1 Chronicles 21:5-6
1,100,000 ....... 470,000 <0505> [a thousand.]
The Syriac has 800,000 as in the parallel passage of Samuel.
Levi <03878> [Levi.]
Joab <03097> [Joab.]
1 Chronicles 27:23-24
David <05375 01732> [David took not.]
It seems probable, from this passage, that Joab began, by David's order, to number the children, as well as adults, but was prevented from finishing the account, probably because the plague had begun. The numbering of the effective men might have been deemed a political expedient; but pride and ostentation alone could dictate the numbering of minors and infants, especially as God had pronounced the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, innumerable.
twenty <06242> [from twenty.]
promised ... make .... numerous <07235> [he would increase.]
started ... count <02490 04487> [began to number.]
so ... number <05927 04557> [was the number put. Heb. ascended the number.]
