◄ 1 Samuel 11:8 ►
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Good News Translation
Saul gathered them at Bezek: there were 300,000 from Israel and 30,000 from Judah.

New Revised Standard Version
When he mustered them at Bezek, those from Israel were three hundred thousand, and those from Judah seventy thousand.

Contemporary English Version
at Bezek. Saul had them organized and counted. There were 300,000 from Israel and 30,000 from Judah.

New American Bible
When Saul reviewed them in Bezek, there were three hundred thousand Israelites and seventy thousand Judahites.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he numbered them in Bezec: and there were of the children of Israel three hundred thousand: and of the men of Juda thirty thousand.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And he numbered them in Bezec: and there were of the children of Israel three hundred thousand: and of the men of Juda thirty thousand.

Bezek

Judges 1:4,5 And Juda went up, and the Lord delivered the Chanaanite, and the Pherezite into their hands: and they slew of them in Bezec ten thousand men. . . .

the children

1 Samuel 13:15 And Samuel arose and went up from Galgal to Gabaa of Benjamin. And the rest of the people went up after Saul, to meet the people who fought against them, going from Galgal to Gabaa, in the hill of Benjamin. And Saul numbered the people, that were found with him, about six hundred men.

1 Samuel 15:4 So Saul commanded the people, and numbered them as lambs: two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand of the men of Juda.

2 Samuel 24:9 And Joab gave up the sum of the number of the people to the king, and there were found of Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men that drew the sword: and of Juda five hundred thousand fighting men.

2 Chronicles 17:12-19 And Josaphat grew, and became exceeding great: and he built in Juda houses like towers, and walled cities. . . .

Context
Saul Defeats the Ammonites
…7And taking both the oxen, he cut them in pieces, and sent them into all the coasts of Israel, by messengers, saying: Whosoever shall not come forth, and follow Saul and Samuel, so shall it be done to his oxen. And the fear of the Lord fell upon the people, and they went out as one man. 8And he numbered them in Bezec: and there were of the children of Israel three hundred thousand: and of the men of Juda thirty thousand.9And they said to the messengers that came: Thus shall you say to the men of Jabes Galaad: To morrow, when the sun shall be hot, you shall have relief. The messengers therefore came, and told the men of Jabes, and they were glad.…
Cross References
Judges 1:5
And they found Adonibezec in Bezec, and fought against him, and they defeated the Chanaanite, and the Pherezite.

Judges 20:2
And all the chiefs of the people, and all the tribes of Israel, met together in the assembly of the people of God, four hundred thousand footmen fit for war.

1 Samuel 11:9
And they said to the messengers that came: Thus shall you say to the men of Jabes Galaad: To morrow, when the sun shall be hot, you shall have relief. The messengers therefore came, and told the men of Jabes, and they were glad.

1 Samuel 11:7
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