So the king said to Joab, the commander of the army,[a] who was with him, “Go through all the tribes of Israel, (A)from Dan to Beersheba, and number the people, that I may know the number of the people.”

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  1. 2 Samuel 24:2 Septuagint to Joab and the commanders of the army

So the king said to Joab(A) and the army commanders[a] with him, “Go throughout the tribes of Israel from Dan to Beersheba(B) and enroll(C) the fighting men, so that I may know how many there are.”

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  1. 2 Samuel 24:2 Septuagint (see also verse 4 and 1 Chron. 21:2); Hebrew Joab the army commander

15 (A)So the Lord sent a pestilence on Israel from the morning until the appointed time. And there died of the people from (B)Dan to Beersheba 70,000 men.

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15 So the Lord sent a plague on Israel from that morning until the end of the time designated, and seventy thousand of the people from Dan to Beersheba died.(A)

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