^{1 Ref} Now Satan, designing evil against Israel, put into David's mind the impulse to take the number of Israel.

^{2 Ref} And David said to Joab and the captains of the people, Now let all Israel, from Beer-sheba to Dan, be numbered; and give me word so that I may be certain of their number.

^{3 Ref} And Joab said, May the Lord make his people a hundred times more in number than they are; but, my lord king, are they not all my lord's servants? why would my lord have this done? why will he become a cause of sin to Israel?

^{4 Ref} But the king's word was stronger than Joab's. So Joab went out and went through all Israel and came to Jerusalem.

^{5 Ref} And Joab gave David the number of all the people; all the men of Israel, able to take up arms, were one million, one hundred thousand men; and those of Judah were four hundred and seventy thousand men, able to take up arms.