1 Chronicles 21:6 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

⁶ But Levi and Benjamin counted he not among them: for the king's word was abominable to Joab.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ But Levi and Benjamin counted he not among them: for the king's word was abominable to Joab.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ But Levi and Benjamin he did not include among them, for the king's order was detestable to Joab.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ But Levi and Benjamin counted he not among them; for the king’s word was abominable to Joab.

Common English Bible

⁶ He didn’t include Levi and Benjamin among them, because Joab disagreed with the king’s order.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ But Levi and Benjamin he did not number. For Joab executed the orders of the king unwillingly.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁶ But Levi and Benjamin he did not number: for Joab unwillingly executed the king's orders.

1 Chronicles 21:6 Cross References

2 Samuel 3:27

And when Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside into the midst of the gate to speak with him quietly, and smote him there in the belly, that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.

1 Chronicles 21:7

And God was displeased with this thing; therefore he smote Israel.

1 Chronicles 27:24

Joab the son of Zeruiah began to number, but finished not; and there came wrath for this upon Israel; neither was the number put into the account in the chronicles of king David;