David conducts a census, and a nervous Joab is instructed to obey. Joab spares the Benjamites and Levites from the census, an act that displeased God. God used the prophet Gad to give David three options: three years of famine, three months of defeat in war, or three days of plague. David chose the plague, and 70,000 Israelites were killed.
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