2 Samuel 24:3

World English Bible (2000)

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?"

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  • Deut 1:11 : 11 Yahweh, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times as many as you are, and bless you, as he has promised you!
  • Ps 115:14 : 14 May Yahweh increase you more and more, you and your children.
  • Prov 14:28 : 28 In the multitude of people is the king's glory, but in the lack of people is the destruction of the prince.
  • Isa 60:5 : 5 Then you shall see and be radiant, and your heart shall thrill and be enlarged; because the abundance of the sea shall be turned to you, the wealth of the nations shall come to you.
  • 2 Sam 10:12 : 12 Be courageous, and let us be strong for our people, and for the cities of our God; and Yahweh do that which seems good to him."
  • 1 Chr 21:3-4 : 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.

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  • 1 Chr 21:2-6
    5 verses
    88%

    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.

    6 But he didn't count Levi and Benjamin among them; for the king's word was abominable to Joab.

  • 2 Sam 24:1-2
    2 verses
    81%

    1 Again the anger of Yahweh was kindled against Israel, and he moved David against them, saying, "Go, number Israel and Judah."

    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."

  • 2 Sam 24:4
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    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.

  • 2 Sam 24:9-10
    2 verses
    75%

    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.

    10 David's heart struck him after that he had numbered the people. David said to Yahweh, "I have sinned greatly in that which I have done. But now, Yahweh, put away, I beg you, the iniquity of your servant; for I have done very foolishly."

  • 1 Chr 27:23-24
    2 verses
    73%

    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 18:1-4
    4 verses
    72%

    1 David numbered the people who were with him, and set captains of thousands and captains of hundreds over them.

    2 David sent forth the people, a third part 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. The king said to the people, "I will surely go forth with you myself also."

    3 But the people said, "You shall not go forth; for if we flee away, they will not care for us; neither if half of us die, will they care for us. But you are worth ten thousand of us. Therefore now it is better that you are ready to help us out of the city."

    4 The king said to them, "I will do what seems best to you." The king stood beside the gate, and all the people went out by hundreds and by thousands.

  • 1 Kgs 1:20
    71%

    20 You, my lord the king, the eyes of all Israel are on you, that you should tell them who shall sit on the throne of my lord the king after him.

  • 2 Sam 14:19-22
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    71%

    19 The king said, "Is the hand of Joab with you in all this?" The woman answered, "As your soul lives, my lord the king, no one can turn to the right hand or to the left from anything that my lord the king has spoken; for your servant Joab, he urged me, and he put all these words in the mouth of your handmaid;

    20 to change the face of the matter has your servant Joab done this thing. My lord is wise, according to the wisdom of an angel of God, to know all things that are in the earth."

    21 The king said to Joab, "Behold now, I have done this thing. Go therefore, bring the young man Absalom back."

    22 Joab fell to the ground on his face, and did obeisance, and blessed the king. Joab said, "Today your servant knows that I have found favor in your sight, my lord, king, in that the king has performed the request of his servant."

  • 2 Sam 11:25
    70%

    25 Then David said to the messenger, "Thus you shall tell Joab, 'Don't let this thing displease you, for the sword devours one as well as another. Make your battle stronger against the city, and overthrow it.' Encourage him."

  • 1 Kgs 3:8
    70%

    8 Your servant is in the midst of your people which you have chosen, a great people, that can't be numbered nor counted for multitude.

  • 2 Sam 3:24
    70%

    24 Then Joab came to the king, and said, "What have you done? Behold, Abner came to you. Why is it that you have sent him away, and he is quite gone?

  • 2 Sam 3:36
    70%

    36 All the people took notice of it, and it pleased them; as whatever the king did pleased all the people.

  • 2 Sam 3:29
    69%

    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."

  • Deut 1:10-11
    2 verses
    69%

    10 Yahweh your God has multiplied you, and behold, you are this day as the stars of the sky for multitude.

    11 Yahweh, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times as many as you are, and bless you, as he has promised you!

  • 2 Sam 14:1
    69%

    1 Now Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived that the king's heart was toward Absalom.

  • 1 Chr 12:23
    69%

    23 These are the numbers of the heads of those who were armed for war, who came to David to Hebron, to turn the kingdom of Saul to him, according to the word of Yahweh.

  • 1 Chr 21:17
    68%

    17 David said to God, "Isn't it I who commanded the people to be numbered? It is even I who have sinned and done very wickedly; but these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand, O Yahweh my God, be against me, and against my father's house; but not against your people, that they should be plagued."

  • 1 Kgs 2:31-32
    2 verses
    68%

    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.

    32 Yahweh will return his blood on his own head, because he fell on two men more righteous and better than he, and killed them with the sword, and my father David didn't know it: Abner the son of Ner, captain of the army of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the army of Judah.

  • 1 Chr 19:8
    68%

    8 When David heard of it, he sent Joab, and all the army of the mighty men.

  • 1 Chr 27:34
    68%

    34 and after Ahithophel was Jehoiada the son of Benaiah, and Abiathar: and the captain of the king's army was Joab.

  • 2 Sam 19:13
    68%

    13 Say to Amasa, 'Aren't you my bone and my flesh? God do so to me, and more also, if you aren't captain of the army before me continually in the room of Joab.'"

  • 1 Kgs 2:4-5
    2 verses
    68%

    4 That Yahweh may establish his word which he spoke concerning me, saying, 'If your children take heed to their way, to walk before me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul, there shall not fail you,' he said, 'a man on the throne of Israel.'

    5 "Moreover you know also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, even what he did to the two captains of the armies of Israel, to Abner the son of Ner, and to Amasa the son of Jether, whom he killed, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war on his sash that was about his waist, and in his shoes that were on his feet.

  • 2 Chr 2:17
    68%

    17 Solomon numbered all the foreigners who were in the land of Israel, after the numbering with which David his father had numbered them; and they were found one hundred fifty-three thousand six hundred.

  • 2 Sam 11:7
    68%

    7 When Uriah was come to him, David asked of him how Joab did, and how the people fared, and how the war prospered.

  • 2 Sam 20:20
    68%

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

  • 2 Chr 1:9
    68%

    9 Now, Yahweh God, let your promise to David my father be established; for you have made me king over a people like the dust of the earth in multitude.

  • 1 Kgs 1:32
    68%

    32 King David said, "Call to me Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada." They came before the king.

  • 2 Sam 3:18
    68%

    18 Now then do it; for Yahweh has spoken of David, saying, 'By the hand of my servant David, I will save my people Israel out of the hand of the Philistines, and out of the hand of all their enemies.'"

  • 2 Sam 10:7
    68%

    7 When David heard of it, he sent Joab, and all the army of the mighty men.

  • 2 Sam 3:9
    68%

    9 God do so to Abner, and more also, if, as Yahweh has sworn to David, I don't do even so to him;

  • 1 Sam 11:8
    68%

    8 He numbered them in Bezek; and the children of Israel were three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty thousand.

  • 1 Sam 15:4
    67%

    4 Saul summoned the people, and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah.

  • 1 Kgs 1:36
    67%

    36 Benaiah the son of Jehoiada answered the king, and said, "Amen. May Yahweh, the God of my lord the king, say so.

  • 2 Sam 24:12
    67%

    12 "Go and speak to David, 'Thus says Yahweh, "I offer you three things. Choose one of them, that I may do it to you."'"