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Tyndale Open Study Notes on 2 Samuel 24:9

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Tyndale Open Study Notes
Tyndale House Publishers · Modern study notes
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24:9 The phrase capable warriors shows that the census focused largely on those fit for military service. The total for Judah here might be rounded up from the total in 1 Chr 21:5; the different number for Israel in 1 Chr 21:5 (1,100,000) might come from combining a regular standing army of 300,000 (elsewhere unrecorded) with the 800,000 discovered through the census.
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