Holier Than Thou - Biblical Contradictions

How many fighting men did Joab report to David?

2 Samuel 24:9, "Joab reported the number of the fighting men to the king: In Israel there were eight hundred thousand able-bodied men who could handle a sword, and in Judah five hundred thousand."

1 Chronicles 21:5, "Joab reported the number of the fighting men to David: In all Israel there were one million one hundred thousand men who could handle a sword, including four hundred and seventy thousand in Judah."

According to 2 Samuel chapter 24, Joab reported the number of the fighting men to King David as 800,000 in Israel and 500,000 in Judah, however, according to the same account in 1 Chronicles chapter 21, Joab reported 1,100,000 men in Israel and 470,000 in Judah.

"Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better. The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth." (Ecclesiastes 7:3-4, KJV)

"Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun." (Ecclesiastes 8:15, KJV)