历代志上 27:1

以色列人的族长、千夫长、百夫长，和官长都分定班次，每班是二万四千人，周年按月轮流，替换出入服事王。

Now the children of Israel after their number, to wit, the chief fathers and captains of thousands and hundreds, and their officers that served the king in any matter of the courses, which came in and went out month by month throughout all the months of the year, of every course were twenty and four thousand.