Bible Verses About Armies: Enumeration of Israel's military forces

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Verses on Enumeration of Israel's military forces

  1. Numbers 1:2

    "Take a census of the entire assembly of the people of Isra'el, by clans and families. Record the names of all the men

  2. Numbers 1:3

    twenty years old and over who are subject to military service in Isra'el. You and Aharon are to enumerate them company by company.

  3. 2 Samuel 18:1

    David took a census of the people who were with him and appointed over them commanders of thousands and of hundreds.

  4. 2 Samuel 18:2

    Then David dispatched the people, a third of them under the command of Yo'av, a third under Avishai the son of Tz'ruyah, Yo'av's brother, and a third under Ittai the Gitti; and the king said to the people, "I will also go out with you, myself."

  5. 2 Samuel 24:1

    The anger of ADONAI blazed up against Isra'el, so he moved David to act against them by saying, "Go, take a census of Isra'el and Y'hudah."

  6. 2 Samuel 24:2

    The king said to Yo'av the commander of the army, who was with him, "Go systematically through all the tribes of Isra'el, from Dan to Be'er-Sheva; and take a census of the population; so that I can know how many people there are."

  7. 2 Samuel 24:3

    Yo'av said to the king, "May ADONAI your God add to the people a hundredfold, no matter how many there are; and may the eyes of my lord the king see it. But why does my lord the king take pleasure in doing this?"

  8. 2 Samuel 24:4

    However, the king's word prevailed against Yo'av and the army officers. So Yo'av and the army officers went out from the king's presence to take a census of the people of Isra'el.

  9. 2 Samuel 24:5

    They crossed the Yarden and pitched camp in 'Aro'er, to the south of the city in the Vadi of Gad; went on to Ya'zer;

  10. 2 Samuel 24:6

    came to Gil'ad and continued to the land of Tachtim-Hodshi. Then they arrived at Dan-Ya'an, went around to Tzidon

  11. 2 Samuel 24:7

    and came to the stronghold of Tzor. They went on to the cities of the Hivi and of the Kena'ani, and finished in the south of Y'hudah, at Be'er-Sheva.

  12. 2 Samuel 24:8

    When they were done going through all the land, they came back to Yerushalayim; it had taken nine months and twenty days.

  13. 2 Samuel 24:9

    Yo'av reported the results of the census to the king: there were in Isra'el 800,000 valiant men who could handle a sword, while the men of Y'hudah numbered 500,000.