1 Chronicles 21:4 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

⁴ Nevertheless the king's word prevailed against Jo´ab. Wherefore Jo´ab departed, and went throughout all Israel, and came to Jerusalem.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ Nevertheless the king's word prevailed against Joab. Wherefore Joab departed, and went throughout all Israel, and came to Jerusalem.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ But the king's word prevailed against Joab. So Joab departed and went throughout all Israel and came to Jerusalem.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ Nevertheless the king’s word prevailed against Joab. Wherefore Joab departed, and went throughout all Israel, and came to Jerusalem.

Common English Bible

⁴ But the king overruled Joab, who left and traveled throughout all Israel. When he returned to Jerusalem,

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ But the word of the king prevailed instead. And Joab went away, and he traveled around, through all of Israel. And he returned to Jerusalem.

1 Chronicles 21:4 Cross References

1 Chronicles 21:3

And Jo´ab answered, The Lord make his people a 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?

1 Chronicles 21:5

And Jo´ab gave the sum of the number of the people unto David. And all they of Israel were a thousand thousand and a hundred thousand men that drew sword: and Judah was four hundred threescore and ten thousand men that drew sword.

Exodus 1:17

But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men children alive.

Ecclesiastes 8:4

Where the word of a king is, there is power: and who may say unto him, What doest thou?

Daniel 3:18

But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up.

Acts 5:29

Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.