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?
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Bible References
The lord
1 Chronicles 19:13
Be strong! Let us strengthen ourselves on behalf of our people and on behalf of the cities of our God. And may Yahweh do [what is] good in his eyes."
Psalm 115:14
May Yahweh give you increase, you and your children.
Proverbs 14:28
In the multitude of people is the glory of the king, but without a population, a prince [is] ruined.
Isaiah 26:15
You have added to the nation, Yahweh. You have added to the nation; you are honored. You have extended all [the] ends of [the] land.
Isaiah 48:19
And your offspring would have been like the sand, and the descendants of your {body} like its grains. It would not be cut off, and its name would not be destroyed from my presence."
Why will
Genesis 20:9
And Abimelech called for Abraham and said to him, "What have you done to us? And how have I sinned against you that you brought upon me and upon my kingdom a great sin? You have done things to me that should not be done."
Exodus 32:21
And Moses said to Aaron, "What did this people do to you that you brought on them [such] a great sin?"
Numbers 32:9
When they went up to the valley of Eshcol and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the {Israelites} so that they did not come to the land that Yahweh gave to them.
1 Samuel 2:24
No, my sons, the report [is] not good that I am hearing the people of Yahweh spreading.
1 Kings 14:16
He will give up Israel because of the sin of Jeroboam which he sinned and which he caused Israel to sin."
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2 Samuel 24:3
Then Joab said to the king, "May Yahweh your God increase the people a hundred times {what they are} as the eyes of my lord the king are seeing. But my lord the king, why does he desire this thing?"