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Joab reported the census figures to the king: In Israel there were 800,000 able-bodied men who could serve in the army, and in Judah there were 500,000.

10 After David counted the people, his conscience troubled him. David said to Yahweh, “I have committed a terrible sin by what I have done. Yahweh, please forgive me because I have acted very foolishly.”

11 When David got up in the morning, Yahweh spoke his word to the prophet Gad, David’s seer.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 24:11 A seer is a prophet.

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