1 Chronicles 21:6

KJV1611 – Modern English

But he did not count Levi and Benjamin among them: for the king's word was detestable to Joab.

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  • Num 1:47-49 : 47 But the Levites, by their fathers' tribe, were not numbered among them. 48 For the LORD had spoken to Moses, saying, 49 Only you shall not number the tribe of Levi, nor take a census of them among the children of Israel;
  • 2 Sam 3:27 : 27 And when Abner returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside at the gate to speak with him quietly, and struck him there under the fifth rib, so that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.
  • 2 Sam 11:15-21 : 15 And he wrote in the letter, saying, Set Uriah in the forefront of the fiercest battle, and retreat from him, that he may be struck down and die. 16 So it happened, when Joab observed the city, that he assigned Uriah to a place where he knew there were valiant men. 17 Then the men of the city came out and fought with Joab. And some of the people of the servants of David fell; 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 you have finished telling the matters of the war to the king, 20 if it so happens that the king's wrath rises, and he says to you, Why did you approach so near to the city when you fought? Did you not know they would shoot from the wall? 21 Who struck Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? Was it not a woman who cast a piece of a millstone on him from the wall, so that he died in Thebez? Why did you go near the wall? Then you shall say, Your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.
  • 2 Sam 20:9-9 : 9 And Joab said to Amasa, Are you well, my brother? And Joab took Amasa by the beard with his right hand to kiss him. 10 But Amasa did not notice the sword in Joab’s hand, so Joab struck him in the stomach, spilling his intestines to the ground. He did not strike him again, and Amasa died. Joab and his brother Abishai then pursued Sheba the son of Bichri.
  • 1 Chr 27:24 : 24 Joab the son of Zeruiah started to count, but he did not finish, because wrath fell for it against Israel; neither was the number entered in the account of the chronicles of king David.

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

  • 1 Chr 21:2-5
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    2 And David said to Joab and to the leaders of the people, Go, count Israel from Beersheba to Dan; and bring the count to me, that I may know it.

    3 And Joab answered, May the LORD make his people a hundred times more than they are: but, my lord the king, are they not all my lord's servants? why then does my lord require this thing? why will he bring guilt upon Israel?

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

    5 And Joab gave the total of the people to David. And all Israel were a million one hundred thousand men who drew sword: and Judah was four hundred and seventy thousand men who drew sword.

  • 1 Chr 27:23-24
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    23 But David did not count those twenty years old and under, because the LORD had said he would increase Israel like the stars of the heavens.

    24 Joab the son of Zeruiah started to count, but he did not finish, because wrath fell for it against Israel; neither was the number entered in the account of the chronicles of king David.

  • 2 Sam 24:2-4
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    2 For the king said to Joab the captain of the army, who was with him, Go now through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan to Beersheba, and count the people, that I may know the number of the people.

    3 And Joab said to the king, Now the LORD your God add to the people, however many they may be, a hundredfold, and may the eyes of my lord the king see it: but why does my lord the king delight in this thing?

    4 Nevertheless, the king's word prevailed against Joab, and against the captains of the army. Therefore Joab and the captains of the army went out from the presence of the king, to count the people of Israel.

  • Num 1:47
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    47 But the Levites, by their fathers' tribe, were not numbered among them.

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

  • Judg 20:13-15
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    13 Now therefore deliver up the men, the worthless fellows, who are in Gibeah, that we may put them to death, and remove evil from Israel. But the children of Benjamin would not listen to their brothers, the children of Israel.

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

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

  • 2 Sam 24:9
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    9 And Joab gave the sum of the number of the people to the king: and there were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men who drew the sword; and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand.

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

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

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

  • Num 1:49
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    49 Only you shall not number the tribe of Levi, nor take a census of them among the children of Israel;

  • Judg 21:9
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    9 For the people were counted, and, behold, none of the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead were there.

  • 2 Sam 14:29
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    29 Therefore Absalom sent for Joab, to send 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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    36 From the children of Benjamin, by their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and above, all who were able to go to war;

    37 Those who were numbered from them, even from the tribe of Benjamin, were thirty-five thousand four hundred.

  • Num 2:21-23
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    21 His army, and those that were numbered of them, were thirty-two thousand and two hundred.

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

    23 His army, and those that were numbered of them, were thirty-five thousand and four hundred.

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

  • Judg 21:6
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    6 And the children of Israel felt sorry for Benjamin their brother, and said, Today one tribe is cut off from Israel.

  • Judg 20:25
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    25 And 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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    10 But Amasa did not notice the sword in Joab’s hand, so Joab struck him in the stomach, spilling his intestines to the ground. He did not strike him again, and Amasa died. Joab and his brother Abishai then pursued Sheba the son of Bichri.

    11 And one of Joab's men stood by Amasa and said, Whoever favors Joab and whoever is for David, let him follow Joab.

  • 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 Chr 27:21
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    21 Of 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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    9 Of 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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    25 And the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together behind Abner, and became one group, and stood on the top of a hill.

  • 2 Sam 3:29-30
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    29 Let 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 who has an issue, or who is a leper, or who leans on a staff, or who falls by the sword, or who lacks bread.

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

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

  • 2 Sam 20:20
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    20 Joab answered, Far be it from me, far be it from me, to swallow up or destroy.

  • 1 Kgs 2:31
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    31 And the king said unto him, Do as he has said, and strike him down and bury him, that you may 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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    15 For it came to pass, when David was in Edom, and Joab the captain of the army had gone up to bury the slain, after he had killed every male in Edom.

  • 1 Kgs 1:19
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    19 And he has sacrificed oxen and fat cattle and sheep in abundance, and has called all the sons of the king, and Abiathar the priest, and Joab the captain of the army; but Solomon your servant he has not called.

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

  • 2 Sam 18:15
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    15 And ten young men who carried Joab's armor surrounded and struck Absalom, and killed him.

  • 2 Sam 19:17
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    17 And 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 the Jordan before the king.

  • 1 Chr 11:21
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    21 Of the three, he was more honored than the two, for he was their captain. However, he did not attain to the first three.

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

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