1 Chronicles 21:3-5

International Standard Version

³ But Joab replied, “May the Lord increase the population of his people a hundredfold! Your majesty,^[a] all of them are your majesty’s servants, aren’t they? So why should your majesty demand this? Why should he bring guilt to Israel?”

⁴ But the king’s order overruled Joab, so Joab left, traveled throughout all of Israel, and then returned to Jerusalem ⁵ to report the total population count to David. Throughout all of Israel there were 1,100,000 men trained for war.^[b] In Judah there were 470,000 men trained for war.