10:024:002 For the king said to Joab the captain of the host, which was
           with him, Go now through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan
           even to Beersheba, and number ye the people, that I may know
           the number of the people.

10:024:003 And Joab said unto the king, Now the lord thy God add unto the
           people, how many soever they be, an hundredfold, and that the
           eyes of my lord the king may see it:  but why doth my lord the
           king delight in this thing?

10:024:004 Notwithstanding the king’s word prevailed against Joab, and
           against the captains of the host.  And Joab and the captains of
           the host went out from the presence of the king, to number the
           people of Israel.

10:024:005 And they passed over Jordan, and pitched in Aroer, on the
           right side of the city that lieth in the midst of the river of
           Gad, and toward Jazer: 

10:024:006 Then they came to Gilead, and to the land of Tahtimhodshi; and
           they came to Danjaan, and about to Zidon,

10:024:007 And came to the strong hold of Tyre, and to all the cities of
           the Hivites, and of the Canaanites:  and they went out to the
           south of Judah, even to Beersheba.

10:024:008 So when they had gone through all the land, they came to
           Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.

10:024:009 And Joab gave up the sum of the number of the people unto the
           king:  and there were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant
           men that drew the sword; and the men of Judah were five
           hundred thousand men.

10:024:010 And David’s heart smote him after that he had numbered the
           people.  And David said unto the lord, I have sinned greatly in
           that I have done:  and now, I beseech thee, O lord, take away
           the iniquity of thy servant; for I have done very foolishly.

10:024:011 For when David was up in the morning, the word of the lord
           came unto the prophet Gad, David’s seer, saying,

10:024:012 Go and say unto David, Thus saith the lord, I offer thee three
           things; choose thee one of them, that I may do it unto thee.

10:024:013 So Gad came to David, and told him, and said unto him, Shall
           seven years of famine come unto thee in thy land? or wilt thou
           flee three months before thine enemies, while they pursue
           thee? or that there be three days’ pestilence in thy land? now
           advise, and see what answer I shall return to him that sent
           me.

10:024:014 And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait:  let us fall
           now into the hand of the lord; for his mercies are great:  and
           let me not fall into the hand of man.