2 Samuel 24:7-9

Common English Bible

⁷ They went to the fortress of Tyre and to all the towns of the Hivites and the Canaanites. They went out to Beer-sheba in the arid southern plain of Judah. ⁸ At the end of nine months and twenty days, after going through the entire country, they came back to Jerusalem. ⁹ Joab reported to the king the number of the people who had been counted: in Israel there were eight hundred thousand strong men who could handle a sword; in Judah the total was five hundred thousand men.