1 Chronicles 21:5
Good News Translation
He reported to King David the total number of men capable of military service: 1,100,000 in Israel and 470,000 in Judah.

New Revised Standard Version
Joab gave the total count of the people to David. In all Israel there were one million one hundred thousand men who drew the sword, and in Judah four hundred seventy thousand who drew the sword.

Contemporary English Version
and told David that the total number of men who could serve in the army was 1,100,000 in Israel and 470,000 in Judah.

New American Bible
Joab reported the census figures to David: of men capable of wielding a sword, there were in all Israel one million one hundred thousand, and in Judah four hundred and seventy thousand.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he gave David the number of them, whom he had surveyed: and all the number of Israel was found to be eleven hundred thousand men that drew the sword: and of Juda four hundred and seventy thousand fighting men.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And he gave David the number of them, whom he had surveyed: and all the number of Israel was found to be eleven hundred thousand men that drew the sword: and of Juda four hundred and seventy thousand fighting men.

a thousand The Syriac has

800,000 as in the parallel passage of Samuel

1 Chronicles 27:23 But David would not number them from twenty years old and under: because the lord had said that he would multiply Israel like the stars of heaven.

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.

Context
David's Military Census
4But the king's word rather prevailed: and Joab departed, and went through all Israel: and returned to Jerusalem. 5And he gave David the number of them, whom he had surveyed: and all the number of Israel was found to be eleven hundred thousand men that drew the sword: and of Juda four hundred and seventy thousand fighting men.6But Levi and Benjamin he did not number: for Joab unwillingly executed the king's orders.…
Cross References
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.

1 Chronicles 21:4
But the king's word rather prevailed: and Joab departed, and went through all Israel: and returned to Jerusalem.

1 Chronicles 21:4
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