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
Pluck up thine heart and let us play the men for our people's sake, and for the cities of our God, and the LORD to do what seemeth him best."
Psalm 115:14
The LORD shall increase you more and more, you and your children.
Proverbs 14:28
The increase and prosperity of the commons is the king's honour; but the decay of the people is the confusion of the prince.
Isaiah 26:15
Again, thou increasest the people, O LORD, thou increasest the people. Thou shalt be praised and magnified in all the ends of the world.
Isaiah 48:19
Thy seed shall be like as the sand in the sea, and the fruit of thy body, like the gravel stones thereof: Thy name shall not be rooted out, nor destroyed before me.
Why will
Genesis 20:9
And Abimelech called Abraham and said unto him, "What hast thou done unto us, and what have I offended thee, that thou shouldest bring on me and on my kingdom so great a sin? Thou hast done deeds unto me that ought not to be done."
Exodus 32:21
And then Moses said unto Aaron, "What did this people unto thee that thou hast brought so great a sin upon them?"
Numbers 32:9
And they went up even unto the river of Eshcol and saw the land, and discouraged the hearts of the children of Israel, that they should not go into the land which the LORD had given them.
1 Samuel 2:24
Oh, nay my sons: For it is no good report that I hear how that ye make the LORD's people to trespass.
1 Kings 14:16
And he will give Israel up, because of the sin of Jeroboam wherewith he did sin and made Israel sin thereto."
General references
2 Samuel 24:3
And Joab said unto the king, "I beseech that the LORD thy God make the people as many more as they be: yea and a hundred times so many more, and that the eyes of my lord the king may see them. But how is it that my lord the king hath a lust in this thing?"