1 Chronicles 21:3

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And 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?

The lord

Isaiah 48:19

Why will

1 Kings 14:16

General references

2 Samuel 24:3

Bible References

The lord

Be of good courage, and let us act the man for our people, and for the cities of our God. And LORD do that which seems good to him.

LORD increase you more and more, you and your sons.

In the multitude of people is the king's glory, but in the want of people is the destruction of the prince.

Thou have increased the nation, O LORD, thou have increased the nation. Thou are glorified. Thou have enlarged all the borders of the land.

Thy seed also would have been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like the grains of it. His name would not be cut off nor destroyed from before me.

Why will

Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said to him, What have thou done to us? And in what have I sinned against thee, that thou have brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? Thou have done deeds to me that ought not to be done.

And Moses said to Aaron, What did this people do to thee, that thou have brought a great sin upon them?

For when they went up to the valley of Eshcol, and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the sons of Israel, that they should not go into the land which LORD had given them.

No, my sons, for it is no good report that I hear. Ye make LORD's people to transgress.

And he will give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, which he has sinned, and with which he has made Israel to sin.

General references

And Joab said to the king, Now LORD thy 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?