Sāmǔĕrjìxià 24:3

3 Yuē yē duì wáng shuō , wúlùn bǎixìng duōshào , yuàn Yēhéhuá nǐde shén zaì jiā zēng bǎi beì , shǐ wǒ zhǔ wǒ wáng qīnyǎn dé jiàn . wǒ zhǔ wǒ wáng hébì xǐyuè xíng zhè shì ne .

Sāmǔĕrjìxià 24:3 Meaning and Commentary

2 Samuel 24:3

And Joab said unto the king
Not so rudely and insolently as he did on account of his mourning for Absalom, but in a more modest, decent, and polite manner:

now the Lord thy God add unto the people (how many soever they be) an
hundredfold;
he wished his subjects were an hundred times more numerous than they were:

and that the eyes of my lord the king may see [it];
that he might live to see with his own eyes so great an increase:

but why doth my lord the king delight in this thing?
he being now old, and therefore it might seem strange to indulge such curiosity, pride, and vanity, and besides quite needless and useless: the numbering of them would not make them more or less; and they were all the king's servants, who were ready to obey him whenever he needed them, whether numbered or not; and it might be prejudicial to them, and bring down the wrath of God upon them, as well as be a troublesome and expensive business; all which, though not expressed here, is hinted at in ( 1 Chronicles 21:3 ) .

Sāmǔĕrjìxià 24:3 In-Context

1 Yēhéhuá yòu xiàng Yǐsèliè rén fānù , jiù jīdòng Dàwèi , shǐ tā fēnfu rén qù shǔ diǎn Yǐsèliè rén hé Yóudà rén .

2 Dàwèi jiù fēnfu gēnsuí tāde yuán shuaì Yuēyē shuō , nǐ qù zǒu biàn Yǐsèliè zhòng zhīpaì , cóng dàn zhídào Bièshìbā , shǔ diǎn bǎixìng , wǒ hǎo zhīdào tāmende shùmù .

3 Yuē yē duì wáng shuō , wúlùn bǎixìng duōshào , yuàn Yēhéhuá nǐde shén zaì jiā zēng bǎi beì , shǐ wǒ zhǔ wǒ wáng qīnyǎn dé jiàn . wǒ zhǔ wǒ wáng hébì xǐyuè xíng zhè shì ne .

4 Dàn wáng de mìnglìng shēng guō Yuēyē hé zhòng jūnzhǎng . Yuēyē hé zhòng jūnzhǎng jiù cóng wáng miànqián chū qù , shǔ diǎn Yǐsèliè de bǎixìng .

5 Tāmen guō le Yuēdànhé , zaì Jiādé gǔ zhōng , chéng de yòubiān yà luó Ěr ān yíng , yǔ Yǎxiè xiāngduì ,