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Then they went to the fortress of Tyre and all the cities of the Hivites and the Canaanites. Then they went on to the Negev of Judah, to Beer Sheba. They went through all the land and after nine months and twenty days came back to Jerusalem.

Joab reported the number of warriors[a] to the king. In Israel there were 800,000 sword-wielding warriors, and in Judah there were 500,000 soldiers.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 24:9 tn Heb “and Joab gave the number of the numbering of the people.”