³ But Joab said, “May the Lord increase the number of his people a hundredfold! Are they not, my lord the king, all of them my lord’s servants? Why then should my lord require this? Why should he bring guilt on Israel?”^(A)

¹¹ May the Lord, the God of your ancestors, increase you a thousand times more and bless you, as he has promised you!^(A)

¹³ Be strong, and let us be courageous for our people and for the cities of our God, and may the Lord do what seems good to him.”

¹⁶ He will give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, which he sinned and which he caused Israel to commit.”^(A)

²⁴ No, my sons; it is not a good report that I hear the people of the Lord spreading abroad.^(A)

⁹ When they went up to the Wadi Eshcol and saw the land, they discouraged the hearts of the Israelites from going into the land that the Lord had given them. ¹⁰ The Lord’s anger was kindled on that day, and he swore, saying,^(A)