Thomson(i)
3 Joab replied, The Lord add to his people a hundred times as many as there are. and may the eyes of my lord the king see it. They are all servants to my lord. Why doth my lord seek this? May it not be a cause of trespass to Israel?
4 But the king's determination prevailed against Joab, so he went forth, and having passed through all Israel, and come to Jerusalem,
5 he gave David an account of the review of the people, and the whole number of the men of Israel who drew a sword, w r as eleven hundred thousand, and the children of Juda were four hundred and seventy thousand men who drew a sword.
6 But he did not number Levi and Benjamin among them. Because the king's word prevailed over Joab,