2 Samuel 24:1–9

^aAnd ^bagain the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he moved David against them to say, ^cGo, number Israel and Judah. ²For the king said to Joab the captain of the host, which was with him, Go now through all the tribes of Israel, ^dfrom Dan even to Beer-sheba, and number ye the people, that I may know the number of the people. ³And Joab said unto the king, Now ^ethe Lord thy God add unto the people, how many soever they be, an hundredfold, and that the eyes of my lord the king may see it: but why doth my lord the king delight in this thing? ⁴Notwithstanding the king’s word prevailed against Joab, and against the captains of the host. And Joab and the captains of the host went out from the presence of the king, to number the people of Israel. ⁵And they passed over Jordan, and pitched in ^fAroer, on the right side of the city that lieth in the midst of the river of Gad, and toward ^gJazer: ⁶then they came to Gilead, and to the land of Tahtim-hodshi; and they came to ^hDan-jaan, and about to ⁱZidon, ⁷and came to the ^jstrong hold of Tyre, and to all the cities of ^kthe Hivites, and of ^kthe Canaanites: and they went out to the south of Judah, even to Beer-sheba. ⁸So when they had gone through all the land, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days. ⁹And Joab gave up the sum of the number of the people unto the king: ^land there were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men ^mthat drew the sword; and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand men.