And Joab said unto the king,.... Not so rudely and insolently as he did on account of his mourning for Absalom, but in a more modest, decent, and polite manner:now the Lord thy God add unto the people (how many soever they be) an hundredfold; he wished his subjects were an hundred times more numerous than they were:and that the eyes of my lord the king may see [it]; that he might live to see with his own eyes so great an increase:but why doth my lord the king delight in this thing?
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2 Samuel 24:3
2 Samuel 24:3
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