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2 Samuel 24:3-5
Common English Bible
2 Samuel 24:3-5
Common English Bible
3 Joab said to the king, “May the Lord your God increase the number of people a hundred times while the eyes of my master the king can still see it! But why does my master the king want to do this?”
4 But the king’s word overruled Joab and the military commanders. So Joab and the commanders left the king’s presence to take a census of the Israelites. 5 They crossed the Jordan River and began from Aroer and from[a] the town that is in the middle of the valley of Gad, then on to Jazer.
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- 2 Samuel 24:5 LXX; MT camped in Aroer south of the city
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