1 Chronicles 21:3-6 Then said Joab, May Yahweh add unto his people, as many as they are, a hundred times, but are they not, my lord O king, all of them my lord’s, as servants? wherefore should my lord seek this? wherefore should it become guilt to Israel?

Rotherham⁽ⁱ⁾ ³ Then said Joab, May Yahweh add unto his people, as many as they are, a hundred times, but are they not, my lord O king, all of them my lord’s, as servants? wherefore should my lord seek this? wherefore should it become guilt to Israel? ⁴ But, the word of the king, prevailed against Joab,––and Joab departed, and went to and fro throughout all Israel, and came to Jerusalem. ⁵ And Joab delivered the sum of the number of the people, unto David,––and all Israel was found to be a thousand thousand and a hundred thousand men, who drew sword, and Judah, four hundred and seventy thousand men, who drew sword. ⁶ But, Levi and Benjamin, counted he not among them,––for detestable was the word of the king unto Joab.