Joab the son of Zeruiah began to number, but he did not finish. And wrath was on Israel for this. And the number did not go up in the account of the Matters of the Days of King David.
All these were the sons of Asher, heads of their fathers’ house, choice, mighty men of strength, heads of the rulers. And their enrollment in the warfare in the battle, their number was twenty six thousand men.
And it happened that a day came when the sons of God came to present themselves before Jehovah. And Satan also came among them to present himself before Jehovah.
When you lift up the head of the sons of Israel, of those numbered, each man shall give the ransom of his soul to Jehovah when numbering them; and there shall not be a plague among them when numbering them.
And I heard a great voice saying in Heaven, Now has come the salvation and power and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of His Christ, because the accuser of our brothers is thrown down, the one accusing them before our God day and night.