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?
General references
Bible References
The lord
1 Chronicles 19:13
Be strong and let us show ourselves courageous for the sake of our people and for the cities of our God; and may the Lord do what is good in His sight.”
Psalm 115:14
May the Lord give you [great] increase,
You and your children.
May the Lord give you [great] increase,
You and your children.
Proverbs 14:28
In a multitude of people is a king’s glory,
But in a lack of people is a [pretentious] prince’s ruin.
In a multitude of people is a king’s glory,
But in a lack of people is a [pretentious] prince’s ruin.
Isaiah 26:15
You have increased the nation, O Lord;
You have increased the nation, You are glorified;
You have extended all the borders of the land.
You have increased the nation, O Lord;
You have increased the nation, You are glorified;
You have extended all the borders of the land.
Isaiah 48:19
“Your offspring would have been like the sand,
And your descendants [in number] like the grains of sand;
Their name would never be cut off or destroyed from My presence.”
“Your offspring would have been like the sand,
And your descendants [in number] like the grains of sand;
Their name would never be cut off or destroyed from My presence.”
Why will
Genesis 20:9
Then Abimelech called Abraham and said to him, “What have you done to us? And how have I offended you that you have brought on me and my kingdom a great sin? You have done to me what ought not to be done [to anyone].”
Exodus 32:21
Then Moses said to Aaron, “What did this people do to you, that you have brought so great a sin on them?”
Numbers 32:9
For when they went up to the Valley of Eshcol and saw the land, they discouraged the hearts of the Israelites so that they did not go into the land which the Lord had given them.
1 Samuel 2:24
No, my sons; for the report that I keep hearing from the passers-by among the Lord’s people is not good.
1 Kings 14:16
He will give up Israel because of the sins of Jeroboam which he has committed, and with which he has made Israel sin [by leading them into idolatry].”
General references
2 Samuel 24:3
But Joab said to the king, “May the Lord your God add to the people a hundred times as many as there are, and let the eyes of my lord the king see it; but why does my lord the king want to do this thing?”