1 Chronicles 21:2-4

Darby Translation

² And David said to Joab and to the princes of the people, Go, number Israel from Beer-sheba even to Dan; and bring the number of them to me, that I may know it.

³ And Joab said, Jehovah add to his people, how many soever they be, a hundredfold: are they not all, my lord O king, my lord's servants? why does my lord require this thing? why should he become a trespass to Israel?

⁴ But the king's word prevailed against Joab; and Joab departed, and went through all Israel, and came [again] to Jerusalem.