2 Samuel 24:3

American Standard Version (1901)

And Joab said unto the king, Now Jehovah thy God add unto the people, how many soever they may be, a hundredfold; and may the eyes of my lord the king see it: but why doth my lord the king delight in this thing?

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 1:11 : 11 Jehovah, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times as many as ye are, and bless you, as he hath promised you!
  • Ps 115:14 : 14 Jehovah increase you more and more, You and your children.
  • Prov 14:28 : 28 In the multitude of people is the king's glory; But in the want of people is the destruction of the prince.
  • Isa 60:5 : 5 Then thou shalt see and be radiant, and thy heart shall thrill and be enlarged; because the abundance of the sea shall be turned unto thee, the wealth of the nations shall come unto thee.
  • 2 Sam 10:12 : 12 Be of good courage, and let us play the man for our people, and for the cities of our God: and Jehovah do that which seemeth him good.
  • 1 Chr 21:3-4 : 3 And Joab said, Jehovah make his people a hundred times as many as they are: but, my lord the king, are they not all my lord's servants? why doth my lord require this thing? why will he be a cause of guilt unto Israel? 4 Nevertheless the king's word prevailed against Joab. Wherefore Joab departed, and went throughout all Israel, and came to Jerusalem.

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  • 1 Chr 21:2-6
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    88%

    2And David said to Joab and to the princes of the people, Go, number Israel from Beer-sheba even to Dan; and bring me word, that I may know the sum of them.

    3And Joab said, Jehovah make his people a hundred times as many as they are: but, my lord the king, are they not all my lord's servants? why doth my lord require this thing? why will he be a cause of guilt unto Israel?

    4Nevertheless the king's word prevailed against Joab. Wherefore Joab departed, and went throughout all Israel, and came to Jerusalem.

    5And Joab gave up the sum of the numbering of the people unto David. And all they of Israel were a thousand thousand and a hundred thousand men that drew sword: and Judah was four hundred threescore and ten thousand men that drew sword.

    6But Levi and Benjamin counted he not among them; for the king's word was abominable to Joab.

  • 2 Sam 24:1-2
    2 verses
    81%

    1And again the anger of Jehovah was kindled against Israel, and he moved David against them, saying, Go, number Israel and Judah.

    2And the king said to Joab the captain of the host, who was with him, Go now to and fro through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, and number ye the people, that I may know the sum of the people.

  • 2 Sam 24:4
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    4Notwithstanding, the king's word prevailed against Joab, and against the captains of the host. And Joab and the captains of the host went out from the presence of the king, to number the people of Israel.

  • 2 Sam 24:9-10
    2 verses
    75%

    9And Joab gave up the sum of the numbering of the people unto the king: and there were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men that drew the sword; and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand men.

    10And David's heart smote him after that he had numbered the people. And David said unto Jehovah, I have sinned greatly in that which I have done: but now, O Jehovah, put away, I beseech thee, the iniquity of thy servant; for I have done very foolishly.

  • 1 Chr 27:23-24
    2 verses
    73%

    23But David took not the number of them from twenty years old and under, because Jehovah had said he would increase Israel like to the stars of heaven.

    24Joab the son of Zeruiah began to number, but finished not; and there came wrath for this upon Israel; neither was the number put into the account in the chronicles of king David.

  • 2 Sam 18:1-4
    4 verses
    72%

    1And David numbered the people that were with him, and set captains of thousands and captains of hundreds over them.

    2And David sent forth the people, a third part under the hand of Joab, and a third part under the hand of Abishai the son of Zeruiah, Joab's brother, and a third part under the hand of Ittai the Gittite. And the king said unto the people, I will surely go forth with you myself also.

    3But the people said, Thou shalt not go forth: for if we flee away, they will not care for us; neither if half of us die, will they care for us: but thou art worth ten thousand of us; therefore now it is better that thou be ready to succor us out of the city.

    4And the king said unto them, What seemeth you best I will do. And the king stood by the gate-side, and all the people went out by hundreds and by thousands.

  • 1 Kgs 1:20
    71%

    20And thou, my lord the king, the eyes of all Israel are upon thee, that thou shouldest tell them who shall sit on the throne of my lord the king after him.

  • 2 Sam 14:19-22
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    71%

    19And the king said, Is the hand of Joab with thee in all this? And the woman answered and said, As thy soul liveth, my lord the king, none can turn to the right hand or to the left from aught that my lord the king hath spoken; for thy servant Joab, he bade me, and he put all these words in the mouth of thy handmaid;

    20to change the face of the matter hath thy servant Joab done this thing: and my lord is wise, according to the wisdom of an angel of God, to know all things that are in the earth.

    21And the king said unto Joab, Behold now, I have done this thing: go therefore, bring the young man Absalom back.

    22And Joab fell to the ground on his face, and did obeisance, and blessed the king: and Joab said, To-day thy servant knoweth that I have found favor in thy sight, my lord, O king, in that the king hath performed the request of his servant.

  • 2 Sam 11:25
    70%

    25Then David said unto the messenger, Thus shalt thou say unto Joab, Let not this thing displease thee, for the sword devoureth one as well as another; make thy battle more strong against the city, and overthrow it: and encourage thou him.

  • 1 Kgs 3:8
    70%

    8And thy servant is in the midst of thy people which thou hast chosen, a great people, that cannot be numbered nor counted for multitude.

  • 2 Sam 3:24
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    24Then Joab came to the king, and said, What hast thou done? behold, Abner came unto thee; why is it that thou hast sent him away, and he is quite gone?

  • 2 Sam 3:36
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    36And all the people took notice of it, and it pleased them; as whatsoever the king did pleased all the people.

  • 2 Sam 3:29
    69%

    29let it fall upon the head of Joab, and upon all his father's house; and let there not fail from the house of Joab one that hath an issue, or that is a leper, or that leaneth on a staff, or that falleth by the sword, or that lacketh bread.

  • Deut 1:10-11
    2 verses
    69%

    10Jehovah your God hath multiplied you, and, behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.

    11Jehovah, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times as many as ye are, and bless you, as he hath promised you!

  • 2 Sam 14:1
    69%

    1Now Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived that the king's heart was toward Absalom.

  • 1 Chr 12:23
    69%

    23And these are the numbers of the heads of them that were armed for war, who came to David to Hebron, to turn the kingdom of Saul to him, according to the word of Jehovah.

  • 1 Chr 21:17
    68%

    17And David said unto God, Is it not I that commanded the people to be numbered? even I it is that have sinned and done very wickedly; but these sheep, what have they done? let thy hand, I pray thee, O Jehovah my God, be against me, and against my father's house; but not against thy people, that they should be plagued.

  • 1 Kgs 2:31-32
    2 verses
    68%

    31And the king said unto him, Do as he hath said, and fall upon him, and bury him; that thou mayest take away the blood, which Joab shed without cause, from me and from my father's house.

    32And Jehovah will return his blood upon his own head, because he fell upon two men more righteous and better than he, and slew them with the sword, and my father David knew it not, [to wit], Abner the son of Ner, captain of the host of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the host of Judah.

  • 1 Chr 19:8
    68%

    8And when David heard of it, he sent Joab, and all the host of the mighty men.

  • 1 Chr 27:34
    68%

    34and after Ahithophel was Jehoiada the son of Benaiah, and Abiathar: and the captain of the king's host was Joab.

  • 2 Sam 19:13
    68%

    13And say ye to Amasa, Art thou not my bone and my flesh? God do so to me, and more also, if thou be not captain of the host before me continually in the room of Joab.

  • 1 Kgs 2:4-5
    2 verses
    68%

    4That Jehovah may establish his word which he spake concerning me, saying, If thy children take heed to their way, to walk before me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul, there shall not fail thee (said he) a man on the throne of Israel.

    5Moreover thou knowest also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did unto me, even what he did to the two captains of the hosts of Israel, unto Abner the son of Ner, and unto Amasa the son of Jether, whom he slew, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war upon his girdle that was about his loins, and in his shoes that were on his feet.

  • 2 Chr 2:17
    68%

    17And Solomon numbered all the sojourners that were in the land of Israel, after the numbering wherewith David his father had numbered them; and they were found a hundred and fifty thousand and three thousand and six hundred.

  • 2 Sam 11:7
    68%

    7And when Uriah was come unto him, David asked of him how Joab did, and how the people fared, and how the war prospered.

  • 2 Sam 20:20
    68%

    20And Joab answered and said, Far be it, far be it from me, that I should swallow up or destroy.

  • 2 Chr 1:9
    68%

    9Now, O Jehovah God, let thy promise unto David my father be established; for thou hast made me king over a people like the dust of the earth in multitude.

  • 1 Kgs 1:32
    68%

    32And king David said, Call to me Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada. And they came before the king.

  • 2 Sam 3:18
    68%

    18now then do it; for Jehovah hath spoken of David, saying, By the hand of my servant David I will save my people Israel out of the hand of the Philistines, and out of the hand of all their enemies.

  • 2 Sam 10:7
    68%

    7And when David heard of it, he sent Joab, and all the host of the mighty men.

  • 2 Sam 3:9
    68%

    9God do so to Abner, and more also, if, as Jehovah hath sworn to David, I do not even so to him;

  • 1 Sam 11:8
    68%

    8And he numbered them in Bezek; and the children of Israel were three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty thousand.

  • 1 Sam 15:4
    67%

    4And Saul summoned the people, and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah.

  • 1 Kgs 1:36
    67%

    36And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada answered the king, and said, Amen: Jehovah, the God of my lord the king, say so [too] .

  • 2 Sam 24:12
    67%

    12Go and speak unto David, Thus saith Jehovah, I offer thee three things: choose thee one of them, that I may do it unto thee.