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Tour · c. 975 BC
Joab's census of Israel
Aroer 2 Sam 24:1–5
David tells Joab, "Go now through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, and number ye the people"; the captains cross the Jordan and pitch at Aroer.
Open on the map →Jazer 2 Sam 24:5 · ≈ 53 km in a straight line
From Aroer the way leads toward Jazer, in the land of Gad.
Open on the map →Gilead 2 Sam 24:6 · ≈ 30 km in a straight line
They come to Gilead and to the land of Tahtim-hodshi.
Open on the map →Dan 2 Sam 24:6 · ≈ 120 km in a straight line
They come to Dan-jaan, usually taken as Dan, the northern end of the land.
Open on the map →Sidon 2 Sam 24:6 · ≈ 43 km in a straight line
They go about to Sidon.
Open on the map →Tyre 2 Sam 24:7 · ≈ 36 km in a straight line
They come to the stronghold of Tyre and to all the cities of the Hivites and the Canaanites.
Open on the map →Beersheba 2 Sam 24:7 · ≈ 230 km in a straight line
They go out to the south of Judah, to Beersheba.
Open on the map →Jerusalem 2 Sam 24:8–25 · ≈ 70 km in a straight line
After nine months and twenty days they come to Jerusalem: 800,000 men in Israel, 500,000 in Judah. David's heart smites him; he chooses the plague rather than the hand of man, 70,000 die from Dan to Beersheba, and the Lord stays the angel's hand by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite, which David buys and builds an altar on.
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