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Joab questions the king’s command.
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2 Samuel 24:3

Joab objects to the census

The Census and the Altar · 2 Samuel 24

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3But Joab said to the king, “May Yahweh your God add to the people a hundred times as many as they are, and may the eyes of my lord the king see it. But why does my lord the king delight in this thing?”

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