2 Samuel 24:9

Overview - 2 Samuel 24
David, tempted by Satan, forces Joab to number the people.
The captains, in nine months and twenty days, bring the muster of thirteen hundred thousand fighting men.
10 David repents, and having three plagues propounded by God, chooses the three days' pestilence.
15 After the death of three score and ten thousand, David by prayer prevents the destruction of Jerusalem.
18 David, by God's direction, purchases Araunah's threshing floor; where having sacrificed, the plague stays.
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2 Samuel 24:9  (King James Version)
And Joab gave up the sum of the number of the people unto the king: and there were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men that drew the sword; and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand men.
 


eight hundred thousand
1 Chronicles 21:5 1 Chronicles 21:6 ; 1 Chronicles 27:23 1 Chronicles 27:24