But Joab said, “May the Lord add to his people a hundred times as many as they are! Are they not, my lord the king, all of them my lord's servants? Why then should my lord require this? Why should it be a cause of guilt for Israel?”
May the Lord, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times as many as you are and bless you, as he has promised you!
your offspring would have been like the sand, and your descendants like its grains; their name would never be cut off or destroyed from before me.”
But you have increased the nation, O Lord, you have increased the nation; you are glorified; you have enlarged all the borders of the land.
In a multitude of people is the glory of a king, but without people a prince is ruined.
May the Lord give you increase, you and your children!
Be strong, and let us use our strength for our people and for the cities of our God, and may the Lord do what seems good to him.”
And he will give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, which he sinned and made Israel to sin.”
No, my sons; it is no good report that I hear the people of the Lord spreading abroad.
For when they went up to the Valley of Eshcol and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the people of Israel from going into the land that the Lord had given them. And the Lord's anger was kindled on that day, and he swore, saying,
And Moses said to Aaron, “What did this people do to you that you have brought such a great sin upon them?”
Then Abimelech called Abraham and said to him, “What have you done to us? And how have I sinned against you, that you have brought on me and my kingdom a great sin? You have done to me things that ought not to be done.”
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