David’s numbering of the people was therefore a military arrangement to determine the size of his standing army. In addition to a widespread ancien…

But David took (Numbers 3:40, nâsâ’mispar) not the number of them. —This and the next verse …

But David took not the number of them from twenty years old
and under
Only those that…

The officers of the court, or the rulers of the king's possessions, had the oversight and charge of the king's cultivated land, his vineyards, his …