1 Chronicles 21:6

Joab did not count the men from the tribes of Levi and Benjamin, because he was disgusted with what the king had commanded.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

But Levi and Benjamin counted he not among them: for the king’s word was abominable to Joab.

In Context

5and they reported to David that there were 1,100,000 men in Israel who could be in the army, and 470,000 in Judah.

7David’s command to count the people caused God to become angry, so he told David that he had decided to punish the people of Israel.

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Cross References

2 Samuel 3:27So when Abner returned to Hebron, Joab met him at the city gate, and took him aside as though he wanted to speak with him privately. Then he stabbed Abner in the stomach with his knife/sword. In that way he murdered Abner because Abner had killed [MTY] Joab’s brother Asahel.

2 Samuel 20:9Joab said to Amasa, “Are things going well with you, my friend?” Then Joab grabbed Amasa’s beard with his right hand, in order to kiss him.

Matthew Henry on 1 Chronicles 21:2-7

The Giants Subdued. ( b. c. 1017.) 1 And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel. 2 And David said to Joab and to the rulers of the people, Go, number Israel from Beer-sheba even to Dan; and bring the number of them to me, that I may know it. 3 And Joab answered, The Lord make his people a 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? 4 Nevertheless… Read the whole commentary →

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