Going second time. First time i got only 2 answers. KNolwedge of bible is required.?

No, its not true. Ancient manuscripts are notorious for exaggerating numbers, and none can be taken at face value, whether the text is religious or not.

Well, in those times, there weren't a lot of banker jobs or computer technicians. If you were of age, you were recruited into the military during times of war. The women would stay home and take care of the crops or family business along with the servants (or slaves). Also, because of the necessity for hand-to-hand combat, it required many more men than it does today to effectively fight a war. Therefore, there were a lot more people in the military then. I'm sure some of the numbers were rounded (probably upwards).

I doubt it, though of course it can't be proven one way or another. If you're referencing the Bible as the source, are you also questioning the ages of all the patriarchs, who lived well past 150 with every successive generation? Biologically possible, sure, but not very d*mn likely. Are you a literalist? Do you take the Bible as fact? Or are you like me, and simply take the story to mean that there were many, many soldiers -- too many to be overcome?

First of all, that was 12 tribes, not two, and secondly, the US army is entirely voluntary. Unlike the Israelite army, it does not comprise anywhere near the sum total of able-bodied adults in the US (even if we count just the men).

The "army" mentioned is the militia, which was pretty much everyone, who left their farms for a month or 2 in the winter to fight, when their was no farming to do. The "Men of Judah" is the professional army, who didn't also farm.

Just like how "million", "billion", and "trillion" have different meanings in America from what they mean in the UK, numbers may have come out differently in the scriptures when written out different times because of how they were written.

It doesn't matter much anyway; the important thing in the book is the prinicples taught.

I'm not sure. It could mean that Judah made up that many of the army. At this point Israel had not divided.

PicassoInAct...,

WOW!

That's amazing! King James Version, right?

Incredible! You mean there were people before now?

Whoa!

ancient texts always greatly exaggerate the size of armies or of the numbers of enemies killed

I'll look that up...interesting, thanks for the food for thought