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23 But David took not the number of them from twenty years old and under, because the Lord had said He would increase Israel like the stars of the heavens.

24 Joab the son of Zeruiah began to number them but he finished not, because there fell wrath because of it against Israel, neither was the number put in the account of the chronicles of King David.

25 And over the king’s treasuries was Azmaveth the son of Adiel; and over the storehouses in the fields, in the cities, and in the villages, and in the strongholds, was Jehonathan the son of Uzziah.

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