1 Chronicles 21:6

The Census Of David

⁵ And Joab gave David the number of all the people; all the men of Israel, able to take up arms, were one million, one hundred thousand men; and those of Judah were four hundred and seventy thousand men, able to take up arms. ⁶ But Levi and Benjamin were not numbered among them, for Joab was disgusted with the king's order. ⁷ And God was not pleased with this thing; so he sent punishment on Israel.

Benjamin

Joab

Levi

Levites

Numbers 1:47-49

But the Levites, of the tribe of their fathers, were not numbered among them.

2 Samuel 3:27

And when Abner was back in Hebron, Joab took him on one side by the doorway of the town to have a word with him quietly, and there he gave him a wound in the stomach, causing his death in payment for the death of his brother Asahel.

2 Samuel 11:15-21

And in the letter he said, Take care to put Uriah in the very front of the line, where the fighting is most violent, and go back from him, so that he may be overcome and put to death.

2 Samuel 20:9-10

And Joab said to Amasa, Is it well, my brother? And with his right hand he took him by the hair of his chin to give him a kiss.

1 Chronicles 27:24

The numbering was started by Joab, the son of Zeruiah, but he did not go on to the end; and because of it, wrath came on Israel and the number was not recorded in the history of King David.