1 Chronicles 27:24
Joab the son of Zeruiah began to number, but he finished not, because there fell wrath for it against Israel; neither was the number put in the account of the chronicles of king David.
Cross-reference
1 Chronicles 21:1-17 provides the full account of David's census and the resulting plague, which is summarized here as 'wrath came on Israel'.
1 Chronicles 21:1-17 provides the full account of David's census and the resulting plague, which is summarized here as 'wrath came on Israel'.
2 Samuel 24:1-15 gives parallel account of the census, with Satan inciting David and God's anger; adds details not in Chronicles.
Exodus 30:12 commands a ransom be paid during a census to avert plague—David's failure to do so explains the wrath here.
2 Samuel 24:9 gives the actual numbers from the census that Joab reported, which 1 Chronicles 27:24 says were not entered in the annals.
Numbers 1:2 records God commanding a lawful census of Israel, contrasting with David's unauthorized census that brought wrath.