To omit the Levites would be to follow the precedent recorded in Numbers 1:47-49. The omission of Benjamin must be ascribed to Joab's determination…

The Census.

So he did no more of it than he absolutely had to.

(See Gill on 1 Chronicles 21:1).

No mention is made in this book of David's sin in the matter of Uriah, nor of the troubles that followed it, for they had no necessary connection w…