2 Samuel 24:3-5

Amplified Bible, Classic Edition

³ And Joab said to the king, May the Lord your God add a hundred times as many people as there are, and let the eyes of my lord the king see it; but why does my lord the king delight in this thing?

⁴ But the king’s word prevailed against Joab and the commanders of the army. So they went from the king’s presence to number the Israelites.

⁵ They passed over the Jordan and encamped in Aroer, on the south side of the city lying in the midst of the ravine [of the Arnon] toward Gad, and on to Jazer.