1 Chronicles 27:14
The eleventh captain for the eleventh month was Benaiah the Pirathonite, of the children of Ephraim: and in his course were twenty and four thousand. The eleventh captain for the eleventh month was Benaiah the Pirathonite, of the children of Ephraim: and in his course were twenty and four thousand.
The eleventh captain for the eleventh month stands in the closing account of David's reign. It belongs to the record of Israel's regular army, organized in monthly courses of service. The full list from 1 Chronicles 27:1-15 shows the year divided into twelve months, with a captain and a course of 24,000 men assigned to each month, establishing twelve months in the biblical year. With thirty days to a Bible month, that twelve-month pattern yields a 360-day year used in calculating prophetic time. That regular army in monthly courses was included in the larger army total in 1 Chronicles 21:5 but not in the total in 2 Samuel 24:9.