1 Chronicles 21:6

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

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

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  • Num 1:47-49 : 47 But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not mbered among them. 48 For the LORD had spoken unto Moses, saying, 49 Only thou shalt not mber the tribe of Levi, neither take the sum of them among the children of Israel:
  • 2 Sam 3:27 : 27 And when Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside in the gate to speak with him quietly, and smote him there under the fifth rib, that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.
  • 2 Sam 11:15-21 : 15 And he wrote in the letter, saying, Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retire ye from him, that he may be smitten, and die. 16 And it came to pass, when Joab observed the city, that he assigned Uriah unto a place where he knew that valiant men were. 17 And the men of the city went out, and fought with Joab: and there fell some of the people of the servants of David; and Uriah the Hittite died also. 18 Then Joab sent and told David all the things concerning the war; 19 And charged the messenger, saying, When thou hast made an end of telling the matters of the war unto the king, 20 And if so be that the king's wrath arise, and he say unto thee, Wherefore approached ye so nigh unto the city when ye did fight? knew ye not that they would shoot from the wall? 21 Who smote Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? did not a woman cast a piece of a millstone upon him from the wall, that he died in Thebez? why went ye nigh the wall? then say thou, Thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.
  • 2 Sam 20:9-9 : 9 And Joab said to Amasa, Art thou in health, my brother? And Joab took Amasa by the beard with the right hand to kiss him. 10 But Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab's hand: so he smote him therewith in the fifth rib, and shed out his bowels to the ground, and struck him not again; and he died. So Joab and Abishai his brother pursued after Sheba the son of Bichri.
  • 1 Chr 27:24 : 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.

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  • 1 Chr 21:7
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    7And God was displeased with this thing; therefore he smote Israel.

  • 1 Chr 21:2-5
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    2And David said to Joab and to the rulers of the people, Go, number Israel from Beer-sheba even to Dan; and bring the number of them to me, that I may know it.

    3And 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?

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

    5And 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.

  • 1 Chr 27:23-24
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    23But 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.

    24Joab 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 24:2-4
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    2For 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 Beer-sheba, and number ye the people, that I may know the number of the people.

    3And 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?

    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.

  • Num 1:47
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    47But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not mbered among them.

  • Num 2:33
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    33But the Levites were not mbered among the children of Israel; as the LORD commanded Moses.

  • Judg 20:13-15
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    13Now therefore deliver us the men, the children of Belial, which are in Gibeah, that we may put them to death, and put away evil from Israel. But the children of Benjamin would not hearken to the voice of their brethren the children of Israel:

    14But the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of the cities unto Gibeah, to go out to battle against the children of Israel.

    15And the children of Benjamin were numbered at that time out of the cities twenty and six thousand men that drew sword, beside the inhabitants of Gibeah, which were numbered seven hundred chosen men.

  • 2 Sam 24:9
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    9And 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.

  • 2 Sam 2:30-31
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    30And Joab returned from following Abner: and when he had gathered all the people together, there lacked of David's servants nineteen men and Asahel.

    31But the servants of David had smitten of Benjamin, and of Abner's men, so that three hundred and threescore men died.

  • Neh 11:36
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    36And of the Levites were divisions in Judah, and in Benjamin.

  • Num 1:49
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    49Only thou shalt not mber the tribe of Levi, neither take the sum of them among the children of Israel:

  • Judg 21:9
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    9For the people were numbered, and, behold, there were none of the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead there.

  • 2 Sam 14:29
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    29Therefore Absalom sent for Joab, to have sent him to the king; but he would not come to him: and when he sent again the second time, he would not come.

  • Num 1:36-37
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    36Of the children of Benjamin, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the mber of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;

    37Those that were mbered of them, even of the tribe of Benjamin, were thirty and five thousand and four hundred.

  • Num 2:21-23
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    21And his host, and those that were mbered of them, were thirty and two thousand and two hundred.

    22Then the tribe of Benjamin: and the captain of the sons of Benjamin shall be Abidan the son of Gideoni.

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

  • Judg 20:17
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    17And the men of Israel, beside Benjamin, were numbered four hundred thousand men that drew sword: all these were men of war.

  • Judg 21:6
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    6And the children of Israel repented them for Benjamin their brother, and said, There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day.

  • Judg 20:25
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    25And Benjamin went forth against them out of Gibeah the second day, and destroyed down to the ground of the children of Israel again eighteen thousand men; all these drew the sword.

  • 2 Sam 20:10-11
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    10But Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab's hand: so he smote him therewith in the fifth rib, and shed out his bowels to the ground, and struck him not again; and he died. So Joab and Abishai his brother pursued after Sheba the son of Bichri.

    11And one of Joab's men stood by him, and said, He that favoureth Joab, and he that is for David, let him go after Joab.

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

  • 1 Chr 27:21
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    21Of the half tribe of Manasseh in Gilead, Iddo the son of Zechariah: of Benjamin, Jaasiel the son of Abner:

  • Ezra 8:9
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    9Of the sons of Joab; Obadiah the son of Jehiel, and with him two hundred and eighteen males.

  • 2 Sam 2:25
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    25And the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together after Abner, and became one troop, and stood on the top of an hill.

  • 2 Sam 3:29-30
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    29Let it rest on the head of Joab, and on 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 on the sword, or that lacketh bread.

    30So Joab and Abishai his brother slew Abner, because he had slain their brother Asahel at Gibeon in the battle.

  • Num 26:41
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    41These are the sons of Benjamin after their families: and they that were mbered of them were forty and five thousand and six hundred.

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

  • 1 Kgs 2:31
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    31And the king said unto him, Do as he hath said, and fall upon him, and bury him; that thou mayest take away the innocent blood, which Joab shed, from me, and from the house of my father.

  • 1 Kgs 11:15
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    15For 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;

  • 1 Kgs 1:19
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    19And he hath slain oxen and fat cattle and sheep in abundance, and hath called all the sons of the king, and Abiathar the priest, and Joab the captain of the host: but Solomon thy servant hath he not called.

  • 2 Sam 20:23
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    23Now Joab was over all the host of Israel: and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and over the Pelethites:

  • 2 Sam 18:15
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    15And ten young men that bare Joab's armour compassed about and smote Absalom, and slew him.

  • 2 Sam 19:17
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    17And there were a thousand men of Benjamin with him, and Ziba the servant of the house of Saul, and his fifteen sons and his twenty servants with him; and they went over Jordan before the king.

  • 1 Chr 11:21
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    21Of the three, he was more honourable than the two; for he was their captain: howbeit he attained not to the first three.

  • Judg 20:35
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    35And the LORD smote Benjamin before Israel: and the children of Israel destroyed of the Benjamites that day twenty and five thousand and an hundred men: all these drew the sword.