⁹ Then Joab gave the sum of the number of the people to the king. ^(A)And there were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men who drew the sword, and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand men.

²³ But David did not take the number of those twenty years old and under, because ^(A)the Lord had said He would multiply Israel like the ^(B)stars of the heavens. ²⁴ Joab the son of Zeruiah began a census, but he did not finish, for ^(C)wrath came upon Israel because of this census; nor was the number recorded in the account of the chronicles of King David.

⁵ Then Joab gave the sum of the number of the people to David. All Israel had one million one hundred thousand men who drew the sword, and Judah had four hundred and seventy thousand men who drew the sword. ^6 (A)But he did not count Levi and Benjamin among them, for the king’s ^[a]word was abominable to Joab.

^44 (A)These are the ones who were numbered, whom Moses and Aaron numbered, with the leaders of Israel, twelve men, each one representing his father’s house. ⁴⁵ So all who were numbered of the children of Israel, by their fathers’ houses, from twenty years old and above, all who were able to go to war in Israel— ⁴⁶ all who were numbered were ^(B)six hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty.