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 behave ourselves bravely for our people, and for the cities of our God. And let Jehovah do what is good in His sight.

Jehovah shall add on to you, even on you and on your sons.

In the multitude of people is the king's honor, but in the lack of people is the ruin of the prince.

You have increased the nation, O Jehovah, You have increased the nation; You are glorified; You have extended all the ends of the land.

And your seed would have been like the sand, and the offspring of your bowels like its grain; his name would not have been cut off nor destroyed from before Me.

Why will

Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said to him, What have you done to us? In what have I offended you, that you have brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? You have done deeds to me that ought not to be done.

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

For when they went up into the valley of Eshcol and saw the land, they broke the hearts of the sons of Israel, so that they should not go into the land which Jehovah had given them.

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

And he shall give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, who sinned, and that he made Israel to sin.

General references

And Joab said to the king, And may Jehovah your God add to the people however many they be, a hundred times as many, and may the eyes of my lord the king see it. But why does my lord the king delight in this thing?