David's career as responsible king, but there is no mention here of the "counsel of Ahithophel," nor of Absalom's rebellion, nor of Joab's treachery. All this does not enter, as we have often repeated, into the purpose of Chronicles. On the contrary, Hushai the Archite is mentioned opposite the simple reference to the name of Ahithophel; Jehoiada the son of Benaiah, one of the mighty men distinguished by David, opposite the name of Abiathar, whom Solomon drove from the priesthood, because he had supported the usurper Adonijah. Joab, great Joab, the captain of the army, the king's relative, the most influential man next to David, is mentioned with but a single phrase.