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But the king’s word was stronger than Joab. So Joab left and went through all of Israel, and returned to Jerusalem. He gave the number of all the people to David. There were 1,100,000 men in all Israel who used the sword. And there were 470,000 men in Judah who used the sword. But Joab did not number Levi and Benjamin among them because he did not like what the king had told him to do.

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