Joab, the son of Zeruiah, began to number, as David commanded him, 1 Chronicles 21:2, but he finished not, the pestilence from the Lord falling upon the people before he had visited the tribe of Benjamin, because there fell wrath for it against Israel, 1 Chronicles 21:7; 2 Samuel 24:15; neither was the number put in the account of the chronicles of King David, not entered in the daily records or annals of the king's reign, partly on account of the incompleteness of the records, partly on account of the terrible calamity associated with the census.

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