1 Chronicles 21:4

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

Cross References

1 Chronicles 21:3

But Joab said, “May the Lord increase the number of his people a hundredfold! Are they not, my lord the king, all of them my lord’s servants? Why then should my lord require this? Why should he bring guilt on Israel?”

1 Chronicles 21:5

Joab gave the total count of the people to David. In all Israel there were one million one hundred thousand men who drew the sword, and in Judah four hundred seventy thousand who drew the sword.

Exodus 1:17

But the midwives feared God; they did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them, but they let the boys live.

Ecclesiastes 8:4

For the word of the king is powerful, and who can say to him, “What are you doing?”

Daniel 3:18

But if not, be it known to you, O king, that we will not serve your gods and we will not worship the golden statue that you have set up.”

Acts 5:29

But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than any human authority.