The entire book of Numbers in the Bible is focused on the census. In Numbers, God commanded Moses to number all of the men over the age of 18 before the Israelites entered into the Promised Land. The purpose of the census was to count all of the men that could go out to battle and to take the land from their adversaries.
However, in II Kings chapter 24, King David ran an illegal census because the people were not at war at the time of the census. As the consequence of holding an illegal census, there was a pestilence upon the land of Israel for three days.
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