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2 Samuel 24:3 (KJV)

And Joab said unto the king, Now the LORD thy God add unto the people, how many soever they be, an hundredfold, and that the eyes of my lord the king may see [it]: but why doth my lord the king delight in this thing?

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Deuteronomy 1:11 - (The LORD God of your fathers make you a thousand times so many more as ye [are], and bless you, as he hath promised you!)
2 Samuel 10:12 - Be of good courage, and let us play the men for our people, and for the cities of our God: and the LORD do that which seemeth him good.
1 Chronicles 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?
Psalms 115:14 - The LORD shall increase you more and more, you and your children.
Proverbs 14:28 - In the multitude of people [is] the king's honour: but in the want of people [is] the destruction of the prince.
Isaiah 60:5 - Then thou shalt see, and flow together, and thine heart shall fear, and be enlarged; because the abundance of the sea shall be converted unto thee, the forces of the Gentiles shall come unto thee.

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