In times past, even when Saul was king, it was you who led out and brought in Israel; and the Lord your God said to you, ‘You shall shepherd My people Israel, and you shall be prince and leader over My people Israel.’”

David consulted with the captains of the thousands and the hundreds, even with every leader.

So David did just as God had commanded him, and they struck down the army of the Philistines from Gibeon as far as Gezer.

When you were few in number,
Even a very few, and strangers in it,

To these divisions of the gatekeepers, the chief men, were given duties, like their relatives, to minister in the house of the Lord.