1 Chronicles 21:3-5

Evangelical Heritage Version

³ Joab said, “The Lord will multiply his people a hundred times. Are not all of them your servants, my lord the king? Why does my lord want to do this? Why should there be guilt upon Israel?”

⁴ But the word of the king overruled Joab.

Joab went throughout all Israel and came back to Jerusalem. ⁵ He reported the total number of the people to David: In all Israel there were one million one hundred thousand men who could draw the sword, including four hundred seventy thousand from Judah who could draw the sword.