An army of one million

The largest Civil War armies that were together as a unit were around a half-million, & they could travel only as fast as their supply trains, same as ancient armies, as they all had to be fed & have water & latrines. Same as ancient armies, they had large numbers of animals with them, that had to eat & drink as well. Also, the commanders couldn't get their orders to all the men too quickly. The Civil War armies were the last large armies to travel the same way the ancient armies did.

I'd say the censuses the old Israelis made of fighting-age men were fairly-accurate. And the 200-million-person Oriental army in Revelation is VERY-accurate, as it's from GOD. And awhile back, China by itself boasted of having a 200-million-person army available, which I don't doubt for a second.

But as for the million-man Ethiopian army, I believe what the Cambridge people said-it was a large army the Israelis couldn't count.

 

A number in holy scripture would be true and the number can actually be more.

Numbers 24:9, ". . . And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand. . . ."

1 Corinthians 10:8, ". . . some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand. . . ."

 

It's a literal number,
as God, who cannot lie, has stated it.

 

https://www.scripture4all.org/OnlineInterlinear/OTpdf/2ch14.pdf
2 Chronicles 14 Interlinear Bible
2 Chronicles 14:9 - וַיֵּצֵ֨א אֲלֵיהֶ֜ם... - Interlinear Study Bible
2 Chronicles 14

 

There are instances in the Hebrew texts though where the numbers cannot be determined with absolute certainty, so that army would be a large number is fine, even is exact count was wrong!

 

There are instances in the Hebrew texts though where the numbers cannot be determined with absolute certainty, so that army would be a large number is fine, even is exact count was wrong!