2 Samuel 24:8
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New International Version (©2011)
After they had gone through the entire land, they came back to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Having gone through the entire land for nine months and twenty days, they returned to Jerusalem.

English Standard Version (©2001)
So when they had gone through all the land, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
So when they had gone about through the whole land, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
So when they had gone through all the land, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
When they had gone through the whole land, they returned to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and 20 days.

International Standard Version (©2012)
After they had traveled throughout the entire land, they returned to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and 20 days.

NET Bible (©2006)
They went through all the land and after nine months and twenty days came back to Jerusalem.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
When they had covered the whole country, they came to Jerusalem after 9 months and 20 days.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
So when they had gone through all the land, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.

American King James Version
So when they had gone through all the land, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.

American Standard Version
So when they had gone to and from through all the land, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And having gone through the whole land, after nine months and twenty days, they came to Jerusalem.

Darby Bible Translation
And they went through all the land, and came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.

English Revised Version
So when they had gone to and fro through all the land, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.

Webster's Bible Translation
So when they had gone through all the land, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.

World English Bible
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.

Young's Literal Translation
And they go to and fro through all the land, and come in at the end of nine months and twenty days to Jerusalem,

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

24:1-9 For the people's sin David was left to act wrong, and in his chastisement they received punishment. This example throws light upon God's government of the world, and furnishes a useful lesson. The pride of David's heart, was his sin in numbering of the people. He thought thereby to appear the more formidable, trusting in an arm of flesh more than he should have done, and though he had written so much of trusting in God only. God judges not of sin as we do. What appears to us harmless, or, at least, but a small offence, may be a great sin in the eye of God, who discerns the thoughts and intents of the heart. Even ungodly men can discern evil tempers and wrong conduct in believers, of which they themselves often remain unconscious. But God seldom allows those whom he loves the pleasures they sinfully covet.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 8. - Nine months and twenty days. This long period seems excessive, if nothing more was intended than merely counting the heads of the people, especially as the census was left unfinished. But there might very probably be difficulties with the aliens dwelling in Israel; and it is still more probable that there was a complete examination of all the military resources of the land. The result showed a very different state of things from that described in 1 Samuel 13:19-22, and we can well understand the existence of much elation and war lust among the Israelites on the first flush of pride in their new empire.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

So when they had gone through all the land,.... Beginning at the east, and from thence to the north, and then going about to the west, came to the south, which finished their circuit:

they came to Jerusalem, at the end of nine months and twenty days: they were ten months wanting ten days in numbering the people; in which they seem to have been very expeditious.

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David's Census
…7And came to the strong hold of Tyre, and to all the cities of the Hivites, and of the Canaanites: and they went out to the south of Judah, even to Beersheba. 8So when they had gone through all the land, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days. 9And Joab gave up the sum of the number of the people to the king: and there were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men that drew the sword; and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand men.

2 Samuel 24:7 Then they went toward the fortress of Tyre and all the towns of the Hivites and Canaanites. Finally, they went on to Beersheba in the Negev of Judah.
2 Samuel 24:9 Joab reported the number of the fighting men to the king: In Israel there were eight hundred thousand able-bodied men who could handle a sword, and in Judah five hundred thousand.