And Joab gave the number and sum of the people unto David: and all Israel were [a]eleven hundred thousand men that drew sword: and Judah was [b]four hundred and seventy thousand men that drew sword.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Chronicles 21:5 Joab partly for grief, and partly through negligence, gathered not the whole sum as it is here declared.
  2. 1 Chronicles 21:5 In Samuel is mention of thirty thousand more, which was either by joining to them some of the Benjamites which were mixed with Judah, or as the Hebrews write, here the chief and princes are left out.

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