Armies

Nave's Topical Bible

Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.

• Numbers 1:2 OT

  “Take a census of all the congregation of the children of Israel, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, every male, one by one,

• Numbers 1:3 OT

  from twenty years old and upward, all who are able to go out to war in Israel. You and Aaron shall count them by their divisions.

• Numbers 26:2 OT

  “Take a census of all the congregation of the children of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, by their fathers’ houses, all who are able to go out to war in Israel.”

• 2 Chronicles 25:5 OT

  Moreover Amaziah gathered Judah together, and ordered them according to their fathers’ houses, under captains of thousands and captains of hundreds, even all Judah and Benjamin. He counted them from twenty years old and upward, and found…

• Numbers 1:47-50 OT

  But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not counted among them. For Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, “Only the tribe of Levi you shall not count, neither shall you take a census of them among the children of Israel; but appoint…

• Numbers 2:33 OT

  But the Levites were not counted among the children of Israel, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

• Deuteronomy 20:5-9 OT

  The officers shall speak to the people, saying, “What man is there who has built a new house, and has not dedicated it? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man dedicate it. What man is there who has…

• Judges 7:3 OT

  Now therefore proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, ‘Whoever is fearful and trembling, let him return and depart from Mount Gilead.’ ” So twenty-two thousand of the people returned, and ten thousand remained.

• 1 Samuel 11:8 OT

  He counted them in Bezek; and the children of Israel were three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty thousand.

• 2 Samuel 18:1 OT

  David counted the people who were with him, and set captains of thousands and captains of hundreds over them.

• 2 Samuel 18:2 OT

  David sent the people out, a third part under the hand of Joab, and a third part under the hand of Abishai the son of Zeruiah, Joab’s brother, and a third part under the hand of Ittai the Gittite. The king said to the people, “I will also…

• 2 Samuel 24:1-9 OT

  Again Yahweh’s anger burned against Israel, and he moved David against them, saying, “Go, count Israel and Judah.” The king said to Joab the captain of the army, who was with him, “Now go back and forth through all the tribes of Israel,…

• 1 Kings 20:15 OT

  Then he mustered the young men of the princes of the provinces, and they were two hundred and thirty-two. After them, he mustered all the people, even all the children of Israel, being seven thousand.

• Numbers 31:4 OT

  You shall send one thousand out of every tribe, throughout all the tribes of Israel, to the war.”

• Judges 20:10 OT

  and we will take ten men of one hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and one hundred of one thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand to get food for the people, that they may do, when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin, according…

• 1 Samuel 14:52 OT

  There was severe war against the Philistines all the days of Saul; and when Saul saw any mighty man, or any valiant man, he took him into his service.

• 1 Samuel 14:50 OT

  The name of Saul’s wife was Ahinoam the daughter of Ahimaaz. The name of the captain of his army was Abner the son of Ner, Saul’s uncle.

• 2 Samuel 2:8 OT

  Now Abner the son of Ner, captain of Saul’s army, had taken Ishbosheth the son of Saul, and brought him over to Mahanaim;

• 2 Samuel 8:16 OT

  Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the army, Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder,

• 2 Samuel 17:25 OT

  Absalom set Amasa over the army instead of Joab. Now Amasa was the son of a man whose name was Ithra the Israelite, who went in to Abigail the daughter of Nahash, sister to Zeruiah, Joab’s mother.

• 2 Samuel 19:13 OT

  Say to Amasa, ‘Aren’t you my bone and my flesh? God do so to me, and more also, if you aren’t captain of the army before me continually instead of Joab.’ ”

• 2 Samuel 20:23 OT

  Now Joab was over all the army of Israel, Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and over the Pelethites,

• Numbers 2:3 OT

  Those who encamp on the east side toward the sunrise shall be of the standard of the camp of Judah, according to their divisions. The prince of the children of Judah shall be Nahshon the son of Amminadab.

• Numbers 2:31 OT

  “All who were counted of the camp of Dan were one hundred fifty-seven thousand six hundred. They shall set out last by their standards.”