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David counts his soldiers

24 The Lord again became angry with the Israelites. So he caused David to bring trouble to them. He said to David, ‘Send men to count the people in Israel and Judah.’

So the king said to Joab, the leader of his army, ‘Go from Dan to Beersheba, through all the tribes of Israel.[a] Count all the men who can fight. I want to know how many men there are.’

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Footnotes

  1. 24:2 ‘from Dan to Beersheba’ was the whole country. Dan was at the north border of Israel. Beersheba was near the south border.