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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from King James Bible: CH1 21:3 And Joab answered, The LORD make his people an hundred times
so many more as they be: but, my lord the king, are they not all my
lord's servants? why then doth my lord require this thing? why will he
be a cause of trespass to Israel?
CH1 21:4 Nevertheless the king's word prevailed against Joab. Wherefore
Joab departed, and went throughout all Israel, and came to Jerusalem.
CH1 21:5 And Joab gave the sum of the number of the people unto David.
And all they of Israel were a thousand thousand and an hundred thousand
men that drew sword: and Judah was four hundred threescore and ten
thousand men that drew sword.
CH1 21:6 But Levi and Benjamin counted he not among them: for the
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