1 Chronicles 21:3-6 And Joab said, May the Lord make his people a hundred times more in number than they are; but, my lord king, are they not all my lord's servants? why would my lord have this done? why will he become a cause of sin to Israel?

BBE⁽ⁱ⁾ ³ And Joab said, May the Lord make his people a hundred times more in number than they are; but, my lord king, are they not all my lord's servants? why would my lord have this done? why will he become a cause of sin to Israel? ⁴ But the king's word was stronger than Joab's. So Joab went out and went through all Israel and came to Jerusalem. ⁵ And Joab gave David the number of all the people; all the men of Israel, able to take up arms, were one million, one hundred thousand men; and those of Judah were four hundred and seventy thousand men, able to take up arms. ⁶ But Levi and Benjamin were not numbered among them, for Joab was disgusted with the king's order.