2 Samuel 24:4

Tree of Life Version

Nevertheless, the king’s command to Joab and the army generals remained firm. So Joab and the army generals went out from the king’s presence to number the people of Israel.

Cross References

2 Samuel 24:3

But Joab said to the king, “May Adonai your God add to the people a hundred times as many as they are, while the eyes of my lord the king looks on! But why does my lord the king desire such a thing?”

2 Samuel 24:5

They crossed over the Jordan and camped in Aroer, on the right side of the town that is in the middle of the valley of Gad, and toward Jazer.

1 Chronicles 21:4

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

Exodus 1:17

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

Exodus 30:12

“When you tally the sum of Bnei-Yisrael by numbering them, then every man must pay a ransom for his soul to Adonai when you count them, so that no plague will fall on them.

Ecclesiastes 8:4

Since the word of a king has authority, who can say to him, ‘What are you doing?’

Acts 5:29

Peter and the emissaries replied, “We must obey God rather than men.