2Sa 24:1, 1Ki 10:9, Pro 28:2, Ecc 10:16, Isa 3:4-5, 19:4 | TSK | STEP | David, tempted by Satan, forces Joab to number the people. The captains, in nine months and twenty days, bring the muster of thirteen hundred thousand fighting men. David repents, and having three plagues propounded by God, chooses the three days' pestilence. After the death of three score and ten thousand, David by prayer prevents the destruction of Jerusalem. David, by God's direction, purchases Araunah's threshing floor; where having sacrificed, the plague stays. A.M. 2987. B.C. 1017. An. Ex. Is. 474. again. he.This verse, when read without reference to any other part of the word of God, is very difficult to understand, and has been used by those who desire to undermine the justice of God, to shew that he sought occasion to punish--that he incited David to sin; and when he had so incited him, gave to him the dreadful alternative of choosing one of three scourges by which his people were to be cut off. On the face of the passage these thoughts naturally arise, because "the Lord" is the antecedent to the pronoun "he,"--He moved David. But to those who "search the Scriptures," this exceedingly difficult passage receives a wonderful elucidation, By referring to 1 Ch 21:1, the reader will there find that Satan was the mover, and that the Lord most righteously punished David for the display of pride he had manifested. Oh! that Christians, who sometimes have their minds harassed with doubts, would remember the promise, that what they know not now they shall know hereafter; and if no other instance of elucidation than this passage occurred to them to remove their doubts, let this be a means of stirring them up to dig deeper than ever into the inexhaustible mines of the Inspired Word. moved. Go, number.

2 Samuel 24:1

1 David, tempted by Satan, forces Joab to number the people.

5 The captains, in nine months and twenty days, bring the muster of thirteen hundred thousand fighting men.

10 David repents, and having three plagues propounded by God, chooses the three days' pestilence.

15 After the death of three score and ten thousand, David by prayer prevents the destruction of Jerusalem.

18 David, by God's direction, purchases Araunah's threshing floor; where having sacrificed, the plague stays.

A.M. 2987. B.C. 1017. An. Ex. Is. 474. again.

he.This verse, when read without reference to any other part of the word of God, is very difficult to understand, and has been used by those who desire to undermine the justice of God, to shew that he sought occasion to punish--that he incited David to sin; and when he had so incited him, gave to him the dreadful alternative of choosing one of three scourges by which his people were to be cut off. On the face of the passage these thoughts naturally arise, because "the Lord" is the antecedent to the pronoun "he,"--He moved David. But to those who "search the Scriptures," this exceedingly difficult passage receives a wonderful elucidation, By referring to 1 Ch 21:1, the reader will there find that Satan was the mover, and that the Lord most righteously punished David for the display of pride he had manifested. Oh! that Christians, who sometimes have their minds harassed with doubts, would remember the promise, that what they know not now they shall know hereafter; and if no other instance of elucidation than this passage occurred to them to remove their doubts, let this be a means of stirring them up to dig deeper than ever into the inexhaustible mines of the Inspired Word.

Jas 1:13,14

moved.

12:11; 16:10; Ge 45:5; 50:20; Ex 7:3; 1Sa 26:19; 1Ki 22:20-23

Eze 14:9; 20:25; Ac 4:28; 2Th 2:11

Go, number.

1Ch 27:23,24

1 Kings 10:9

Blessed.

5:7; Ps 72:17-19

delighteth.

Ps 18:19; 22:8; Isa 42:1; 62:4

because the.

De 7:8; 1Ch 17:22; 2Ch 2:11

to do.

2Sa 8:15; 23:3; Ps 72:2; Pr 8:15,16; Isa 9:7; 11:4,5; 32:1,2

Jer 23:5,6; Ro 13:3,4

Proverbs 28:2

the transgression.

1Ki 15:25,28; 16:8-29; 2Ki 15:8-31; 2Ch 36:1-12; Isa 3:1-7

Ho 13:11

but.

Ge 45:5-8; 2Ch 32:20-26; Job 22:28-30; Ec 9:15; Isa 58:12; Da 4:27

by a man, etc. by men of understanding and wisdom shall theylikewise be prolonged.

Ecclesiastes 10:16

when.

2Ch 13:7; 33:1-20; 36:2,5,9,11; Isa 3:4,5,12

and.

Pr 20:1,2; Isa 5:11,12; 28:7,8; Ho 7:5-7

in the.

Jer 21:12

Isaiah 3:4-5

children.

1Ki 3:7-9; 2Ch 33:1; 34:1; 36:2,5,9,11; Ec 10:16

the people.

9:19-21; 11:13; Jer 9:3-8; 22:17; Eze 22:6,7,12; Am 4:1

Mic 3:1-3,11; Zec 7:9-11; Mal 3:5; Jas 2:6; 5:4

child.

1:4; Le 19:32; 2Ki 2:23; Job 30:1-12

base.

2Sa 16:5-9; Ec 10:5-7; Mt 26:67; 27:28-30; Mr 14:65; Lu 22:64

Isaiah 19:4

give over. or, shut up.

1Sa 23:7; Ps 31:8

a cruel lord.Rather, "cruel lords," agreeable to the LXX., Syriac, Vulgate, and the original {adonim kasheh.} Nebuchadnezzar, who first conquered and ravaged Egypt, B.C. 573, and the following year; and then, not only his successors, but Cambyses, (who invaded Egypt, B.C. 526,) the son of Cyrus, and the whole succession of Persian kings till the time of Alexander, who were in general hard masters, and grievously oppressed the country.

2; 20:4; Jer 46:26; Eze 29:19