Discovery Box1 Chronicles 21:2 
Context21:2 David told Joab and the leaders of the army, 1 “Go, count the number of warriors 2 from Beer Sheba to Dan. Then bring back a report to me so I may know how many we have.” 3
1 Chronicles 21:5
Context21:5 Joab reported to David the number of warriors. 4 In all Israel there were 1,100,000 5 sword-wielding soldiers; Judah alone had 470,000 sword-wielding soldiers. 6
1 Chronicles 23:31
Context23:31 and whenever burnt sacrifices were offered to the Lord on the Sabbath and at new moon festivals and assemblies. A designated number were to serve before the Lord regularly in accordance with regulations. 7
1 Chronicles 27:24
Context27:24 Joab son of Zeruiah started to count the men but did not finish. God was angry with Israel 8 because of this, so the number was not recorded in the scroll 9 called The Annals of King David.
1 tn Or “people.”
2 tn Heb “Go, count Israel.” See the note on “had” in v. 1.
3 tn Heb “their number.”
4 tn Heb “and Joab gave to David the number of the numbering of the army [or “people”].”
5 tn Heb “a thousand thousands and one hundred thousand.”
6 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.”
7 tn Heb “by number according to the manner upon them, regularly before the
8 tn Heb “anger was on Israel.”
9 tc The Hebrew text has “in the number,” but מִסְפַּר (mispar) is probably dittographic – note that the same word appears immediately before this. The form should be emended to בְּסֵפֶר (bÿsefar, “in the scroll”).
