1 Chronicles 21:5 BSB

1 Chronicles 21:5

And Joab reported to David the total number of the troops. In all Israel there were 1,100,000 men who drew the sword, including 470,000 in Judah.

BSB

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ASV

And Joab gave up the sum of the numbering of the people unto David. And all they of Israel were a thousand thousand and a hundred thousand men that drew sword: and Judah was four hundred threescore and ten thousand men that drew sword.

KJV

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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Commentary

2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

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 corruption.

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The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

So large a population at this early period, considering the limited extent of the country and comparing it with the earlier census (Nu 26:1-65), is a striking proof of the fulfilment of the promise (Ge 15:5).

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Original language & word study

26 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיִּתֵּ֥ן	vai.yi.Ten	and he gave	H5414 →
יוֹאָ֛ב	yo.'Av	Joab	H3097 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
מִסְפַּ֥ר	mis.Par	[the] number of	H4557 →
מִפְקַד־	mif.kad-	[the] muster of	H4662 →
הָעָ֖ם	ha.'Am	the people	H5971 →
אֶל־	'el-	to	H413 →
דָּוִ֑יד	da.Vid	David	H1732 →
וַיְהִ֣י	vay.Hi	and it was	H1961 →
כָֽל־	khol-	all	H3605 →
יִשְׂרָאֵ֡ל	Yis.ra.'El	Israel	H3478 →
אֶ֣לֶף	'E.lef	one thousand	H505 →
אֲלָפִים֩	'a.la.Fim	thousands	H505 →
וּמֵאָ֨ה	u.me.'Ah	and one hundred	H3967 →
אֶ֤לֶף	'E.lef	thousand	H505 →
אִישׁ֙	'ish	man	H376 →
שֹׁ֣לֵֽף	Sho.lef	[who] drew out	H8025 →
חֶ֔רֶב	Che.rev	a sword	H2719 →
וִֽיהוּדָ֕ה	vi.hu.Dah	and Judah	H3063 →
אַרְבַּע֩	'ar.Ba'	four	H702 →
מֵא֨וֹת	me.'ot	hundred<s>	H3967 →
וְשִׁבְעִ֥ים	ve.shiv.'Im	and seventy	H7657 →
אֶ֛לֶף	'E.lef	thousand	H505 →
אִ֖ישׁ	'ish	man	H376 →
שֹׁ֥לֵֽף	Sho.lef	[who] drew out	H8025 →
חָֽרֶב׃	Cha.rev	a sword	H2719 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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The walk7

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
1 Chronicles 27:23
David did not count the men aged twenty or under, because the LORD had said that He would make Israel as numerous as the stars of the sky.
leads to
- Genesis 15:5
  And the LORD took him outside and said, “Now look to the heavens and count the stars, if you are able.” Then He told him, “So shall your offspring be.”
- 1 Chronicles 21:2–5
  So David said to Joab and the commanders of the troops, “Go and count the Israelites from Beersheba to Dan and bring me a report, so that I may know their number.”
- Numbers 1:18
  and on the first day of the second month they assembled the whole congregation and recorded their ancestry by clans and families, counting one by one the names of those twenty years of age…
- Hebrews 11:12
  And so from one man, and he as good as dead, came descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as countless as the sand on the seashore.
Through
2 Samuel 24:9
And Joab reported to the king the total number of the troops. In Israel there were 800,000 men of valor who drew the sword, and in Judah there were 500,000.
leads to
- 1 Chronicles 27:23–24
  David did not count the men aged twenty or under, because the LORD had said that He would make Israel as numerous as the stars of the sky.
- 1 Chronicles 21:5–6
  And Joab reported to David the total number of the troops. In all Israel there were 1,100,000 men who drew the sword, including 470,000 in Judah.
- Numbers 1:44–46
  These were the men numbered by Moses and Aaron, with the assistance of the twelve leaders of Israel, each one representing his family.

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