24:9 Joab reported the number of warriors 3 to the king. In Israel there were 800,000 sword-wielding warriors, and in Judah there were 500,000 soldiers.
1 tc The LXX has “one thousand chariots and seven thousand charioteers,” a reading adopted in the text of the NIV. See the parallel text in 1 Chr 18:4.
2 tn Heb “and David cut the hamstrings of all the chariot horses, and he left from them a hundred chariot horses.”
3 tn Heb “and Joab gave the number of the numbering of the people.”