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2 Samuel 24:8

So after going through all the land in every direction, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Armies;   Census;   Israel;   Joab;   Presumption;   Rulers;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Joab;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Census;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Joab;   Samuel, Books of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Genealogy;   Samuel, Books of;   Sin;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - David;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Da'vid;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Joab;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
When they had gone through the whole land, they returned to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.
Hebrew Names Version
So when they had gone back and forth through all the land, they came to Yerushalayim at the end of nine months and twenty days.
King James Version
So when they had gone through all the land, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.
English Standard Version
So when they had gone through all the land, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.
New Century Version
After nine months and twenty days, they had gone through all the land. Then they came back to Jerusalem.
New English Translation
They went through all the land and after nine months and twenty days came back to Jerusalem.
Amplified Bible
So when they had gone about through all the land [taking the census], they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.
New American Standard Bible
So when they had roamed about through the whole land, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.
Geneva Bible (1587)
So when they had gone about all the lande, they returned to Ierusalem at the ende of nine moneths and twentie dayes.
Legacy Standard Bible
So they had gone about through the whole land, and they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.
Contemporary English Version
After they had gone through the whole land, they went back to Jerusalem. It had taken them nine months and twenty days.
Complete Jewish Bible
When they were done going through all the land, they came back to Yerushalayim; it had taken nine months and twenty days.
Darby Translation
And they went through all the land, and came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.
Easy-to-Read Version
It took them nine months and 20 days for them to go through the country. After nine months and 20 days they came back to Jerusalem.
George Lamsa Translation
And when they had gone through all the land, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.
Good News Translation
So after nine months and twenty days they returned to Jerusalem, having traveled through the whole country.
Lexham English Bible
They went about through all the land, and they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.
Literal Translation
And they went to and fro through all the land, and came in to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and wete rounde aboute that countre, and after nyne monethes and twenty daies they came to Ierusalem.
American Standard Version
So when they had gone to and fro through all the land, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And so when they had ben abrode throughout all the land, they returned to Hierusalem, after the end of nine monethes and twentie dayes.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
So when they had gone to and fro through all the land, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.
King James Version (1611)
So when they had gone through all the land, they came to Ierusalem at the ende of nine moneths, and twentie dayes.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And they compassed the whole land; and they arrived at Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.
English Revised Version
So when they had gone to and fro through all the land, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.
Berean Standard Bible
At the end of nine months and twenty days, having gone through the whole land, they returned to Jerusalem.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And whanne al the lond was cumpassid, thei camen aftir nyne monethis and twenti daies in to Jerusalem.
Young's Literal Translation
And they go to and fro through all the land, and come in at the end of nine months and twenty days to Jerusalem,
Update Bible Version
So when they had gone to and from through all the land, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.
Webster's Bible Translation
So when they had gone through all the land, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.
World English Bible
So when they had gone back and forth through all the land, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.
New King James Version
So when they had gone through all the land, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.
New Living Translation
Having gone through the entire land for nine months and twenty days, they returned to Jerusalem.
New Life Bible
When they had gone through the whole land, they came to Jerusalem. They had traveled nine months and twenty days.
New Revised Standard
So when they had gone through all the land, they came back to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So, when they had gone to and fro throughout all the land, they came, at the end of nine months and twenty days, unto Jerusalem.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And having gone through the whole land, after nine months and twenty days, they came to Jerusalem.
Revised Standard Version
So when they had gone through all the land, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
So when they had gone about through the whole land, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.

Contextual Overview

1 Again the wrath of the Lord was burning against Israel, and moving David against them, he said, Go, take the number of Israel and Judah. 2 And the king said to Joab and the captains of the army, who were with him, Go now through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan as far as Beer-sheba, and have all the people numbered, so that I may be certain of the number of the people. 3 And Joab said to the king, Whatever the number of the people, may the Lord make it a hundred times as much, and may the eyes of my lord the king see it: but why does my lord the king take pleasure in doing this thing? 4 But the king's order was stronger than Joab and the captains of the army. And Joab and the captains of the army went out from the king, to take the number of the children of Israel. 5 And they went over Jordan, and starting from Aroer, from the town which is in the middle of the valley, they went in the direction of the Gadites, and on to Jazer; 6 Then they came to Gilead, and to the land of the Hittites under Hermon; and they came to Dan, and from Dan they came round to Zidon, 7 And to the walled town of Tyre, and to all the towns of the Hivites and the Canaanites: and they went out to the South of Judah at Beer-sheba. 8 So after going through all the land in every direction, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days. 9 And Joab gave the king the number of all the people: there were in Israel eight hundred thousand fighting men able to take up arms; and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand.

Bible Verse Review
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Cross-References

Genesis 24:4
But that you will go into my country and to my relations and get a wife there for my son Isaac.
Genesis 24:6
And Abraham said, Take care that you do not let my son go back to that land.
Genesis 24:17
And the servant came running to her and said, Give me a little water from your vessel.
Genesis 24:20
And after putting the water from her vessel into the animals' drinking-place, she went quickly back to the spring and got water for all the camels.
Numbers 30:5
But if her father, hearing of it, makes her take back her word, then the oaths or the undertakings she has given will have no force; and she will have forgiveness from the Lord, because her oath was broken by her father.
Numbers 30:8
But if her husband, hearing of it, makes her take it back, then the oath she made and the undertaking she gave without thought will have no force or effect, and she will have the Lord's forgiveness.
Joshua 9:20
This is what we will do to them: we will not put them to death, for fear that wrath may come on us because of our oath to them.
John 8:32
And you will have knowledge of what is true, and that will make you free.
Acts 7:2
And he said, My brothers and fathers, give hearing. The God of glory came to our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he was living in Haran,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

So when they had gone through all the land,.... Beginning at the east, and from thence to the north, and then going about to the west, came to the south, which finished their circuit:

they came to Jerusalem, at the end of nine months and twenty days: they were ten months wanting ten days in numbering the people; in which they seem to have been very expeditious.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Samuel 24:8. Nine months and twenty days. — This was a considerable time; but they had much work to do, nor did they complete the work, as appears from 1 Chronicles 21:6; 1 Chronicles 27:24. William the Conqueror made a survey of all England, particularizing "how many hides or carucates the land is taxed at; whose it was in the time of his predecessor Edward; who the present owners and sub-tenants; what and how much arable land, meadow, pasture, and wood there is, how much in demesne, i.e., held and cultivated by the landowners; how much in tenantcy, and what number of ploughs it will keep; what mills and fisheries; how many sockmen, freemen, co-liberti, cotarii, bordarii, radmanni, radchenisters, villains, maid-servants, and bondmen, there are; how many hogs the woods would support; how many churches, priests, or parsons; what customary rents, prestations, and services, are to be paid and rendered out of the lands; what has been added to the manor; what has been withheld from it, and by whom; what land is waste, and what the whole was let for in the time of King Edward; and what the nett rent, and whether it was too dear rented, and whether it might be improved." This survey was begun in the year 1080, and was finished in the year 1086, six years having been employed in the work. This most important document is still preserved; it is in the Chapter House, Westminster, in two volumes, one in folio, on three hundred and eighty-two leaves of vellum. the other in quarto, on four hundred and fifty leaves; and is in as good preservation as it was seven hundred years ago. This work was much more difficult than that which was performed by Joab and his fellows. The work itself is known by the name Domesday Book.


 
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