David’s Military Census

24 The Lord’s anger burned against Israel again, and He stirred up David against them to say: “Go, count the people of Israel and Judah.”^(A)

¹⁰ ‘If you will indeed stay in this land, then I will rebuild and not demolish you,^(A) and I will plant and not uproot you, because I relent concerning the disaster^(B) that I have brought on you.

¹⁰ Then God saw their actions—that they had turned from their evil ways^(A)—so God relented from the disaster^(B) He had threatened to do to them. And He did not do it.