1 Chronicles 21:3
And Joab answered, The LORD make his people an hundred times so many more as they be: but, my lord the king, are they not all my lord's servants? why then doth my lord require this thing? why will he be a cause of trespass to Israel?
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Numbering the people, one would think, was no bad thing. Why should not the shepherd know the number of his flock? But God sees not as man sees. It is plain it was wrong in David to do it, and a great…
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moe Cp. 1Ch 14:3, note.
are they not all my lord's servants? Joab foresees some disaster to the people, and asks why David should destroy his own.
why will he be a cause of guilt to Israel? Cp. Lev…
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