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1 Samuel 15:4

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And Saul gathered the people together, and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah.
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  1. Joshua 15:24Rank 1 from verse 4
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    24Ziph, and Telem, and Bealoth,

  2. 1 Samuel 11:8Rank 2 from verse 4
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    8And when he numbered them in Bezek, the children of Israel were three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty thousand.

  3. 1 Samuel 13:15Rank 3 from verse 4
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    15And Samuel arose, and gat him up from Gilgal unto Gibeah of Benjamin. And Saul numbered the people that were present with him, about six hundred men.

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1 Samuel 15:4

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gathered

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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of gather, meaning to collect, bring together, or assemble.

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people

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Persons collectively; a nation, community, or group considered as a body.

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numbered

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Counted, reckoned, enrolled, listed, included in a company or class, or measured as to number or extent.

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in

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1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.

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3Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.

4And Saul gathered the people together, and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah.

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5And Saul came to a city of Amalek, and laid wait in the valley.

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