2 Samuel 24:4

Authorized King James Version (1611)

Notwithstanding 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.

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  • Exod 1:17 : 17 But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men children alive.
  • 1 Chr 21:4 : 4 Nevertheless the king's word prevailed against Joab. Wherefore Joab departed, and went throughout all Israel, and came to Jerusalem.
  • Eccl 8:4 : 4 Where the word of a king [is, there is] power: and who may say unto him, What doest thou?
  • Acts 5:29 : 29 Then Peter and the [other] apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.

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  • 1 Chr 21:1-7
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    86%

    1 ¶ And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.

    2 And David said to Joab and to the rulers of the people, Go, number Israel from Beersheba even to Dan; and bring the number of them to me, that I may know [it].

    3 And Joab answered, The LORD make his people an hundred times so many more as they [be]: but, my lord the king, [are] they not all my lord's servants? why then doth my lord require this thing? why will he be a cause of trespass to Israel?

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

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

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

    7 ¶ And God was displeased with this thing; therefore he smote Israel.

  • 2 Sam 24:1-3
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    84%

    1 ¶ And again the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he moved David against them to say, Go, number Israel and Judah.

    2 For the king said to Joab the captain of the host, which [was] with him, Go now through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan even to Beersheba, and number ye the people, that I may know the number of the people.

    3 And Joab said unto the king, Now the LORD thy God add unto the people, how many soever they be, an hundredfold, and that the eyes of my lord the king may see [it]: but why doth my lord the king delight in this thing?

  • 1 Chr 27:23-24
    2 verses
    79%

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

    24 Joab the son of Zeruiah began to number, but he finished not, because there fell wrath for it against Israel; neither was the number put in the account of the chronicles of king David.

  • 2 Sam 24:9-10
    2 verses
    76%

    9 And Joab gave up the sum of the number 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.

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

  • 2 Sam 18:1-2
    2 verses
    76%

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

    2 And David sent forth a third part of the people 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.

  • 2 Kgs 3:6
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    6 ¶ And king Jehoram went out of Samaria the same time, and numbered all Israel.

  • 1 Chr 27:1
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    1 ¶ Now the children of Israel after their number, [to wit], the chief fathers and captains of thousands and hundreds, and their officers that served the king in any matter of the courses, which came in and went out month by month throughout all the months of the year, of every course [were] twenty and four thousand.

  • 1 Chr 19:8
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    8 And when David heard [of it], he sent Joab, and all the host of the mighty men.

  • 1 Chr 27:34
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    34 And after Ahithophel [was] Jehoiada the son of Benaiah, and Abiathar: and the general of the king's army [was] Joab.

  • 1 Kgs 20:24
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    24 And do this thing, Take the kings away, every man out of his place, and put captains in their rooms:

  • Num 2:23
    71%

    23 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, [were] thirty and five thousand and four hundred.

  • 2 Sam 10:7
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    7 And when David heard of [it], he sent Joab, and all the host of the mighty men.

  • 2 Chr 24:24
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    24 For the army of the Syrians came with a small company of men, and the LORD delivered a very great host into their hand, because they had forsaken the LORD God of their fathers. So they executed judgment against Joash.

  • 2 Sam 2:28
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    28 So Joab blew a trumpet, and all the people stood still, and pursued after Israel no more, neither fought they any more.

  • Judg 20:2
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    2 And the chief of all the people, [even] of all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God, four hundred thousand footmen that drew sword.

  • 1 Kgs 11:15
    70%

    15 For it came to pass, when David was in Edom, and Joab the captain of the host was gone up to bury the slain, after he had smitten every male in Edom;

  • 2 Sam 18:4
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    4 And the king said unto them, What seemeth you best I will do. And the king stood by the gate side, and all the people came out by hundreds and by thousands.

  • 1 Chr 18:15
    70%

    15 And Joab the son of Zeruiah [was] over the host; and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud, recorder.

  • 2 Sam 11:1
    70%

    1 ¶ And it came to pass, after the year was expired, at the time when kings go forth [to battle], that David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the children of Ammon, and besieged Rabbah. But David tarried still at Jerusalem.

  • 1 Chr 12:23
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    23 ¶ And these [are] the numbers of the bands [that were] ready armed to the war, [and] came to David to Hebron, to turn the kingdom of Saul to him, according to the word of the LORD.

  • 2 Chr 18:5
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    5 Therefore the king of Israel gathered together of prophets four hundred men, and said unto them, Shall we go to Ramothgilead to battle, or shall I forbear? And they said, Go up; for God will deliver [it] into the king's hand.

  • 1 Chr 19:14
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    14 So Joab and the people that [were] with him drew nigh before the Syrians unto the battle; and they fled before him.

  • 2 Sam 3:24
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    24 Then 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 Chr 25:7
    70%

    7 But there came a man of God to him, saying, O king, let not the army of Israel go with thee; for the LORD [is] not with Israel, [to wit, with] all the children of Ephraim.

  • 2 Sam 11:18
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    18 Then Joab sent and told David all the things concerning the war;

  • 1 Kgs 22:6
    70%

    6 Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said unto them, Shall I go against Ramothgilead to battle, or shall I forbear? And they said, Go up; for the Lord shall deliver [it] into the hand of the king.

  • 2 Sam 17:24
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    24 Then David came to Mahanaim. And Absalom passed over Jordan, he and all the men of Israel with him.

  • 1 Chr 20:1
    70%

    1 ¶ And it came to pass, that after the year was expired, at the time that kings go out [to battle], Joab led forth the power of the army, and wasted the country of the children of Ammon, and came and besieged Rabbah. But David tarried at Jerusalem. And Joab smote Rabbah, and destroyed it.

  • Num 26:4
    69%

    4 [Take the sum of the people], from twenty years old and upward; as the LORD commanded Moses and the children of Israel, which went forth out of the land of Egypt.

  • 2 Sam 20:23
    69%

    23 ¶ Now Joab [was] over all the host of Israel: and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada [was] over the Cherethites and over the Pelethites:

  • 1 Sam 15:4
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    4 And Saul gathered the people together, and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah.

  • 1 Kgs 20:15
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    15 Then he numbered the young men of the princes of the provinces, and they were two hundred and thirty two: and after them he numbered all the people, [even] all the children of Israel, [being] seven thousand.

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    3 From twenty years old and upward, all that are able to go forth to war in Israel: thou and Aaron shall number them by their armies.

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    24 And when they came to the camp of Israel, the Israelites rose up and smote the Moabites, so that they fled before them: but they went forward smiting the Moabites, even in [their] country.

  • 1 Chr 23:4
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    4 Of which, twenty and four thousand [were] to set forward the work of the house of the LORD; and six thousand [were] officers and judges:

  • 2 Sam 14:19
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    19 And the king said, [Is not] 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 ought that my lord the king hath spoken: for thy servant Joab, he bade me, and he put all these words in the mouth of thine handmaid:

  • 1 Chr 19:10
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    10 Now when Joab saw that the battle was set against him before and behind, he chose out of all the choice of Israel, and put [them] in array against the Syrians.

  • 2 Sam 18:16
    69%

    16 And Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing after Israel: for Joab held back the people.

  • 1 Chr 13:1
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    1 ¶ And David consulted with the captains of thousands and hundreds, [and] with every leader.

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