1 Chronicles 27:24 -

It seems a little surprising to read of Joab, fixed on the page of history as the person who began to number, but … finished not, when we have been already particularly told that it was he to whom King David's command to number was "abominable" ( 1 Chronicles 21:6 ). However differently enough from the method of either nature or mankind, the antidote has here preceded the evil. For because there fell wrath for it , read the Hebrew, and there was for this wrath upon Israel. The last sentence of the verse purports to say that such numbering as had been done before the point at which Joab stopped was not honoured by a place, where other numbers were found, in the register of the chronicles of King David.