2 Samuel 24:3

Matthew's Bible 1537

And Ioab sayde vnto the kynge: I beseche that the Lorde thy God make the people as many mo as they be: ye & an hundred tymes so many mo, and that the eyes of my Lorde the Kynge maie se them. But howe it is that my Lorde the Kyng hath a lust in this thing?

Cross References

Deuteronomy 1:11

(the Lorde God of youre fathers make you a thousande tymes so many moo as ye are, & blesse you as he hath promysed you)

Psalm 115:14

The Lorde encrease you more and more: you, and your children.

Isaiah 60:5

When thou seyst this, thou shalt maruel exceadingly, and thine hert shal be opened: when the power of the sea shalbe conuerted vnto the (that is) when the strength of the Gentiles shall come vnto the.

Proverbs 14:28

The increase and prosperite of the commens is the Kynges honoure, but the decaye of the people is the confusion of the Prince.

2 Samuel 10:12

quyte the lyke a man, and let vs fyght lustely for oure people, & for the cytyes of our God. And the Lorde do what semyth best in hys eyes.

2 Samuel 24:4

Notwithstandinge the Kynges wordes preuayled agaynst Ioab and agaynst all the captaynes of the hoste. Then Ioab and the captaynes of the hoste went oute from the kynge, to vewe the people of Israell,