1 Chronicles 21:5-6

21:5 Joab reported to David the number of warriors. 1  In all Israel there were 1,100,000 2  sword-wielding soldiers; Judah alone had 470,000 sword-wielding soldiers. 3  21:6 Now Joab 4  did not number Levi and Benjamin, for the king’s edict disgusted him.

1 tn Heb “and Joab gave to David the number of the numbering of the army [or “people”].”

2 tn Heb “a thousand thousands and one hundred thousand.”

3 tc The parallel text in 2 Sam 24:9 has variant figures: “In Israel there were eight hundred thousand sword-wielding warriors, and in Judah there were five hundred thousands soldiers.”

4 tn Heb “he”; the proper name (“Joab”) has been substituted for the pronoun here for stylistic reasons; the proper name occurs at the end of the verse in the Hebrew text, where it has been replaced by the pronoun (“him”) in the translation.