1 Chronicles 21:6

World English Bible (2000)

But he didn't count Levi and Benjamin 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 numbered among them. 48 For Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, 49 "Only the tribe of Levi you shall not number, neither shall you take a census of them among the children of Israel;
  • 2 Sam 3:27 : 27 When Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside into the midst of the gate to speak with him quietly, and struck him there in the body, so that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.
  • 2 Sam 11:15-21 : 15 He wrote in the letter, saying, "Send Uriah to the forefront of the hottest battle, and retreat from him, that he may be struck, and die." 16 It happened, when Joab kept watch on the city, that he assigned Uriah to the place where he knew that valiant men were. 17 The men of the city went out, and fought with Joab. Some of the people fell, even 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 he commanded the messenger, saying, "When you have finished telling all the things concerning the war to the king, 20 it shall be that, if the king's wrath arise, and he asks you, 'Why did you go so near to the city to fight? Didn't you know that they would shoot from the wall? 21 who struck Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? Didn't a woman cast an upper millstone on him from the wall, so that he died at Thebez? Why did you go so near the wall?' then you shall say, 'Your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.'"
  • 2 Sam 20:9-9 : 9 Joab said to Amasa, "Is it well with you, my brother?" Joab took Amasa by the beard with his right hand to kiss him. 10 But Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab's hand. So he struck him with it in the body, and shed out his bowels to the ground, and didn't strike him again; and he died. 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 didn't finish; and there came wrath for this on Israel; neither was the number put into the account in the chronicles of king David.

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

  • 1 Chr 21:2-5
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    76%

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

    3 Joab said, "May Yahweh make his people a hundred times as many as they are. But, my lord the king, aren't they all my lord's servants? Why does my lord require this thing? Why will he be a cause of guilt to Israel?"

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

    5 Joab gave up the sum of the numbering of the people to David. All those of Israel were one million one hundred thousand men who drew sword: and in Judah were four hundred seventy thousand men who drew sword.

  • 1 Chr 27:23-24
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    23 But David didn't take the number of them from twenty years old and under, because Yahweh had said he would increase Israel like the stars of the sky.

    24 Joab the son of Zeruiah began to number, but didn't finish; and there came wrath for this on Israel; neither was the number put into the account in the chronicles of king David.

  • 2 Sam 24:2-4
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    2 The king said to Joab the captain of the army, who was with him, "Now go back and forth through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan even to Beersheba, and number the people, that I may know the sum of the people."

    3 Joab said to the king, "Now may Yahweh your God add to the people, however many they may be, one hundred times; and may the eyes of my lord the king see it. But why does my lord the king delight in this thing?"

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

  • Num 1:47
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    47 But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers 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 Yahweh commanded Moses.

  • Judg 20:13-15
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    72%

    13 Now therefore deliver up the men, the base fellows, who are in Gibeah, that we may put them to death, and put away evil from Israel." But Benjamin would not listen to the voice of their brothers the children of Israel.

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

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

  • 2 Sam 24:9
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    9 Joab gave up the sum of the numbering 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 men.

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

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

  • Neh 11:36
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    36 Of the Levites, certain divisions in Judah [were joined] to Benjamin.

  • Num 1:49
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    49 "Only the tribe of Levi you shall not number, neither shall you take a census of them among the children of Israel;

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

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

  • Num 1:36-37
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    36 Of the children of Benjamin, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war;

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

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

    22 "The tribe of Benjamin: and the prince of the children of Benjamin shall be Abidan the son of Gideoni.

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

  • Judg 20:17
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    17 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 The children of Israel grieved for Benjamin their brother, and said, "There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day.

  • Judg 20:25
    69%

    25 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 took no heed to the sword that was in Joab's hand. So he struck him with it in the body, and shed out his bowels to the ground, and didn't strike him again; and he died. Joab and Abishai his brother pursued after Sheba the son of Bichri.

    11 There stood by him one of Joab's young men, and said, "He who favors Joab, and he who is for David, let him follow Joab!"

  • 1 Chr 27:34
    69%

    34 and after Ahithophel was Jehoiada the son of Benaiah, and Abiathar: and the captain 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
    69%

    25 The children of Benjamin gathered themselves together after Abner, and became one band, and stood on the top of a hill.

  • 2 Sam 3:29-30
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    29 Let it fall on the head of Joab, and on all his father's house. 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
    69%

    41 These are the sons of Benjamin after their families; and those who were numbered of them were forty-five thousand six hundred.

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

  • 1 Kgs 2:31
    69%

    31 The king said to him, "Do as he has said, and fall on him, and bury him; that you may take away the blood, which Joab shed without cause, from me and from my father's house.

  • 1 Kgs 11:15
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    15 For it happened, when David was in Edom, and Joab the captain of the army was gone up to bury the slain, and had struck every male in Edom

  • 1 Kgs 1:19
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    19 He has slain cattle and fatlings 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 he hasn't called Solomon your servant.

  • 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 over the Pelethites;

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

  • 2 Sam 19:17
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    17 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 through the Jordan in the presence of the king.

  • 1 Chr 11:21
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    21 Of the three, he was more honorable than the two, and was made their captain: however he didn't attain to the [first] three.

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