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1 Chronicles 21:4

in 1 Chronicles 21

Nevertheless, the king’s word prevailed against Joab. So Joab departed and traveled throughout Israel, and then he returned to Jerusalem.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Nevertheless the king’s word prevailed against Joab. Wherefore Joab departed, and went throughout all Israel, and came to Jerusalem.

KJV

Nevertheless the king’s word prevailed against Joab. Wherefore Joab departed, and went throughout all Israel, and came to Jerusalem.

This verse in 1 Chronicles 21

Commentary

1 note on this verse

This site's exposition

the king’s word prevailed against Joab

on 1 Chronicles 21:4-6

Joab's count reaches every tribe, and Chronicles gives its own totals of 1,100,000 swordsmen in Israel and 470,000 in Judah. The account in 2 Samuel 24:9 gives 800,000 and 500,000. Albert Barnes reads the differing totals as a census left unfinished and recorded at two stages.

The words behind it

12 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וּדְבַר־and [the] word of

    udevar-H1697 →1440 times

  • הַמֶּ֖לֶךְthe king

    hamelekhH4428 →2525 times

  • חָזַ֣קit prevailed

    chazakH2388 →291 times

  • עַל־over

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • יוֹאָ֑בJoab

    yoavH3097 →144 times

  • וַיֵּצֵ֣אand he went out

    vaiyetze'H3318 →1067 times

  • יוֹאָ֗בJoab

    yoavH3097 →144 times

  • וַיִּתְהַלֵּךְ֙and he went about

    vaiyithalekhH1980 →1546 times

  • בְּכָל־in all

    bekholH3605 →5413 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵ֔לIsrael

    yisraelH3478 →2507 times

  • וַיָּבֹ֖אand he came

    vaiyavo'H935 →2568 times

  • יְרוּשָׁלִָֽם׃Jerusalem

    yerushalimH3389 →643 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Acts 5:29

    But Peter and the other apostles replied, “We must obey God rather than men.

    it leads to

    • Acts 4:19

      But Peter and John replied, “Judge for yourselves whether it is right in God’s sight to listen to you rather than God.

    • 1 Samuel 15:24

      Then Saul said to Samuel, “I have sinned; I have transgressed the LORD’s commandment and your instructions, because I feared the people and obeyed their voice.

    • Mark 7:7–9

      They worship Me in vain; they teach as doctrine the precepts of men.’

    • Genesis 3:17

      And to Adam He said: “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat, cursed is the ground because…

  • Through

    Exodus 1:17

    The midwives, however, feared God and did not do as the king of Egypt had instructed; they let the boys live.

    it leads to

    • Acts 5:29

      But Peter and the other apostles replied, “We must obey God rather than men.

    • Exodus 1:21

      And because the midwives feared God, He gave them families of their own.

  • Through

    Daniel 3:18

    But even if He does not, let it be known to you, O king, that we will not serve your gods or worship the golden statue you have set up.”

    it leads to

    • Acts 5:29–32

      But Peter and the other apostles replied, “We must obey God rather than men.

    • Matthew 10:39

      Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.

Where this verse is studied

About 1 Chronicles

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible and Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament.