1 Chronicles 21:3-5

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³ But Joab objected. “If the Lord were to multiply his people a hundred times, would they not all be yours? So why are you asking us to do this? Why must you cause Israel to sin?”

⁴ But the king won the argument, and Joab did as he was told; he traveled all through Israel and returned to Jerusalem. ⁵ The total population figure which he gave came to 1,100,000 men of military age in Israel and 470,000 in Judah.