1 Chronicles 21:2

21:2 David told Joab and the leaders of the army, ¹  “Go, count the number of warriors ²  from Beer Sheba to Dan. Then bring back a report to me so I may know how many we have.” ³ 

1 Chronicles 21:5-6

21:5 Joab reported to David the number of warriors. ⁴  In all Israel there were 1,100,000 ⁵  sword-wielding soldiers; Judah alone had 470,000 sword-wielding soldiers. ⁶  21:6 Now Joab ⁷  did not number Levi and Benjamin, for the king’s edict disgusted him.

[21:2]  ¹ tn Or “people.”

[21:2]  ² tn Heb “Go, count Israel.” See the note on “had” in v. 1.

[21:2]  ³ tn Heb “their number.”

[21:5]  ⁴ tn Heb “and Joab gave to David the number of the numbering of the army [or “people”].”

[21:5]  ⁵ tn Heb “a thousand thousands and one hundred thousand.”

[21:5]  ⁶ tc The parallel text in 2 Sam 24:9 has variant figures: “In Israel there were eight hundred thousand sword-wielding warriors, and in Judah there were five hundred thousands soldiers.”

[21:6]  ⁷ tn Heb “he”; the proper name (“Joab”) has been substituted for the pronoun here for stylistic reasons; the proper name occurs at the end of the verse in the Hebrew text, where it has been replaced by the pronoun (“him”) in the translation.