1 Chronicles 21:6
Now Joab did not number Levi and Benjamin, for the king’s edict disgusted him.
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- Num 1:47-49 : 47 The Exemption of the Levites But the Levites, according to the tribe of their fathers, were not numbered among them. 48 The LORD had said to Moses, 49 “Only the tribe of Levi you must not number or count with the other Israelites.
- 2 Sam 3:27 : 27 When Abner returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside at the gate as if to speak privately with him. Joab then stabbed him in the abdomen and killed him, avenging the shed blood of his brother Asahel.
- 2 Sam 11:15-21 : 15 In the letter he wrote:“Station Uriah at the front in the thick of the battle and then withdraw from him so he will be cut down and killed.” 16 So as Joab kept watch on the city, he stationed Uriah at the place where he knew the best enemy soldiers were. 17 When the men of the city came out and fought with Joab, some of David’s soldiers fell in battle. Uriah the Hittite also died. 18 Then Joab sent a full battle report to David. 19 He instructed the messenger as follows:“When you finish giving the battle report to the king, 20 if the king becomes angry and asks you,‘Why did you go so close to the city to fight? Didn’t you realize they would shoot from the wall? 21 Who struck down Abimelech the son of Jerub-Besheth? Didn’t a woman throw an upper millstone down on him from the wall so that he died in Thebez? Why did you go so close to the wall?’ just say to him,‘Your servant Uriah the Hittite is also dead.’”
- 2 Sam 20:9-9 : 9 Joab said to Amasa,“How are you, my brother?” With his right hand Joab took hold of Amasa’s beard as if to greet him with a kiss. 10 Amasa did not protect himself from the knife in Joab’s other hand, and Joab stabbed him in the abdomen, causing Amasa’s intestines to spill out on the ground. There was no need to stab him again; the first blow was fatal. Then Joab and his brother Abishai pursued Sheba son of Bicri.
- 1 Chr 27:24 : 24 Joab son of Zeruiah started to count the men but did not finish. God was angry with Israel because of this, so the number was not recorded in the scroll called The Annals of King David.
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7 God was also offended by it, so he attacked Israel.
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2 David told Joab and the leaders of the army,“Go, count the number of warriors from Beer Sheba to Dan. Then bring back a report to me so I may know how many we have.”
3 Joab replied,“May the LORD make his army a hundred times larger! My master, O king, do not all of them serve my master? Why does my master want to do this? Why bring judgment on Israel?”
4 But the king’s edict stood, despite Joab’s objections. So Joab left and traveled throughout Israel before returning to Jerusalem.
5 Joab reported to David the number of warriors. In all Israel there were 1,100,000 sword-wielding soldiers; Judah alone had 470,000 sword-wielding soldiers.
- 1 Chr 27:23-242 verses75%
23 David did not count the males twenty years old and under, for the LORD had promised to make Israel as numerous as the stars in the sky.
24 Joab son of Zeruiah started to count the men but did not finish. God was angry with Israel because of this, so the number was not recorded in the scroll called The Annals of King David.
- 2 Sam 24:2-43 verses75%
2 The king told Joab, the general in command of his army,“Go through all the tribes of Israel from Dan to Beer Sheba and muster the army, so I may know the size of the army.”
3 Joab replied to the king,“May the LORD your God make the army a hundred times larger right before the eyes of my lord the king! But why does my master the king want to do this?”
4 But the king’s edict stood, despite the objections of Joab and the leaders of the army. So Joab and the leaders of the army left the king’s presence in order to muster the Israelite army.
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47 The Exemption of the Levites But the Levites, according to the tribe of their fathers, were not numbered among them.
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33 But the Levites were not numbered among the other Israelites, as the LORD commanded Moses.
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13 Now, hand over the good-for-nothings in Gibeah so we can execute them and purge Israel of wickedness.” But the Benjaminites refused to listen to their Israelite brothers.
14 The Benjaminites came from their cities and assembled at Gibeah to make war against the Israelites.
15 That day the Benjaminites mustered from their cities twenty-six thousand sword-wielding soldiers, besides seven hundred well-trained soldiers from Gibeah.
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9 Joab reported the number of warriors to the king. In Israel there were 800,000 sword-wielding warriors, and in Judah there were 500,000 soldiers.
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30 Now Joab returned from chasing Abner and assembled all the people. Nineteen of David’s soldiers were missing, in addition to Asahel.
31 But David’s soldiers had slaughtered the Benjaminites and Abner’s men– in all, 360 men had died!
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36 Some of the Judean divisions of the Levites settled in Benjamin.
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49 “Only the tribe of Levi you must not number or count with the other Israelites.
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9 When they took roll call, they noticed none of the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead were there.
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29 Then Absalom sent a message to Joab asking him to send him to the king, but Joab was not willing to come to him. So he sent a second message to him, but he still was not willing to come.
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36 From the descendants of Benjamin: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name.
37 Those of them who were numbered from the tribe of Benjamin were 35,400.
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21 Those numbered in his division are 32,200.
22 Next will be the tribe of Benjamin. The leader of the people of Benjamin is Abidan son of Gideoni.
23 Those numbered in his division are 35,400.
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17 The men of Israel(not counting Benjamin) had mustered four hundred thousand sword-wielding soldiers, every one an experienced warrior.
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6 The Israelites regretted what had happened to their brother Benjamin. They said,“Today we cut off an entire tribe from Israel!
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25 The Benjaminites again attacked them from Gibeah and struck down eighteen thousand sword-wielding Israelite soldiers.
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10 Amasa did not protect himself from the knife in Joab’s other hand, and Joab stabbed him in the abdomen, causing Amasa’s intestines to spill out on the ground. There was no need to stab him again; the first blow was fatal. Then Joab and his brother Abishai pursued Sheba son of Bicri.
11 One of Joab’s soldiers who stood over Amasa said,“Whoever is for Joab and whoever is for David, follow Joab!”
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34 Ahithophel was succeeded by Jehoiada son of Benaiah and by Abiathar.Joab was the commanding general of the king’s army.
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21 Iddo son of Zechariah led the half-tribe of Manasseh in Gilead,Jaasiel son of Abner led Benjamin,
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9 from the descendants of Joab, Obadiah son of Jehiel, and with him 218 men;
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25 The Benjaminites formed their ranks behind Abner and were like a single army, standing at the top of a certain hill.
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29 May his blood whirl over the head of Joab and the entire house of his father! May the males of Joab’s house never cease to have someone with a running sore or a skin disease or one who works at the spindle or one who falls by the sword or one who lacks food!”
30 So Joab and his brother Abishai killed Abner, because he had killed their brother Asahel in Gibeon during the battle.
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41 These are the Benjaminites, according to their families, and according to those numbered of them, 45,600.
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20 Joab answered,“Get serious! I don’t want to swallow up or destroy anything!
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31 The king told him,“Do as he said! Strike him down and bury him. Take away from me and from my father’s family the guilt of Joab’s murderous, bloody deeds.
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15 During David’s campaign against Edom, Joab, the commander of the army, while on a mission to bury the dead, killed every male in Edom.
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19 He has sacrificed many cattle, steers, and sheep and has invited all the king’s sons, Abiathar the priest, and Joab, the commander of the army, but he has not invited your servant Solomon.
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23 Now Joab was the general in command of all the army of Israel. Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Kerethites and the Perethites.
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15 Then ten soldiers who were Joab’s armor bearers struck Absalom and finished him off.
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17 There were a thousand men from Benjamin with him, along with Ziba the servant of Saul’s household, and with him his fifteen sons and twenty servants. They hurriedly crossed the Jordan within sight of the king.
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21 From the three he was given double honor and he became their officer, even though he was not one of them.
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35 The LORD annihilated Benjamin before Israel; the Israelites struck down that day 25,100 sword-wielding Benjaminites.