2 Samuel 24:8

8 After they had gone through the entire land, they came back to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.

2 Samuel 24:8 in Other Translations

8 So when they had gone through all the land, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.

8 So when they had gone through all the land, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.

8 Having gone through the entire land for nine months and twenty days, they returned to Jerusalem.

8 They canvassed the whole country and after nine months and twenty days arrived back in Jerusalem.

8 When they had gone through the whole land, they returned to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and 20 days.

2 Samuel 24:8 Meaning and Commentary

2 Samuel 24:8

So when they had gone through all the land
Beginning at the east, and from thence to the north, and then going about to the west, came to the south, which finished their circuit:

they came to Jerusalem, at the end of nine months and twenty days:
they were ten months wanting ten days in numbering the people; in which they seem to have been very expeditious.

2 Samuel 24:8 In-Context

6 They went to Gilead and the region of Tahtim Hodshi, and on to Dan Jaan and around toward Sidon.

7 Then they went toward the fortress of Tyre and all the towns of the Hivites and Canaanites. Finally, they went on to Beersheba in the Negev of Judah.

8 After they had gone through the entire land, they came back to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.

9 Joab reported the number of the fighting men to the king: In Israel there were eight hundred thousand able-bodied men who could handle a sword, and in Judah five hundred thousand.

10 David was conscience-stricken after he had counted the fighting men, and he said to the LORD, “I have sinned greatly in what I have done. Now, LORD, I beg you, take away the guilt of your servant. I have done a very foolish thing.”