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2 Samuel 24:4
But the king's order was stronger than Joab and the captains of the army. And Joab and the captains of the army went out from the king, to take the number of the children of Israel.

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2 Samuel 24:2
And the king said to Joab and the captains of the army, who were with him, Go now through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan as far as Beer-sheba, and have all the people numbered, so that I may be certain of the number of the people.

1 Chronicles 21:1
Now Satan, designing evil against Israel, put into David's mind the impulse to take the number of Israel.

1 Chronicles 21:2
And David said to Joab and the captains of the people, Now let all Israel, from Beer-sheba to Dan, be numbered; and give me word so that I may be certain of their number.

1 Chronicles 21:3
And Joab said, May the Lord make his people a hundred times more in number than they are; but, my lord king, are they not all my lord's servants? why would my lord have this done? why will he become a cause of sin to Israel?

1 Chronicles 21:4
But the king's word was stronger than Joab's. So Joab went out and went through all Israel and came to Jerusalem.

1 Chronicles 21:5
And Joab gave David the number of all the people; all the men of Israel, able to take up arms, were one million, one hundred thousand men; and those of Judah were four hundred and seventy thousand men, able to take up arms.

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1 Chronicles 21:6
But Levi and Benjamin were not numbered among them, for Joab was disgusted with the king's order.

1 Chronicles 27:23
But David did not take the number of those who were under twenty years old, for the Lord had said that he would make Israel like the stars of heaven in number.

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1 Chronicles 27:24
The numbering was started by Joab, the son of Zeruiah, but he did not go on to the end; and because of it, wrath came on Israel and the number was not recorded in the history of King David.

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Exodus 12:33
And the Egyptians were forcing the people on, to get them out of the land quickly; for they said, We are all dead men.

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Ecclesiastes 8:4
The word of a king has authority; and who may say to him, What is this you are doing?

Acts 5:29
But Peter and the Apostles, answering, said, We have to do the orders of God, not of man.

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