2Sa 24:1-9 | NASB1995 | STEP | Now again the anger of the Lord burned against Israel , and it incited David against them to say , “ Go , number Israel and Judah .”

2 Samuel 24:1-9

1 ^aNow ^bagain the anger of the Lord burned against Israel, and it incited David against them to say, ^c“Go, number Israel and Judah.” 2 The king said to Joab the commander of the army who was with him, “Go about now through all the tribes of Israel, ^dfrom Dan to Beersheba, and ^{▼▼ Lit muster}register the people, that I may know the number of the people.” 3 But Joab said to the king, ^f“Now may the Lord your God add to the people a hundred times as many as they are, while the eyes of my lord the king still see; but why does my lord the king delight in this thing?” 4 Nevertheless, the king’s word prevailed against Joab and against the commanders of the army. So Joab and the commanders of the army went out from the presence of the king to ^{▼▼ Lit muster}register the people of Israel. 5 They crossed the Jordan and camped in ^hAroer, on the right side of the city that is in the middle of the valley of Gad and toward ⁱJazer. 6 Then they came to Gilead and to ^{▼▼ Or Kadesh in the land of the Hittite}the land of Tahtim-hodshi, and they came to Dan-jaan and around to ^kSidon, 7 and came to the ^lfortress of Tyre and to all the cities of the ^mHivites and of the Canaanites, and they went out to the south of Judah, to ⁿBeersheba. 8 So when they had gone about through the whole land, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days. 9 And Joab gave ^othe number of the ^{▼▼ Lit muster}registration of the people to the king; and there were in Israel ^qeight hundred thousand valiant men who drew the sword, and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand men.