1 Samuel 11:8

11:8 When Saul counted them at Bezek, the Israelites were 300,000 ¹  strong and the men of Judah numbered 30,000. ² 

1 Samuel 17:2

17:2 Saul and the Israelite army ³  assembled and camped in the valley of Elah, where they arranged their battle lines to fight against ⁴  the Philistines.

¹ tc The LXX and two Old Latin mss read 600,000 here, rather than the MT’s 300,000.

² tc The LXX, two Old Latin mss, and a Qumran ms read 70,000 here, rather than the MT’s 30,000.

³ tn Heb “the men of Israel” (so KJV, NASB); NAB, NIV, NRSV “the Israelites.”

⁴ tn Heb “to meet.”