kjv - 1Chronicles:21:1-7

kjv@1Chronicles:21:1 @ And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.

kjv@1Chronicles:21:2 @ And David said to Joab and to the rulers of the people, Go, number Israel from Beersheba even to Dan; and bring the number of them to me, that I may know it.

kjv@1Chronicles:21:3 @ And Joab answered, The LORD make his people an hundred times so many more as they be: but, my lord the king, are they not all my lord's servants? why then doth my lord require this thing? why will he be a cause of trespass to Israel?

kjv@1Chronicles:21:4 @ Nevertheless the king's word prevailed against Joab. Wherefore Joab departed, and went throughout all Israel, and came to Jerusalem.

kjv@1Chronicles:21:5 @ And Joab gave the sum of the number of the people unto David. And all they of Israel were a thousand thousand and an hundred thousand men that drew sword: and Judah was four hundred threescore and ten thousand men that drew sword.

kjv@1Chronicles:21:6 @ But Levi and Benjamin counted he not among them: for the king's word was abominable to Joab.

kjv@1Chronicles:21:7 @ And God was displeased with this thing; therefore he smote Israel.