And came to the fortress of [a]Tyre and to all the cities of the Hivites and of the Canaanites, and went toward the South of Judah, even to Beersheba.

¶ So when they had gone about all the land, they returned to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.

¶ And Joab delivered the number and sum of the people unto the King: and there were in Israel [b]eight hundred thousand strong men that drew swords, and the men of Judah were [c]five hundred thousand men.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 24:7 Or, Zor.
  2. 2 Samuel 24:9 According to Joab’s count: for in all there were eleven hundred thousand, 1 Chron. 21:5.
  3. 2 Samuel 24:9 Concluding under them the Benjamites: for else they had but four hundred and seventy thousand, 1 Chron. 21:5.

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