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1 And an adversary will stand up against Israel, and he will stimulate David to number Israel. 2 And David will say to Joab and to the chiefs of the people, Go number Israel from the well of the oath even to judgment, and bring to me and I shall know their number. 3 And Joab will say, Jehovah will add to his people as they are, a hundred times: are they not, my lord the king, all of them for servants to my lord? for what will my lord seek this? wherefore will he be for trespass to Israel? 4 And the word of the king was strong upon Joab. And Joab will go forth, and he will go about in all Israel, and he will come to Jerusalem. 5 And Joab will give the number of reviewing the people to David. And all Israel will be a thousand thousand and a hundred thousand men drawing sword: and Judah four hundred and seventy thousand men drawing sword. 6 And Levi and Benjamin he reviewed not in the midst of them: for the king's word was abhorred with Joab. 7 And it will be evil in the eyes of God concerning this word, and he will strike Israel. 8 And David will say to God, I sinned greatly that I did this word: and now cause to pass away now the iniquity of thy servant, for I acted very foolishly. 1 Chronicles 21:1-8, Smith's Literal Translation. Public domain.
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