2 Samuel 24:9-11

Living Bible

⁹ And Joab reported the number of the people to the king—800,000 men of conscription age in Israel and 500,000 in Judah.

¹⁰ But after he had taken the census, David’s conscience began to bother him, and he said to the Lord, “What I did was very wrong. Please forgive this foolish wickedness of mine.”

¹¹ The next morning the word of the Lord came to the prophet Gad, who was David’s contact with God.

The Lord said to Gad,