But David didn't take the number of them from twenty years old and under, because Yahweh had said he would increase Israel like the stars of the sky.
And Ahithophel was the king's counselor: with Hushai the Archite who was the king's companion: and after Ahithophel was Jehoiada and Joab, of course, was the general of the army ( 1 Chronicles 27:33-34 ). "