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Hebrew Modern Translation

דברי הימים א 21:6

ולוי ובנימן לא פקד בתוכם כי נתעב דבר המלך את יואב׃

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Benjamin;   Census;   Conscience;   Integrity;   Israel;   Rulers;  

Dictionaries:

- Fausset Bible Dictionary - Army;   Census;   Joab;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Chronicles, I;   Number;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Joash;   Temple;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Da'vid;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Joab;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Aleppo Codex
ולוי ובנימן לא פקד בתוכם כי נתעב דבר המלך את יואב
Biblia Hebrica Stuttgartensia (1967/77)
וְלֵוִי֙ וּבִנְיָמִ֔ן לֹ֥א פָקַ֖ד בְּתוֹכָ֑ם כִּֽי־נִתְעַ֥ב דְּבַר־הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ אֶת־יוֹאָֽב ׃
Westminster Leningrad Codex
וְלֵוִי וּבִנְיָמִן לֹא פָקַד בְּתוֹכָם כִּֽי־נִתְעַב דְּבַר־הַמֶּלֶךְ אֶת־יוֹאָֽב ׃

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Levi: Numbers 1:47-49

Joab: 2 Samuel 3:27, 2 Samuel 11:15-21, 2 Samuel 20:9, 2 Samuel 20:10

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 24:9 - eight hundred thousand 1 Kings 3:8 - cannot Luke 6:41 - but

Gill's Notes on the Bible

See Gill "1Ch 21:1".

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

To omit the Levites would be to follow the precedent recorded in Numbers 1:47-49. The omission of Benjamin must he ascribed to a determination on the part of Joab to frustrate the king’s intention, whereby he might hope to avert God’s wrath from the people.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Chronicles 21:6. Levi and Benjamin counted he not — The rabbins give the following reason for this: Joab, seeing that this would bring down destruction upon the people, purposed to save two tribes. Should David ask, Why have you not numbered the Levites? Joab purposed to say, Because the Levites are not reckoned among the children of Israel. Should he ask, Why have you not numbered Benjamin? he would answer, Benjamin has been already sufficiently punished, on account of the treatment of the woman at Gibeah: if, therefore, this tribe were to be again punished, who would remain?


 
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