Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
Joab gave the sum of the number of the children of Israel—It amounted to one million one hundred thousand men in Israel, capable of bearing arms, inclusive of the three hundred thousand military (I Chronicles 27:1-9), which, being already enlisted in the royal service, were not reckoned (II Samuel 24:9), and to four hundred seventy thousand men in Judah, omitting thirty thousand which formed an army of observation stationed on the Philistine frontier (II Samuel 6:1). So large a population at this early period, considering the limited extent of the country and comparing it with the earlier census (Num. 26:1-65), is a striking proof of the fulfilment of the promise (Genesis 15:5).
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing 1 Chronicles 21:5:
2 Samuel 24:9
1 Chronicles 21:1
1 Chronicles 21:6
2 Chronicles 13:3
Isaiah 39:2
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