New Revised Standard Version
But the king’s word prevailed against Joab. So Joab departed and went throughout all Israel, and came back to Jerusalem.

Contemporary English Version
But David would not change his mind. And so Joab went everywhere in Israel and Judah and counted the people. He returned to Jerusalem

New American Bible
However, the king’s command prevailed over Joab, who departed and traversed all of Israel, and then returned to Jerusalem.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But the king's word rather prevailed: and Joab departed, and went through all Israel: and returned to Jerusalem.

But the king's word rather prevailed: and Joab departed, and went through all Israel: and returned to Jerusalem.

the king's

Ecclesiastes 8:4 And his word is full of power: neither can any man say to him: Why dost thou so?

Wherefore

Exodus 1:17 But the midwives feared God, and did not do as the king of Egypt had commanded, but saved the men children.

Daniel 3:18 But if he will not, be it known to thee, O king, that we will not worship thy gods, nor adore the golden statue which thou hast set up.

Acts 5:29 But Peter and the apostles answering, said: We ought to obey God rather than men.

and went

2 Samuel 24:3-8 And 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? . . .