1 Chronicles 21:1-3

21st Century King James Version

21 And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.

² And David said to Joab and to the rulers of the people, “Go, number Israel from Beersheba even to Dan, and bring the number of them to me, that I may know it.”

³ And Joab answered, “The Lord make His people a hundred times more than they are. But, my lord the king, are they not all my lord’s servants? Why then doth my lord require this thing? Why will he be a cause of trespass to Israel?”