Second Book of Kings (Author Compiled by Isaias from records of Samuel, David, Nathan, and Gad.)
24:3And Joab said to the king: The Lord thy God increase thy people, and make them as many more as they are now, and again multiply them a hundredfold in the sight of my lord the king: but what meaneth my lord the king by this kind of thing?
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