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 all the congregation of the children of Israel, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, every male, one by one;

  2. Numbers 1:3

    from twenty years old and upward, all who are able to go out to war in Israel. You and Aaron shall number them by their divisions.

  3. 2 Samuel 18:1

    David numbered the people who were with him, and set captains of thousands and captains of hundreds over them.

  4. 2 Samuel 18:2

    David sent the people out, a third part under the hand of Joab, and a third part under the hand of Abishai the son of Zeruiah, Joab’s brother, and a third part under the hand of Ittai the Gittite. The king said to the people, “I will also surely go out with you myself.”

  5. 2 Samuel 24:1

    Again the LORD’s anger was kindled against Israel, and he moved David against them, saying, “Go, number Israel and Judah.”

  6. 2 Samuel 24:2

    The king said to Joab the captain of the army, who was with him, “Now go back and forth through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan even to Beersheba, and number the people, that I may know the sum of the people.”

  7. 2 Samuel 24:3

    Joab said to the king, “Now may the LORD your God add to the people, however many they may be, one hundred times; and may the eyes of my lord the king see it. But why does my lord the king delight in this thing?”

  8. 2 Samuel 24:4

    Notwithstanding, the king’s word prevailed against Joab, and against the captains of the army. Joab and the captains of the army went out from the presence of the king, to number the people of Israel.

  9. 2 Samuel 24:5

    They passed over the Jordan, and encamped in Aroer, on the right side of the city that is in the middle of the valley of Gad, and to Jazer:

  10. 2 Samuel 24:6

    then they came to Gilead, and to the land of Tahtim Hodshi; and they came to Dan Jaan, and around to Sidon,

  11. 2 Samuel 24:7

    and came to the stronghold of Tyre, and to all the cities of the Hivites, and of the Canaanites; and they went out to the south of Judah, at Beersheba.

  12. 2 Samuel 24:8

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

  13. 2 Samuel 24:9

    Joab gave up the sum of the numbering of the people to the king: and there were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men who drew the sword; and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand men.