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and arrived at the fortified city of Tyre and all of the towns of the Hivites and Canaanites.

Eventually they proceeded to Beer-sheba in the Judean Negev.[a] After they had traveled throughout the entire land, they returned to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and 20 days. Joab reported the total number of men to the king. In Israel there were 800,000 men trained for war.[b] In Judah there were 500,000.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 24:7 I.e. southern regions of the Sinai peninsula; cf. Josh 10:40
  2. 2 Samuel 24:9 Lit. men in wielding a sword