And Joab gave the sum of the number of the people unto David. And all they of Israel were a thousand thousand and an hundred thousand men that drew sword: and Judah was four hundred threescore and ten thousand men that drew sword.
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Barnes' Notes
In 2Sa 24:9 the numbers are different. The explanation there given is not so generally accepted as the supposition that the numbers have, in one passage or the other (or possibly in both), suffered…
Adam Clarke
All they of Israel were a thousand thousand - Judah was four hundred threescore and ten thousand - In the parallel place, Sa2 24:9 (note), the men of Israel are reckoned eight hundred thousand, and…
Numbering the people, one would think, was no bad thing. Why should not the shepherd know the number of his flock? But God sees not as man sees. It is plain it was wrong in David to do it, and a great…
Cambridge Bible
they of Israel Chron. gives Israel as 1,100,000 and Judah as 470,000; 2 Sam. gives Israel as 800,000 and Judah as 500,000.
that drew sword All males over twenty years of age would be so described; cp.…