2 Samuel 24:9-11

Common English Bible

⁹ Joab reported to the king the number of the people who had been counted: in Israel there were eight hundred thousand strong men who could handle a sword; in Judah the total was five hundred thousand men.

¹⁰ But after this David felt terrible that he had counted the people. David said to the Lord, “I have sinned greatly in what I have done. Now, Lord, please take away the guilt of your servant because I have done something very foolish.”

¹¹ When David got up the next morning, the Lord’s word came to the prophet Gad, David’s seer: