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and came to the fortress of Tyre and all the cities of the Hivites and the Canaanites. Then they went out to the Negev of Judah at Beersheba. They went about through all the land, and they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.

Then Joab gave the number of the counting of the people to the king. Israel was eight hundred thousand valiant warriors[a] wielding the sword, and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 24:9 Literally “men of ability”