1 Chronicles 21:5

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And Joab gave David the number of all the people; all the men of Israel, able to take up arms, were one million, one hundred thousand men; and those of Judah were four hundred and seventy thousand men, able to take up arms.

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Sam 24:9 : 9 And Joab gave the king the number of all the people: there were in Israel eight hundred thousand fighting men able to take up arms; and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand.
  • 1 Chr 27:23 : 23 But David did not take the number of those who were under twenty years old, for the Lord had said that he would make Israel like the stars of heaven in number.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2 Sam 24:9
    89%

    9 And Joab gave the king the number of all the people: there were in Israel eight hundred thousand fighting men able to take up arms; and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand.

  • Judg 20:17
    82%

    17 And the men of Israel, other than Benjamin, were four hundred thousand in number, all armed with swords; they were all men of war.

  • Judg 20:2
    82%

    2 And the chiefs of the people, out of all the tribes of Israel, took their places in the meeting of the people of God, four hundred thousand footmen armed with swords.

  • 1 Sam 15:4
    79%

    4 And Saul sent for the people and had them numbered in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen and ten thousand men of Judah.

  • 1 Chr 21:2-4
    3 verses
    79%

    2 And David said to Joab and the captains of the people, Now let all Israel, from Beer-sheba to Dan, be numbered; and give me word so that I may be certain of their number.

    3 And Joab said, May the Lord make his people a hundred times more in number than they are; but, my lord king, are they not all my lord's servants? why would my lord have this done? why will he become a cause of sin to Israel?

    4 But the king's word was stronger than Joab's. So Joab went out and went through all Israel and came to Jerusalem.

  • 1 Chr 12:23-25
    3 verses
    78%

    23 These are the numbers of the chiefs of the armed men, ready for war, who came to David at Hebron, to give the kingdom of Saul into his hands, as the Lord had said.

    24 There were six thousand, eight hundred spearmen of the children of Judah, armed for war;

    25 Seven thousand, one hundred of the children of Simeon, great men of war;

  • 1 Sam 11:8
    77%

    8 And he had them numbered in Bezek: the children of Israel were three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty thousand.

  • 2 Chr 17:14-15
    2 verses
    77%

    14 This is the number of them, listed by their families, the captains of thousands of Judah: Adnah, the captain, and with him three hundred thousand men of war;

    15 Second to him Jehohanan, the captain, and with him two hundred and eighty thousand;

  • 1 Chr 12:37
    77%

    37 From the other side of Jordan, there were a hundred and twenty thousand of the Reubenites and the Gadites and the men of the half-tribe of Manasseh, armed with every sort of instrument of war.

  • 2 Chr 14:8
    77%

    8 And Asa had an army of three hundred thousand men of Judah armed with body-covers and spears, and two hundred and eighty thousand of Benjamin armed with body-covers and bows; all these were men of war.

  • Num 1:26-27
    2 verses
    77%

    26 The generations of the sons of Judah were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over who was able to go to war;

    27 Seventy-four thousand, six hundred of the tribe of Judah were numbered.

  • 2 Chr 17:18
    76%

    18 And after him Jehozabad, and with him a hundred and eighty thousand trained for war.

  • Num 2:8-9
    2 verses
    76%

    8 The number of his army was fifty-seven thousand, four hundred.

    9 The number of all the armies of Judah was a hundred and eighty-six thousand, four hundred. They go forward first.

  • 1 Kgs 12:21
    76%

    21 When Rehoboam came to Jerusalem, he got together all the men of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin, a hundred and eighty thousand of his best fighting-men, to make war against Israel and get the kingdom back for Rehoboam, the son of Solomon.

  • 1 Chr 21:6
    76%

    6 But Levi and Benjamin were not numbered among them, for Joab was disgusted with the king's order.

  • Judg 20:15
    76%

    15 And the children of Benjamin who came that day from the towns were twenty-six thousand men armed with swords, in addition to the people of Gibeah, numbering seven hundred of the best fighting-men,

  • 2 Sam 18:1
    76%

    1 And David had the people who were with him numbered, and he put over them captains of thousands and captains of hundreds.

  • 2 Sam 24:2-4
    3 verses
    76%

    2 And the king said to Joab and the captains of the army, who were with him, Go now through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan as far as Beer-sheba, and have all the people numbered, so that I may be certain of the number of the people.

    3 And Joab said to the king, Whatever the number of the people, may the Lord make it a hundred times as much, and may the eyes of my lord the king see it: but why does my lord the king take pleasure in doing this thing?

    4 But the king's order was stronger than Joab and the captains of the army. And Joab and the captains of the army went out from the king, to take the number of the children of Israel.

  • 2 Chr 11:1
    76%

    1 And Rehoboam came to Jerusalem, and got together the men of Judah and Benjamin, a hundred and eighty thousand of his best fighting-men, to make war against Israel and get the kingdom back for Rehoboam.

  • 1 Chr 5:18
    75%

    18 There were forty-four thousand, seven hundred and sixty of the sons of Reuben and of the Gadites and of the half-tribe of Manasseh, all strong men, expert in the use of the body-cover, the sword, and the bow, and in the art of war, all able to take up arms.

  • Num 1:46
    75%

    46 Were six hundred and three thousand, five hundred and fifty.

  • Num 26:51
    75%

    51 Those who were numbered of the children of Israel were six hundred and one thousand, seven hundred and thirty.

  • 2 Chr 26:12-13
    2 verses
    75%

    12 The heads of families, the strong men of war, were two thousand, six hundred.

    13 And under their orders was a trained army of three hundred and seven thousand, five hundred, of great strength in war, helping the king against any who came against him.

  • 2 Chr 2:17
    75%

    17 Then Solomon took the number of all the men from strange lands who were living in Israel, as his father David had done; there were a hundred and fifty-three thousand, six hundred.

  • 2 Chr 25:5
    75%

    5 Then Amaziah got all Judah together and put them in order by their families, even all Judah and Benjamin, under captains of thousands and captains of hundreds: and he had those of twenty years old and over numbered, and they came to three hundred thousand of the best fighting-men, trained for war and in the use of the spear and the body-cover.

  • 2 Chr 13:3
    75%

    3 And Abijah went out to the fight with an army of men of war, four hundred thousand of his best men; and Jeroboam put his forces in line against him, eight hundred thousand of his best men of war.

  • Num 2:4
    75%

    4 The number of his army was seventy-four thousand, six hundred.

  • Num 2:23
    74%

    23 The number of his army was thirty-five thousand, four hundred.

  • Num 31:36
    74%

    36 And the half given as their part to the men who went to the war, was three hundred and thirty-seven thousand, five hundred sheep,

  • 2 Sam 6:1
    74%

    1 And David got together all the fighting-men of Israel to the number of thirty thousand;

  • Num 31:4-5
    2 verses
    74%

    4 From every tribe of Israel send a thousand to the war.

    5 So from the thousands of Israel a thousand were taken from every tribe, twelve thousand men armed for war.

  • 2 Sam 18:7
    74%

    7 And the people of Israel were overcome there by the servants of David, and there was a great destruction that day, and twenty thousand men were put to the sword.

  • 1 Kgs 20:15
    74%

    15 Then he got together the servants of all the chiefs who were over the divisions of the land, two hundred and thirty-two of them; and after them, he got together all the people, all the children of Israel, seven thousand.

  • 1 Chr 7:11
    74%

    11 All these were the sons of Jediael, by the heads of their families, seventeen thousand, two hundred men of war, able to go out with the army for war.

  • 2 Chr 13:17
    73%

    17 And Abijah and his people put them to death with great destruction: five hundred thousand of the best of Israel were put to the sword.

  • 2 Sam 10:7
    73%

    7 And hearing of this, David sent Joab and all the army and the best fighting-men.

  • 1 Sam 25:13
    73%

    13 And David said to his men, Put on your swords, every one of you. And every man put on his sword; and David did the same; and about four hundred men went up with David, and two hundred kept watch over their goods.

  • 1 Chr 7:9
    72%

    9 And they were recorded by their generations, heads of their families, great men of war, twenty thousand, two hundred.