2Sa 24:3-8 | ESV | STEP | But Joab said to the king , 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 it, but why does my lord the king delight in this thing ?

2 Samuel 24:3-8

3 But Joab said to the king, ^a“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 it, but why does my lord the king delight in this thing?” 4 But the king’s word prevailed against Joab and the commanders of the army. So Joab and the commanders of the army went out from the presence of the king to number the people of Israel. 5 They crossed the Jordan and began from ^bAroer, ^{▼▼Septuagint; Hebrew encamped in Aroer} and from the city that is in the middle of the ^dvalley, toward Gad and on to ^eJazer. 6 Then they came to Gilead, and to Kadesh in the land of the Hittites; ^{▼▼Septuagint; Hebrew to the land of Tahtim-hodshi} and they came to Dan, and from Dan ^{▼▼Septuagint; Hebrew they came to Dan-jaan and} they went around to ^hSidon, 7 and came to the fortress of Tyre and to all the cities of the ⁱHivites and ^jCanaanites; and they went out to the Negeb of Judah at Beersheba. 8 So when they had gone through all the land, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.