1 Chronicles 21:6
But he didn’t count Levi and Benjamin among them, for the king’s word was abominable to Joab.
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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.
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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.
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.
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.
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 21:7
God was displeased with this thing; therefore he struck Israel.
1 Chronicles 21:8
David said to God, “I have sinned greatly, in that I have done this thing. But now put away, I beg you, the iniquity of your servant, for I have done very foolishly.”
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.”
2 Samuel 24:3
Joab said to the king, “Now may Yahweh your God add to the people, however many they may be, one hundred times; and may the eyes of my lord the king see it. But why does my lord the king delight in this thing?”
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.
2 Samuel 24:5
They passed over the Jordan and encamped in Aroer, on the right side of the city that is in the middle of the valley of Gad, and to Jazer;
2 Samuel 24:6
then they came to Gilead and to the land of Tahtim Hodshi; and they came to Dan Jaan and around to Sidon,
2 Samuel 24:7
and came to the stronghold of Tyre, and to all the cities of the Hivites and of the Canaanites; and they went out to the south of Judah, at Beersheba.
2 Samuel 24:8
So when they had gone back and forth through all the land, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.
2 Samuel 24:9
Joab gave up the sum of the counting of the people to the king; and there were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men who drew the sword, and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand men.
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Numbers 1:47
But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not counted among them.
Numbers 1:48
For Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
Numbers 1:49
“Only the tribe of Levi you shall not count, neither shall you take a census of them among the children of Israel;
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2 Samuel 20:9
Joab said to Amasa, “Is it well with you, my brother?” Joab took Amasa by the beard with his right hand to kiss him.
2 Samuel 20:10
But Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab’s hand. So he struck him with it in the body and shed out his bowels to the ground, and didn’t strike him again; and he died. Joab and Abishai his brother pursued Sheba the son of Bichri.
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