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But David took not the number of them from twenty years old and under: because the LORD had said he would increase Israel like to the stars of the heavens.

New Defender's Study Bible Notes

27:23 the stars of the heavens. Even though Joab only counted men over twenty years of age, and did not include the tribes of Levi or Benjamin, the number recorded was over a million fighting men, far greater in number than the stars that could be seen with the naked eye.


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