2 Samuel 24:9

World English Bible (2000)

Joab gave up the sum of the numbering of the people to the king: and there were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men who drew the sword; and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand men.

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  • Num 1:44-46 : 44 These are those who were numbered, whom Moses and Aaron numbered, and the princes of Israel, being twelve men: they were each one for his fathers' house. 45 So all those who were numbered of the children of Israel by their fathers' houses, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war in Israel; 46 even all those who were numbered were six hundred three thousand five hundred fifty.
  • 1 Chr 21:5-6 : 5 Joab gave up the sum of the numbering of the people to David. All those of Israel were one million one hundred thousand men who drew sword: and in Judah were four hundred seventy thousand men who drew sword. 6 But he didn't count Levi and Benjamin among them; for the king's word was abominable to Joab.
  • 1 Chr 27:23-24 : 23 But David didn't take the number of them from twenty years old and under, because Yahweh had said he would increase Israel like the stars of the sky. 24 Joab the son of Zeruiah began to number, but didn't finish; and there came wrath for this on Israel; neither was the number put into the account in the chronicles of king David.

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  • 1 Chr 21:5-6
    2 verses
    89%

    5 Joab gave up the sum of the numbering of the people to David. All those of Israel were one million one hundred thousand men who drew sword: and in Judah were four hundred seventy thousand men who drew sword.

    6 But he didn't count Levi and Benjamin among them; for the king's word was abominable to Joab.

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

    23 These are the numbers of the heads of those who were armed for war, who came to David to Hebron, to turn the kingdom of Saul to him, according to the word of Yahweh.

    24 The children of Judah who bore shield and spear were six thousand and eight hundred, armed for war.

    25 Of the children of Simeon, mighty men of valor for the war, seven thousand and one hundred.

  • Judg 20:17
    80%

    17 The men of Israel, besides Benjamin, were numbered four hundred thousand men who drew sword: all these were men of war.

  • 1 Sam 11:8
    79%

    8 He numbered them in Bezek; and the children of Israel were three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty thousand.

  • Judg 20:2
    79%

    2 The chiefs of all the people, even of all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God, four hundred thousand footmen who drew sword.

  • 2 Chr 14:8
    78%

    8 Asa had an army that bore bucklers and spears, out of Judah three hundred thousand; and out of Benjamin, that bore shields and drew bows, two hundred eighty thousand: all these were mighty men of valor.

  • 2 Sam 24:2-4
    3 verses
    76%

    2 The king said to Joab the captain of the army, who was with him, "Now go back and forth through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan even to Beersheba, and number the people, that I may know the sum of the people."

    3 Joab said to the king, "Now may Yahweh your God add to the people, however many they may be, one hundred times; and may the eyes of my lord the king see it. But why does my lord the king delight in this thing?"

    4 Notwithstanding, the king's word prevailed against Joab, and against the captains of the army. Joab and the captains of the army went out from the presence of the king, to number the people of Israel.

  • 2 Chr 13:17
    76%

    17 Abijah and his people killed them with a great slaughter: so there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men.

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

    14 This was the numbering of them according to their fathers' houses: Of Judah, the captains of thousands: Adnah the captain, and with him mighty men of valor three hundred thousand;

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

  • 1 Sam 15:4
    75%

    4 Saul summoned the people, and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah.

  • 2 Chr 17:17-18
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    75%

    17 Of Benjamin: Eliada a mighty man of valor, and with him two hundred thousand armed with bow and shield;

    18 and next to him Jehozabad and with him one hundred eighty thousand ready prepared for war.

  • 2 Chr 13:3
    75%

    3 Abijah joined battle with an army of valiant men of war, even four hundred thousand chosen men: and Jeroboam set the battle in array against him with eight hundred thousand chosen men, who were mighty men of valor.

  • 2 Chr 25:5-6
    2 verses
    75%

    5 Moreover Amaziah gathered Judah together, and ordered them according to their fathers' houses, under captains of thousands and captains of hundreds, even all Judah and Benjamin: and he numbered them from twenty years old and upward, and found them three hundred thousand chosen men, able to go forth to war, who could handle spear and shield.

    6 He hired also one hundred thousand mighty men of valor out of Israel for one hundred talents of silver.

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

    12 The whole number of the heads of fathers' [houses], even the mighty men of valor, was two thousand and six hundred.

    13 Under their hand was an army, three hundred thousand and seven thousand and five hundred, who made war with mighty power, to help the king against the enemy.

  • 1 Chr 7:9
    74%

    9 They were reckoned by genealogy, after their generations, heads of their fathers' houses, mighty men of valor, twenty thousand two hundred.

  • Num 2:23
    74%

    23 His army, and those who were numbered of them, were thirty-five thousand four hundred.

  • Num 2:8-9
    2 verses
    74%

    8 His division, and those who were numbered of it, were fifty-seven thousand four hundred.

    9 All who were numbered of the camp of Judah were one hundred eighty-six thousand four hundred, according to their divisions. They shall set out first.

  • 1 Chr 5:18
    74%

    18 The sons of Reuben, and the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, of valiant men, men able to bear buckler and sword, and to shoot with bow, and skillful in war, were forty-four thousand seven hundred and sixty, that were able to go forth to war.

  • 2 Sam 24:10
    74%

    10 David's heart struck him after that he had numbered the people. David said to Yahweh, "I have sinned greatly in that which I have done. But now, Yahweh, put away, I beg you, the iniquity of your servant; for I have done very foolishly."

  • 2 Sam 18:7
    74%

    7 The people of Israel were struck there before the servants of David, and there was a great slaughter there that day of twenty thousand men.

  • 2 Sam 18:1
    74%

    1 David numbered the people who were with him, and set captains of thousands and captains of hundreds over them.

  • 1 Chr 21:2-3
    2 verses
    74%

    2 David said to Joab and to the princes of the people, "Go, number Israel from Beersheba even to Dan; and bring me word, that I may know the sum of them."

    3 Joab said, "May Yahweh make his people a hundred times as many as they are. But, my lord the king, aren't they all my lord's servants? Why does my lord require this thing? Why will he be a cause of guilt to Israel?"

  • 1 Chr 12:37
    74%

    37 On the other side of the Jordan, of the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and of the half-tribe of Manasseh, with all kinds of instruments of war for the battle, one hundred twenty thousand.

  • Judg 20:15
    74%

    15 The children of Benjamin were numbered on that day out of the cities twenty-six thousand men who drew the sword, besides the inhabitants of Gibeah, who were numbered seven hundred chosen men.

  • 2 Sam 8:5
    73%

    5 When the Syrians of Damascus came to help Hadadezer king of Zobah, David struck of the Syrians two and twenty thousand men.

  • 1 Chr 19:8
    73%

    8 When David heard of it, he sent Joab, and all the army of the mighty men.

  • 1 Chr 12:30
    73%

    30 Of the children of Ephraim twenty thousand eight hundred, mighty men of valor, famous men in their fathers' houses.

  • Num 1:46
    73%

    46 even all those who were numbered were six hundred three thousand five hundred fifty.

  • Num 2:32
    73%

    32 These are those who were numbered of the children of Israel by their fathers' houses. All who were numbered of the camps according to their armies were six hundred three thousand five hundred fifty.

  • 2 Chr 11:1
    73%

    1 When Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he assembled the house of Judah and Benjamin, one hundred eighty thousand chosen men, who were warriors, to fight against Israel, to bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam.

  • 1 Kgs 20:15
    73%

    15 Then he mustered the young men of the princes of the provinces, and they were two hundred and thirty-two. After them, he mustered all the people, even all the children of Israel, being seven thousand.

  • 2 Chr 2:17
    73%

    17 Solomon numbered all the foreigners who were in the land of Israel, after the numbering with which David his father had numbered them; and they were found one hundred fifty-three thousand six hundred.

  • 2 Sam 24:8
    73%

    8 So when they had gone back and forth through all the land, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.

  • 1 Kgs 12:21
    72%

    21 When Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he assembled all the house of Judah, and the tribe of Benjamin, a hundred and eighty thousand chosen men, who were warriors, to fight against the house of Israel, to bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam the son of Solomon.

  • 1 Chr 27:1
    72%

    1 Now the children of Israel after their number, the heads of fathers' [houses] and the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and their officers who served the king, in any matter of the divisions which came in and went out month by month throughout all the months of the year--of every division were twenty-four thousand.

  • Ezra 8:9
    72%

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

  • 1 Chr 7:11
    72%

    11 All these were sons of Jediael, according to the heads of their fathers' [houses], mighty men of valor, seventeen thousand and two hundred, who were able to go forth in the army for war.

  • 1 Sam 25:13
    71%

    13 David said to his men, "Every man put on his sword!" Every man put on his sword. David also put on his sword. About four hundred men followed David; and two hundred stayed by the baggage.