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David orders Joab to count the people.
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2 Samuel 24:2

The king instructs Joab

The Census and the Altar · 2 Samuel 24

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2So the king said to Joab, the commander of the army who was with him, “Go about now through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan to Beer-sheba, and count the people, so that I may know the number of the people.”

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