2 Samuel 24:3-5

Lexham English Bible

³ Then Joab said to the king, “May Yahweh your God increase the people a hundred times what they are^[a] as the eyes of my lord the king are seeing. But my lord the king, why does he desire this thing?” ⁴ But the word of the king prevailed over Joab and over the commanders of the army, so Joab and the commanders of the army went out from before the king to count the people of Israel. ⁵ They crossed over the Jordan and camped at Aroer to the south of the city, which was in the middle of the wadi of Gad, and up to Jazer.