4Nevertheless the king's word prevailed against Joab. Wherefore Joab departed, and went throughout all Israel, and came to Jerusalem.
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Where the word of a king is, there is power: and who may say unto him, What doest thou?
But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men children alive.
Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.
And Joab said unto the king, Now the LORD thy God add unto the people, how many soever they be, an hundredfold, and that the eyes of my lord the king may see it: but why doth my lord the king delight in this thing? …
But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up.
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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…
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