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Joab reported to David the number of warriors.[a] In all Israel there were 1,100,000 sword-wielding[b] soldiers; Judah alone had 470,000 sword-wielding soldiers.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Chronicles 21:5 tn Heb “and Joab gave to David the number of the numbering of the army [or “people”].”
  2. 1 Chronicles 21:5 tn Heb “a thousand thousands and 100,000.”
  3. 1 Chronicles 21:5 tc The parallel text in 2 Sam 24:9 has variant figures: “In Israel there were 800,000 sword-wielding warriors, and in Judah there were 500,000 soldiers.”

Joab reported the number of the fighting men to David: In all Israel(A) there were one million one hundred thousand men who could handle a sword, including four hundred and seventy thousand in Judah.

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Then Joab gave the sum of the number of the people to David. All Israel had one million one hundred thousand men who drew the sword, and Judah had four hundred and seventy thousand men who drew the sword.

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