4Nevertheless the king's word prevailed against Joab. Therefore Joab departed, and went throughout all Israel, and came to Jerusalem.


In Context

1 Satan stood up against Israel, and moved David to number Israel.

2 David said to Joab and to the princes of the people, |Go, number Israel from Beersheba even to Dan; and bring me word, that I may know the sum of them.|

3 Joab said, |May Yahweh make his people a hundred times as many as they are. But, my lord the king, aren't they all my lord's servants? Why does my lord require this thing? Why will he be a cause of guilt to Israel?|

4 Nevertheless the king's word prevailed against Joab. Therefore Joab departed, and went throughout all Israel, and came to Jerusalem.

5 Joab gave up the sum of the numbering of the people to David. All those of Israel were one million one hundred thousand men who drew sword: and in Judah were four hundred seventy thousand men who drew sword.

6 But he didn't count Levi and Benjamin among them; for the king's word was abominable to Joab.

1 Chronicles 21:4 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

21:4The king's word, however, overruled Joab; so Joab left and went throughout Israel and then came back to Jerusalem.

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

21:4Nevertheless the king’s word prevailed against Joab. Wherefore Joab departed, and went throughout all Israel, and came to Jerusalem.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

21:4But the king's word rather prevailed: and Joab departed, and went through all Israel: and returned to Jerusalem.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

21:4Nevertheless the king's word prevailed against Joab. Wherefore Joab departed, and went throughout all Israel, and came to Jerusalem.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

21:4But the king's word prevailed against Joab; and Joab departed, and went through all Israel, and came again to Jerusalem.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

21:4Nevertheless the king's word prevailed against Joab. Wherefore Joab departed, and went throughout all Israel, and came to Jerusalem.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

21:4Nevertheless the king's word prevailed against Joab. Wherefore Joab departed, and went throughout all Israel, and came to Jerusalem.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

21:4And the word of the king is severe against Joab, and Joab goeth out, and goeth up and down in all Israel, and cometh in to Jerusalem.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

21:4Nevertheless the king's word prevailed against Joab. Why Joab departed, and went throughout all Israel, and came to Jerusalem.