2Sa 24:2-15, 1Ch 21:12, 14, 27:24 | TSK | STEP | Joab. Go now, etc. or, Compass now all. from Dan. and number.We know not in what the sinfulness of this action consisted. Some think it was a contempt of the promise that the Israelites should be innumerable, and that they ought not to have been numbered without an express command, as in the days of Moses. Others suppose with Josephus that it was a kind of sacrilege, in omitting to collect the half-shekel a-piece for the use of the sanctuary. It however would appear that pride and ambition, and a desire of conquest, induced David to this measure, and rendered it so displeasing to God. that I may.

2 Samuel 24:2-15

Joab.

Go now, etc. or, Compass now all.

from Dan.

and number.We know not in what the sinfulness of this action consisted. Some think it was a contempt of the promise that the Israelites should be innumerable, and that they ought not to have been numbered without an express command, as in the days of Moses. Others suppose with Josephus that it was a kind of sacrilege, in omitting to collect the half-shekel a-piece for the use of the sanctuary. It however would appear that pride and ambition, and a desire of conquest, induced David to this measure, and rendered it so displeasing to God.

that I may.

De 8:13,14; 2Ch 32:25,26,31; Pr 29:23; Jer 17:5; 2Co 12:7

10:12; 1Ch 21:3,4; Ps 115:14; Pr 14:28; Isa 60:5

the king's.

1Ch 21:4; Ec 8:4

went out.

Ex 1:17; Ac 5:29

Aroer.

De 2:36; Jos 13:9,16; 1Sa 30:28; Isa 17:2

river. or, valley. Jazer.

Nu 32:1,3,35; Isa 16:8,9

Gilead.

Ge 31:21,47,48; Nu 32:1,39

land of Tahtim-hodshi. or, nether land newly inhabited.Dan-jaan.

Jos 19:47; Jud 18:29

Zidon.

Ge 10:15; Jos 11:8; 19:28; Jud 18:28

Tyre.

Jos 19:29

to Beer-sheba.

2; Ge 21:31-33

eight hundred thousand.

1Ch 21:5,6; 27:23,24

David's heart.

1Sa 24:5; Joh 8:9; 1Jo 3:20,21

I have sinned.

12:13; 1Ch 21:8; 2Ch 32:26; Job 33:27,28; Ps 32:5; Pr 28:13

Mic 7:8,9; 1Jo 1:9

take away.

Job 7:21; Ho 14:2; Joh 1:29

foolishly.

12:13; De 32:6; 1Sa 13:13; 26:21; 2Ch 16:9; Mr 7:22; Tit 3:3

Gad.

1Sa 22:5; 1Ch 2:19; 29:29

seer.

1Sa 9:9

I offer.

1Ch 21:10,11

that I may.

12:9,10,14; Le 26:41,43; Job 5:17,18; Pr 3:12; Heb 12:6-10

Re 3:19

seven.

21:1; Le 26:20; 1Ki 17:1-7; 1Ch 21:12; Eze 14:13,21; Lu 4:25

flee.

Le 26:17,36,37; De 28:25,52

three days.

Le 26:16,25; De 28:22,27,35; Ps 91:6; Eze 14:19-21

I am in.

1Sa 13:6; 2Ki 6:15; Joh 12:27; Php 1:23

for his.

Ex 34:6,7; 1Ch 21:13; Ps 51:1; 86:5,15; 103:8-14; 119:156; 145:9

Isa 55:7; Jon 4:2; Mic 7:18

great. or, many. let me not.

2Ki 13:3-7; 2Ch 28:5-9; Ps 106:41,42; Pr 12:10; Isa 47:6; Zec 1:15

the Lord.

Nu 16:46-49; 25:9; 1Sa 6:19; 1Ch 21:14; 27:4; Mt 24:7; Re 6:8

from Dan.

seventy thousand men.

Isa 37:36

1 Chronicles 21:12

three year's famine.In 2 Sa 24:13, it is seven years; but the Septuagint has there [tria ete,] three years, as here; which is, no doubt, the true reading; the letter [Zayin,] {zayin,} seven, being mistaken for [Giymel,] {gimmel,} three.

Le 26:26-29; 2Sa 21:1; 24:13; 1Ki 17:1; 2Ki 8:1; La 4:9; Lu 4:25

to be destroyed.

Le 26:17,36,37; De 28:15,25,51,52; Jer 42:16

the sword.

16; Isa 66:16; Jer 12:12; 47:6

even the pestilence.

Le 26:10,25; De 28:22,27,35; Ps 91:6; Eze 14:19-21

the angel.

15,16; Ex 12:23; 2Ki 19:35; Mt 13:49,50; Ac 12:23; Re 7:1-3

Now therefore.

2Sa 24:13,14