2 Samuël 24:4

Gereviseerde Leidse Vertaling

Maar het bevel des konings was Joab en den legeroversten te machtig; zo trokken Joab en de legeroversten van voor den koning uit, om het volk Israel te monsteren.

Parallel Translations

Gereviseerde Lutherse Vertaling
Doch het woord des konings stond vast tegen Joab en de hoofdlieden des heirs. Alzo trok Joab, en de hoofdlieden des heirs, van den koning uit, opdat zij het volk Israls telden;

Staten Vertaling
Doch des konings woord nam de overhand tegen Joab, en tegen de oversten des heirs. Alzo toog Joab uit, met de oversten des heirs, van des konings aangezicht, om het volk Israel te tellen.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the king's: 1 Chronicles 21:4, Ecclesiastes 8:4

went out: Exodus 1:17, Acts 5:29

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Notwithstanding the king's word prevailed against Joab, and against the captains of the host,.... Who it seems were of the same mind with Joab, and were against numbering the people, yet their arguments and remonstrances were of no avail with the king; he was determined it should be done, and laid his commands upon them to do it, which they were obliged to comply with:

and Joab and the captains of the host went out from the presence of the king, to number the people of Israel; seeing him resolute and determined, they submitted, took his orders, and set out to execute them.