1 Chronicles 21:3

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

But Joab answered, “May the Lord make his nation 100 times as large! Sir, all the Israelites are your servants. Why do you want to do this thing, my lord and king? You will make all the Israelites guilty of sin!”

Cross References

Deuteronomy 1:11

May the Lord, the God of your ancestors, give you 1000 times more people than you are now! May he bless you as he promised.

Isaiah 48:19

If you had obeyed me, you would have had as many children as there are grains of sand. And they would always have been mine and would never have been destroyed.”

Isaiah 26:15

Lord, you have helped the nation you love. You made our nation grow and brought honor to yourself.

Proverbs 14:28

Kings of large nations have great honor. Rulers without a country have nothing.

Psalm 115:14

May the Lord give more and more to you and to your children.

1 Chronicles 19:13

Let’s be brave and strong while we fight for our people and for the cities of our God! May the Lord do what he thinks is right.”

1 Kings 14:16

He will let the Israelites be defeated because Jeroboam sinned, and then he made the Israelites sin.”

1 Samuel 2:24

Sons, stop that! The Lord’s people are saying bad things about you.

Exodus 32:21

Moses said to Aaron, “What did these people do to you that would make you do this? Why did you lead them to do such a terrible sin?”

Genesis 20:9

Then Abimelech called Abraham and said to him, “Why have you done this to us? What wrong did I do to you? Why did you lie and say that she was your sister? You brought great trouble to my kingdom. You should not have done this to me.

1 Chronicles 21:4

But King David was stubborn. Joab had to do what the king said. So Joab left and went through all the country of Israel counting the people. Then he came back to Jerusalem

Exodus 30:12

“Count the Israelites so that you will know how many people there are. Every time this is done, each man must make a payment for himself to the Lord so that nothing terrible will happen to the people.

Joshua 22:15

So these eleven men went to Gilead. They went to talk to the people of Reuben, Gad, and Manasseh. The eleven men said to them,

2 Kings 12:7

so King Joash called for Jehoiada the priest and the other priests. Joash said to them, “Why haven’t you repaired the Temple? Stop taking money from the people you serve. That money must be used to repair the Temple.”