1 Chronicles 27:23–24

27:23 David did not count the males twenty years old and under, for the Lord had promised to make Israel as numerous as the stars in the sky. 27:24 Joab son of Zeruiah started to count the men but did not finish. God was angry with Israel5 because of this, so the number was not recorded in the scroll6 called The Annals of King David.

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5	tn Heb “anger was on Israel.”
6	tc The Hebrew text has “in the number,” but מִסְפַּר (mispar) is probably dittographic—note that the same word appears immediately before this. The form should be emended to בְּסֵפֶר (bésefar, “in the scroll”).