1 Chronicles 21:3-5

Christian Standard Bible

³ Joab replied, “May the Lord multiply the number of his people a hundred times over!^(A) My lord the king, aren’t they all my lord’s servants? Why does my lord want to do this? Why should he bring guilt on Israel?”

⁴ Yet the king’s order prevailed over Joab. So Joab left and traveled throughout Israel and then returned to Jerusalem. ⁵ Joab gave the total troop registration to David. In all Israel there were one million one hundred thousand armed men^[a] and in Judah itself four hundred seventy thousand armed men.