Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Chronicles 21:3

3 And Joab answered, The LORD make his people an hundred times as many mo as they be: but my lord the king, are they not all my lords servants, why then doth my lord require this thing! why will he be a cause of trespass to Israel .

Or, why will he be, or, why should this be a trespass or a cause of trespass or an occasion of punishment, (for Hebrew words signifying sin are oft used to note the punishment of Sin:) or a desolation, or a cause of desolation or destruction (for the verb whence this noun proceeds is oft used in that Sense) to or against Israel? Why wilst thou provoke God by this sin to punish Israel? Thus he speaks because God commonly punisheth the People for the sins of their Rulers, because they are for the most part guilty of their sins in one kind or other; or at least God takes this occasion to punish People for all their Sins.

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