Wherewith David his father had numbered them; for David had not only numbered his own people, for which he smarted, 2Sa 24; but afterward he numbered the strangers, not out of vanity, but that Solomon might have a true account of them, and employ them about his buildings, as he saw fit. Yet Solomon thought fit to number them again, because death might have made a considerable alteration among them since David's numbering of them; and it behoved him to have an exact account of them.
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2 Chronicles 2:17
17 And Solomon numbered all the strangersg that were in the land of Israel, after the numbering wherewith David his father had numbered them; and they were found an hundred and fifty thousand and three thousand and six hundred.