Quotes About Census

These were the ones numbered by Moses and Eleazar the priest when they counted the Israelites on the plains of Moab by the Jordan, across from Jericho.

Among all these, however, there was not one who had been numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest when they counted the Israelites in the Wilderness of Sinai.

61,000 donkeys,

and 16,000 people.

For when the people were counted, none of the residents of Jabesh-gilead were there.

Again the anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He stirred up David against them, saying, “Go and take a census of Israel and Judah.”

So the king said to Joab the commander of his army, who was with him, “Go now throughout the tribes of Israel from Dan to Beersheba and register the troops, so that I may know their number.”

At the end of nine months and twenty days, having gone through the whole land, they returned to Jerusalem.

Then Satan rose up against Israel and incited David to take a census of Israel.

And Joab reported to David the total number of the troops. In all Israel there were 1,100,000 men who drew the sword, including 470,000 in Judah.

The Levites thirty years of age or older were counted, and the total number of men was 38,000.

The twelfth, for the twelfth month, was Heldai the Netophathite, from the family of Othniel. There were 24,000 men in his division.

David did not count the men aged twenty or under, because the LORD had said that He would make Israel as numerous as the stars of the sky.

Joab son of Zeruiah began to count the men but did not finish. For because of this census wrath came upon Israel, and the number was not entered in the Book of the Chronicles of King David.

Solomon numbered all the foreign men in the land of Israel following the census his father David had conducted, and there were found to be 153,600 in all.

accompanied by Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, and Baanah. This is the count of the men of Israel:

the descendants of Parosh, 2,172;

the descendants of Arah, 775;

the descendants of Pahath-moab (through the line of Jeshua and Joab), 2,812;

the descendants of Elam, 1,254;

the descendants of Zattu, 945;

the descendants of Bani, 642;

the descendants of Bebai, 623;

the descendants of Azgad, 1,222;