Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 1 Chronicles 21:5
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5. Joab gave the sum of the number of the children of Israel —It amounted to one million one hundred thousand men in Israel, capable of bearing arms, inclusive of the three hundred thousand military ( :- ), which, being already enlisted in the royal service, were not reckoned ( 2 Samuel 24:9 ), and to four hundred seventy thousand men in Judah, omitting thirty thousand which formed an army of observation stationed on the Philistine frontier ( 2 Samuel 6:1 ). So large a population at this early period, considering the limited extent of the country and comparing it with the earlier census ( 2 Samuel 6:1- : ), is a striking proof of the fulfilment of the promise ( Genesis 15:5 ). return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-6" class="com-number"
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