3And 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?
Linguistic Insight
Tap any underlined word in the verse to see its original meaning.
Cross-References
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
(The LORD God of your fathers make you a thousand times so many more as ye are, and bless you, as he hath promised you!)
Be of good courage, and let us behave ourselves valiantly for our people, and for the cities of our God: and let the LORD do that which is good in his sight.
And he shall give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, who did sin, and who made Israel to sin.
And Moses said unto Aaron, What did this people unto thee, that thou hast brought so great a sin upon them?
In the multitude of people is the king's honour: but in the want of people is the destruction of the prince.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-6)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 provocation to God, because he did it in the pride of his heart; and there is no sin that has in it more of contradiction and therefore more of offence to God than pride. The sin was David’s; he alon…
My Notes
Notes are saved on this device.