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2 Samuel 24:4
Notwithstanding, the king’s word prevailed against Joab and against the captains of the army. Joab and the captains of the army went out from the presence of the king to count the people of Israel.

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2 Samuel 24:2
The king said to Joab the captain of the army, who was with him, “Now go back and forth through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan even to Beersheba, and count the people, that I may know the sum of the people.”

1 Chronicles 21:1
Satan stood up against Israel, and moved David to take a census of Israel.

1 Chronicles 21:2
David said to Joab and to the princes of the people, “Go, count Israel from Beersheba even to Dan; and bring me word, that I may know how many there are.”

1 Chronicles 21:3
Joab said, “May Yahweh make his people a hundred times as many as they are. But, my lord the king, aren’t they all my lord’s servants? Why does my lord require this thing? Why will he be a cause of guilt to Israel?”

1 Chronicles 21:4
Nevertheless the king’s word prevailed against Joab. Therefore Joab departed and went throughout all Israel, then came to Jerusalem.

1 Chronicles 21:5
Joab gave the sum of the census of the people to David. All those of Israel were one million one hundred thousand men who drew a sword; and in Judah were four hundred seventy thousand men who drew a sword.

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1 Chronicles 21:6
But he didn’t count Levi and Benjamin among them, for the king’s word was abominable to Joab.

1 Chronicles 27:23
But David didn’t take the number of them from twenty years old and under, because Yahweh had said he would increase Israel like the stars of the sky.

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1 Chronicles 27:24
Joab the son of Zeruiah began to take a census, but didn’t finish; and wrath came on Israel for this. The number wasn’t put into the account in the chronicles of king David.

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Exodus 12:33
The Egyptians were urgent with the people, to send them out of the land in haste, for they said, “We are all dead men.”

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Ecclesiastes 8:4
for the king’s word is supreme. Who can say to him, “What are you doing?”

Acts 5:29
But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.

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