The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from King James Bible: people.
SA2 24:3 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?
SA2 24:4 Notwithstanding the king's word prevailed against Joab, and
against the captains of the host. And Joab and the captains of the host
went out from the presence of the king, to number the people of Israel.
SA2 24:5 And they passed over Jordan, and pitched in Aroer, on the
right side of the city that lieth in the midst of the river of Gad, and
toward Jazer:
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