And Joab gave the sum of the number of the people unto David. And all they of Israel were a thousand thousand and an hundred thousand men that drew sword: and Judah was four hundred threescore and ten thousand men that drew sword.

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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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24 Joab the son of Zeruiah began to number, but he finished not, because there fell wrath for it against Israel; neither was the number put in the account of the chronicles of king David.

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24 Joab son of Zeruiah began to count the men but did not finish. God’s wrath came on Israel on account of this numbering,(A) and the number was not entered in the book[a] of the annals of King David.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Chronicles 27:24 Septuagint; Hebrew number

24 Joab the son of Zeruiah began a census, but he did not finish, for (A)wrath came upon Israel because of this census; nor was the number recorded in the account of the chronicles of King David.

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