◄ 2 Samuel 24:9 ►
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Good News Translation
They reported to the king the total number of men capable of military service: 800,000 in Israel and 500,000 in Judah.

New Revised Standard Version
Joab reported to the king the number of those who had been recorded: in Israel there were eight hundred thousand soldiers able to draw the sword, and those of Judah were five hundred thousand.

Contemporary English Version
Joab came and told David, "In Israel there are 800,000 who can serve in the army, and in Judah there are 500,000."

New American Bible
Joab then reported the census figures to the king: of men capable of wielding a sword, there were in Israel eight hundred thousand, and in Judah five hundred thousand.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Joab gave up the sum of the number of the people to the king, and there were found of Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men that drew the sword: and of Juda five hundred thousand fighting men.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And Joab gave up the sum of the number of the people to the king, and there were found of Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men that drew the sword: and of Juda five hundred thousand fighting men.

eight hundred thousand

1 Chronicles 21:5,6 And he gave David the number of them, whom he had surveyed: and all the number of Israel was found to be eleven hundred thousand men that drew the sword: and of Juda four hundred and seventy thousand fighting men. . . .

1 Chronicles 27:23,24 But David would not number them from twenty years old and under: because the lord had said that he would multiply Israel like the stars of heaven. . . .

Context
David's Military Census
…8And having gone through the whole land, after nine months and twenty days, they came to Jerusalem. 9And Joab gave up the sum of the number of the people to the king, and there were found of Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men that drew the sword: and of Juda five hundred thousand fighting men.
Cross References
Numbers 1:26
Of the sons of Juda, by their generations and families and houses of their kindreds, by the names of every one from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war,

Numbers 1:44
These are they who were numbered by Moses and Aaron, and the twelve princes of Israel, every one by the houses of their kindreds.

2 Samuel 24:8
And having gone through the whole land, after nine months and twenty days, they came to Jerusalem.

1 Chronicles 21:5
And he gave David the number of them, whom he had surveyed: and all the number of Israel was found to be eleven hundred thousand men that drew the sword: and of Juda four hundred and seventy thousand fighting men.

2 Samuel 24:8
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