1 Now this is the enumeration of the sons of Israel, the heads of fathers' households, the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, and their officers who served the king in all the affairs of the divisions which came in and went out month by month throughout all the months of the year, each divisionnumbering 24,000:
23 But David did not count those twenty years of age and under, because the LORD had said He would multiply Israel as the stars of heaven.
24 Joab the son of Zeruiah had begun to countthem, but did not finish; and because of this, wrath came upon Israel, and the number was not included in the account of the chronicles of King David.