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Numbers 1:2-3

Take up the sum of all the assembly of the sons of Israel, according to their families, according to the house of their fathers, with the number of names, every male according to their head: From the son of twenty years and above, all going forth to war in Israel; ye shall review them according to their armies, thou and Aaron.

Numbers 1:17-19

And Moses will take, and Aaron, these men which were called by names: And they gathered together all the assembly in one of the second month, and they will declare their birth according to their families, according to the the son of twenty years and above, all going forth to war As Jehovah commanded Moses, and he reviewed them in the desert of Sinai.

Numbers 26:2

Take the head of all the assembly of the sons of Israel, from the son of twenty years and above, according to the house of their fathers, all going forth to war in Israel.

Judges 4:4-7

And Deborah, a woman, a prophetess, wife to Lapidoth, she judged Israel in that time. And she will dwell under the palm tree of Deborah, between Ramah and between Bethel, in mount Ephraim: and the sons of Israel will go up to her for judgment And she will send and call for Barak, son of Abinoam, from KadeshNaphtali; and she will say to him, Did not Jehovah the God of Israel command, Go, and draw into mount Tabor, and take with thee ten thousand men from the sons of Naphtali and from the sons of Zebulon?read more.
And I drew to thee to the torrent Kishon, Sisera, captain of Jabin's army, and his chariots and his multitude; and I gave him into thy hand.

Judges 7:1-8

And Jerub-Baal (he is Gideon) will rise early and all the people that is with him, and they will encamp by the fountain of Harod: and the camp of Midian was to him from the north from the hill of Moreh, in the valley. And Jehovah will say to Gideon, The people many which are with thee for me to give Midian into their hand, lest Israel shall glory before me, saying, My hand saved me. And now, call now in the ears of the people, saying, Who being afraid and trembling shall turn back and turn about from mount Gilead. And there will turn back from the people twenty and two thousand; and ten thousand were leftread more.
And Jehovah will say to Gideon, Yet the people many; bring them down to the waters, and I will purify them for thee there; and it shall be of whom saying to thee, This shall go with thee, he shall go with thee; and all which saying to thee, This shall not go with thee, he shall not go. And he will bring down the people to the waters: and Jehovah will say to Gideon, Every one which shall lap with his tongue from the waters as the dog will lap, thou shalt put him alone; and all which shall bend upon his knees to drink And the number of those lapping with their hand to their mouth, will be three hundred men: and all the remainder of the people bowed upon their knees to drink water. And Jehovah will say to Gideon, By the three hundred men lapping, I will save you, and give Midian into thy hand: and all the people shall go, a man to his place. And the people will take food in their hand and their trumpets: and he sent all the men of Israel a man to his tent, and by the three hundred men he was strengthened: and the camp of Midian was to him beneath in the valley.

Judges 20:15-17

And the sons of Benjamin will be reviewed in that day from the cities, twenty and six thousand men drawing the sword, besides from the inhabitants of Gibeah they were reviewed, seven hundred chosen men. From all this people, seven hundred chosen men shut up of the right hand, slinging at a hair, and they will not miss. And the men of Israel were reviewed, beside Benjamin, four hundred thousand men drawing sword: all these men of war.

1 Samuel 13:2

And Saul will choose to him three thousand from Israel; and two thousand will be with Saul in Michmash, and in the mount of the house of God, and a thousand were with Jonathan in the hill of Benjamin: and the remainder of the people he sent a man to his tent.

1 Samuel 14:52

And strong war will be against the rovers all the days of Saul: and Saul seeing every strong man and every son of strength, and he will gather him to him.

1 Chronicles 27:1-15

And the sons of Israel for their number, heads of the fathers and chiefs of thousands and hundreds, and their scribes serving the king for all the word of the divisions coming in and going forth month by month for all the months of the year, of the one division, twenty and four thousand. Over the first division for the first month, Jashobeam, son of Zabdiel: and upon his division twenty and four thousand. From the sons of Perez the head to all the chief. of the armies for the first month.read more.
And over the course of the second month, Dodai the Ahohite, and his division, Mikloth the leader: and for his division twenty and four thousand. The chief of the army the third for the third month, Benaiah son of Jehoida the head priest: and for his division twenty and four thousand. This the Benaiah the strong one of the thirty, and over the thirty: and his division Ammisabad his son. The fourth for the fourth month, Asahel, brother of Joab, and Zebadiah his son after him: and for his division twenty and four thousand. The fifth for the fifth month, the chief Shamhuth the Izrahite: and for his division twenty and four thousand. The sixth for the sixth month, Ira son of Ikkesh the Tekoite: and over his division twenty and four thousand. The seventh for the seventh month, Helez the Pelonite, from the sons of Ephraim: and for his division twenty and four thousand. The eighth for the eighth month, Sibbecai the Hushathite to the Zarhites: and for his division twenty and four thousand. The ninth for the ninth month, Abiezer the Anathothite for the Benjamites: and for his division twenty and four thousand. The tenth for the tenth month, Maharai the Netophathite to the Zarhites: and for his division twenty and four thousand. The eleventh for the eleventh month, Benaiah the Pirathonite from the sons of Ephraim: and for his division twenty and four thousand. The twelfth for the twelfth month, Heldai the Netophathite, to Othniel: and for his division twenty and four thousand.

2 Kings 25:19

And out of the city he took one eunuch, he who was appointed over the men of war, and five men seeing the face of the king, who were found in the city, and the scribe of the chief of the army mustering the people of the land, and sixty men from the people of the land being found in the city:

Jeremiah 52:25

And from the city he took one eunuch who was appointed over the men of war; and seven men seeing the face of the king, who were found in the city; and the scribe of the chief of the army mustering the people of the land; and sixty men from the people of the land being found in the midst of the city.

1 Kings 5:13-15

And king Solomon will bring up a tribute from all Israel; and the tribute will be thirty thousand men. And he will send them to Lebanon, ten thousand by the month; being changed, a month they shall be in Lebanon and two months in his house. And Adoniram over the tribute. And there will be to Solomon seventy thousand lifting up a burden, and eighty thousand hewing in the mountain.

2 Chronicles 2:2

And Solomon will number seventy thousand men to carry, and eighty thousand men to hew in the mountain; and they superintending over them three thousand six hundred.

1 Kings 9:15

And this the word of tribute which king Solomon brought up to build the house of Jehovah, and his house, and the fortress, and the walls of Jerusalem, and the enclosure, and Megiddo, and Gezer.

2 Chronicles 8:7-8

All the people being left from the Hittites and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites and the Jebusites, which they were not from Israel, From their sons who were left after them in the land which the sons of Israel consumed them not, and Solomon will bring them up for tribute even to this day.

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1 Samuel 14:52

And strong war will be against the rovers all the days of Saul: and Saul seeing every strong man and every son of strength, and he will gather him to him.

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