2 Samuel 24:9

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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  • Num 1:44-46 : 44 These are they who were numbered by Moses and Aaron and by the twelve chiefs of Israel, one from every tribe. 45 So all those who were numbered of the children of Israel, by their families, all those of twenty years old and over who were able to go to war, 46 Were six hundred and three thousand, five hundred and fifty.
  • 1 Chr 21:5-6 : 5 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. 6 But Levi and Benjamin were not numbered among them, for Joab was disgusted with the king's order.
  • 1 Chr 27:23-24 : 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. 24 The numbering was started by Joab, the son of Zeruiah, but he did not go on to the end; and because of it, wrath came on Israel and the number was not recorded in the history of King David.

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  • 1 Chr 21:5-6
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    89%

    5And 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.

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

  • 1 Chr 12:23-25
    3 verses
    80%

    23These 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.

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

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

  • Judg 20:17
    80%

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

  • 1 Sam 11:8
    79%

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

  • Judg 20:2
    79%

    2And 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.

  • 2 Chr 14:8
    78%

    8And 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.

  • 2 Sam 24:2-4
    3 verses
    76%

    2And 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.

    3And 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?

    4But 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 13:17
    76%

    17And 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 Chr 17:14-15
    2 verses
    75%

    14This 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;

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

  • 1 Sam 15:4
    75%

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

  • 2 Chr 17:17-18
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    75%

    17And the captains of Benjamin: Eliada, a great man of war, and with him two hundred thousand armed with bows and body-covers;

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

  • 2 Chr 13:3
    75%

    3And 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.

  • 2 Chr 25:5-6
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    75%

    5Then 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.

    6And for a hundred talents of silver, he got a hundred thousand fighting-men from Israel.

  • 2 Chr 26:12-13
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    75%

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

    13And 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.

  • 1 Chr 7:9
    74%

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

  • Num 2:23
    74%

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

  • Num 2:8-9
    2 verses
    74%

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

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

  • 1 Chr 5:18
    74%

    18There 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.

  • 2 Sam 24:10
    74%

    10And after the people had been numbered, David's heart was troubled. And David said to the Lord, Great has been my sin in doing this; but now, O Lord, be pleased to take away the sin of your servant, for I have done very foolishly

  • 2 Sam 18:7
    74%

    7And 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.

  • 2 Sam 18:1
    74%

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

  • 1 Chr 21:2-3
    2 verses
    74%

    2And 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.

    3And 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?

  • 1 Chr 12:37
    74%

    37From 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.

  • Judg 20:15
    74%

    15And 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 8:5
    73%

    5And when the Aramaeans of Damascus came to the help of Hadadezer, king of Zobah, David put to the sword twenty-two thousand of the Aramaeans.

  • 1 Chr 19:8
    73%

    8And David, hearing of it, sent Joab with all the army of fighting-men.

  • 1 Chr 12:30
    73%

    30And of the children of Ephraim, twenty thousand, eight hundred great men of war, men of great name in their families.

  • Num 1:46
    73%

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

  • Num 2:32
    73%

    32These are all who were numbered of the children of Israel, in the order of their fathers' families: all the armies in their tents together came to six hundred and three thousand, five hundred and fifty.

  • 2 Chr 11:1
    73%

    1And 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 Kgs 20:15
    73%

    15Then 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.

  • 2 Chr 2:17
    73%

    17Then 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 Sam 24:8
    73%

    8So after going through all the land in every direction, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.

  • 1 Kgs 12:21
    72%

    21When 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 27:1
    72%

    1Now the number of the children of Israel, that is, the heads of families, and the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and the men in authority who were servants of the king in anything to do with the divisions which came in and went out month by month through all the months of the year, in every division were twenty-four thousand.

  • Ezra 8:9
    72%

    9Of the sons of Joab, Obadiah, the son of Jehiel; and with him two hundred and eighteen males.

  • 1 Chr 7:11
    72%

    11All 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.

  • 1 Sam 25:13
    71%

    13And 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.