2 Samuel 24:3
Joab said to the king, “Now may the LORD your God add to the people, however many they may be, one hundred times; and may the eyes of my lord the king see it. But why does my lord the king delight in this thing?”2 Samuel 24:3 · WEB
This verse in other languages
- ગુજરાતી — 2 શમુએલ ૨૪:૩
- યોઆબે રાજાને કહ્યું, “લોકો ગમે તેટલાં હોય, તો પણ તમારા પ્રભુ ઈશ્વર તેઓને સોગણાં વધારો અને તું મારો માલિક રાજા પોતાની આંખે તે જુએ. પણ હે રાજા આ વાતમાં તું કેમ આનંદ માને છે?”
- हिन्दी — 2 शमूएल २४:३
- योआब ने राजा से कहा, “प्रजा के लोग कितने भी क्यों न हों, तेरा परमेश्वर यहोवा उनको सौ गुणा बढ़ा दे, और मेरा प्रभु राजा इसे अपनी आँखों से देखने भी पाए; परन्तु, हे मेरे प्रभु, हे राजा, यह बात तू क्यों चाहता है?”
In context
1Again the LORD’s anger burned against Israel, and he moved David against them, saying, “Go, count Israel and Judah.”
2The king said to Joab the captain of the army, who was with him, “Now go back and forth through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan even to Beersheba, and count the people, that I may know the sum of the people.”
3Joab said to the king, “Now may the LORD your God add to the people, however many they may be, one hundred times; and may the eyes of my lord the king see it. But why does my lord the king delight in this thing?”
4Notwithstanding, the king’s word prevailed against Joab and against the captains of the army. Joab and the captains of the army went out from the presence of the king to count the people of Israel.
5They passed over the Jordan and encamped in Aroer, on the right side of the city that is in the middle of the valley of Gad, and to Jazer;
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