³ Joab said, 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?

⁹ Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said to him, "What have you done to us? How have I sinned against you, that you have brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? You have done deeds to me that ought not to be done!"

¹⁵ You have increased the nation, O Yahweh, you have increased the nation; you are glorified; you have enlarged all the borders of the land.

²⁸ In the multitude of people is the king's glory, But in the lack of people is the destruction of the prince.

¹⁴ May Yahweh increase you more and more, You and your children.

¹³ Be of good courage, and let us play the man for our people, and for the cities of our God: and Yahweh do that which seems him good.

¹⁶ He will give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, which he has sinned, and with which he has made Israel to sin.

²⁴ No, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear: you make Yahweh's people to disobey.

¹¹ Yahweh, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times as many as you are, and bless you, as he has promised you!

⁹ For when they went up to the valley of Eshcol, and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, that they should not go into the land which Yahweh had given them.

¹⁰ Yahweh's anger was kindled in that day, and he swore, saying,

²¹ Moses said to Aaron, "What did these people do to you, that you have brought a great sin on them?"

¹⁹ your seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of your loins like the grains of it: his name would not be cut off nor destroyed from before me.