1 Chronicles 21:3

A Conservative Version

And Joab said, LORD make his people a hundred times as many as they are. But, my lord the king, are they not all my lord's servants? Why does my lord require this thing? Why will he be a cause of guilt to Israel?

Cross References

Deuteronomy 1:11

LORD, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times as many as ye are, and bless you, as he has promised you!

Isaiah 48:19

Thy seed also would have been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like the grains of it. His name would not be cut off nor destroyed from before me.

Isaiah 26:15

Thou have increased the nation, O LORD, thou have increased the nation. Thou are glorified. Thou have enlarged all the borders of the land.

Proverbs 14:28

In the multitude of people is the king's glory, but in the want of people is the destruction of the prince.

Psalm 115:14

LORD increase you more and more, you and your sons.

1 Chronicles 19:13

Be of good courage, and let us act the man for our people, and for the cities of our God. And LORD do that which seems good to him.

1 Kings 14:16

And he will give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, which he has sinned, and with which he has made Israel to sin.

1 Samuel 2:24

No, my sons, for it is no good report that I hear. Ye make LORD's people to transgress.

Exodus 32:21

And Moses said to Aaron, What did this people do to thee, that thou have brought a great sin upon them?

Genesis 20:9

Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said to him, What have thou done to us? And in what have I sinned against thee, that thou have brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? Thou have done deeds to me that ought not to be done.

1 Chronicles 21:4

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

Exodus 30:12

When thou take the sum of the sons of Israel, according to those who are numbered of them, then they shall give every man a ransom for his soul to LORD when thou number them, that there be no plague among them when thou number them

Joshua 22:15

And they came to the sons of Reuben, and to the sons of Gad, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh, to the land of Gilead, and they spoke with them, saying,

2 Kings 12:7

Then king Joash called for Jehoiada the priest, and for the [other] priests, and said to them, Why do ye not repair the broken parts of the house? Now therefore take no [more] money from your acquaintance, but deliver it for the br