2Sa 24:1-9 | TSK | e4.org | am 2987, bc 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 , 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 , ; , ; ; ; ; , ; ; number

‏ 2 Samuel 24:1-9

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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 1Chr 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 2Sam 12:11, 2Sam 16:10; Gen 45:5, Gen 50:20; Exod 7:3; 1Sam 26:19; 1Kgs 22:20-23; Ezek 14:9, Ezek 20:25; Acts 4:28; 2Thess 2:11

number 1Chr 27:23-24

Joab 2Sam 2:13, 2Sam 8:16, 2Sam 20:23, 2Sam 23:37

Go now etc. or, Compass now all, 1Chr 21:2

from Dan 2Sam 3:10, 2Sam 17:11; Judg 20:1

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 Deut 8:13-14; 2Chr 32:25-26, 2Chr 32:31; Prov 29:23; Jer 17:5; 2Cor 12:7

2Sam 10:12; 1Chr 21:3-4; Ps 115:14; Prov 14:28; Isa 60:5

the king's 1Chr 21:4; Eccl 8:4

went out Exod 1:17; Acts 5:29

Aroer Deut 2:36; Josh 13:9, Josh 13:16; 1Sam 30:28; Isa 17:2

river or, valley

Jazer Num 32:1, Num 32:3, Num 32:35; Isa 16:8-9

Gilead Gen 31:21, Gen 31:47-48; Num 32:1, Num 32:39

land of Tahtimhodshi or, nether land newly inhabited, Dan-jaan. Josh 19:47; Judg 18:29

Zidon Gen 10:15; Josh 11:8, Josh 19:28; Judg 18:28

Tyre Josh 19:29

to Beersheba 2Sam 24:2; Gen 21:31-33

eight hundred thousand 1Chr 21:5-6, 1Chr 27:23-24