¹¹ “So I advise you: Let all Israel, from Dan to Beersheba^(A)—as numerous as the sand^(B) on the seashore—be gathered to you, with you yourself leading them into battle.

² So the king said to Joab^(A) and the army commanders^[a] with him, “Go throughout the tribes of Israel from Dan to Beersheba^(B) and enroll^(C) the fighting men, so that I may know how many there are.”

¹⁵ So the Lord sent a plague on Israel from that morning until the end of the time designated, and seventy thousand of the people from Dan to Beersheba died.^(A)

The Israelites Punish the Benjamites

20 Then all Israel^(A) from Dan to Beersheba^(B) and from the land of Gilead came together as one^(C) and assembled^(D) before the Lord in Mizpah.^(E)

²⁰ And all Israel from Dan to Beersheba^(A) recognized that Samuel was attested as a prophet of the Lord.^(B)

²⁵ During Solomon’s lifetime Judah and Israel, from Dan to Beersheba,^(A) lived in safety,^(B) everyone under their own vine and under their own fig tree.^(C)