The Second Book of Samuel Otherwise Called The Second Book of the Kings 24

A.M. 2987. B.C. 1017. An. Ex. Is. 474. again. 2Sa 21:1-14

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 Jas 1:14

moved. 2Sa 12:11 2Sa 16:10 Ge 45:5 Ge 50:20 Ex 7:3 1Sa 26:19 1Ki 22:20-23 Eze 14:9 Eze 20:25 Ac 4:28 2Th 2:11

Go, number. 1Ch 27:23 1Ch 27:24

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

Joab. 2Sa 2:13 2Sa 8:16 2Sa 20:23 2Sa 23:37

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

from Dan. 2Sa 3:10 2Sa 17:11 Re 19:1

that I may. De 8:13 De 8:14 2Ch 32:25 2Ch 32:26 2Ch 32:31 Pr 29:23 Jer 17:5 2Co 12:7

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.

2Sa 10:12 1Ch 21:3 1Ch 21:4 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 Jos 13:16 1Sa 30:28 Isa 17:2

river. or, valley. Jazer. Nu 32:1 Nu 32:3 Nu 32:35 Isa 16:8 Isa 16:9

Gilead. Ge 31:21 Ge 31:47 Ge 31:48 Nu 32:1 Nu 32:39

land of Tahtim-hodshi. or, nether land newly inhabited.Dan-jaan. Jos 19:47 Re 18:11

Zidon. Ge 10:15 Jos 11:8 Jos 19:28 Re 18:10

Tyre. Jos 19:29

to Beer-sheba. 2Sa 24:2 Ge 21:31-33

2Sa 24:8

eight hundred thousand. 1Ch 21:5 1Ch 21:6 1Ch 27:23 1Ch 27:24

David's heart. 1Sa 24:5 Joh 8:9 1Jo 3:20 1Jo 3:21

I have sinned. 2Sa 12:13 1Ch 21:8 2Ch 32:26 Job 33:27 Job 33:28 Ps 32:5 Pr 28:13 Mic 7:8 Mic 7:9 1Jo 1:9

take away. Job 7:21 Ho 14:2 Joh 1:29

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

Gad. 1Sa 22:5 1Ch 2:19 1Ch 29:29

seer. 1Sa 9:9

I offer. 1Ch 21:10 1Ch 21:11

that I may. 2Sa 12:9 2Sa 12:10 2Sa 12:14 Le 26:41 Le 26:43 Job 5:17 Job 5:18 Pr 3:12 Heb 12:6-10 Re 3:19

seven. 2Sa 21:1 Le 26:20 1Ki 17:1-7 1Ch 21:12 Eze 14:13 Eze 14:21 Lu 4:25

flee. Le 26:17 Le 26:36 Le 26:37 De 28:25 De 28:52

three days. Le 26:16 Le 26:25 De 28:22 De 28:27 De 28:35 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 Ex 34:7 1Ch 21:13 Ps 51:1 Ps 86:5 Ps 86:15 Ps 103:8-14 Ps 119:156 Ps 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 Ps 106:42 Pr 12:10 Isa 47:6 Zec 1:15

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

from Dan. 2Sa 24:2

seventy thousand men. Isa 37:36

the angel. Ex 12:23 2Ki 19:35 1Ch 21:15 1Ch 21:16 2Ch 32:21 Ps 35:6 Ac 12:23

repented. Ge 6:6 1Sa 15:11 Ps 78:38 Ps 90:13 Ps 135:14 Jer 18:7-10 Joe 2:13 Joe 2:14 Am 7:3 Am 7:6 Hab 3:2

It is enough. Ex 9:28 1Ki 19:4 Isa 27:8 Isa 40:1 Isa 40:2 Isa 57:16 Joe 2:13 Joe 2:14 Mr 14:41 2Co 2:6

Araunah. 2Sa 24:18 1Ch 21:15 2Ch 3:1

Ornan. the Jebusite. 2Sa 5:8 Ge 10:16 Jos 15:63 Jude 1:21 Re 18:11 Zec 9:7

spake. 1Ch 21:16 1Ch 21:17

Lo, I have sinned. 2Sa 24:10 Job 7:20 Job 42:6 Ps 51:2-5 Isa 6:5

these sheep. 1Ki 22:17 Ps 44:11 Ps 74:1 Eze 34:2-6 Eze 34:23 Eze 34:24 Zec 13:7

let thine. Ge 44:33 Joh 10:11 Joh 10:12 1Pe 2:24 1Pe 2:25

Gad. 2Sa 24:11 1Ch 21:18-30

Araunah. Heb. Araniah. 2Sa 24:16

threshing floor.These, among the ancient Jews, were only round, level plats of ground in the open air, as they are to this day in the East, where the corn was trodden out by oxen.

as the Lord. Ge 6:22 1Ch 21:19 2Ch 20:20 2Ch 36:16 Ne 9:26 Heb 11:8

bowed. 2Sa 9:8 Ge 18:2 Ru 2:10 1Ch 21:20 1Ch 21:21

Wherefore. 2Sa 24:3 2Sa 24:18

To buy. Ge 23:8-16 1Ch 21:22 Jer 32:6-14

the plague. 2Sa 21:3-14 Nu 16:47-50 Nu 25:8 Ps 106:30

Let my lord. Ge 23:11 1Ch 21:22

be oxen. 1Sa 6:14 1Ki 19:21

as a king. Ps 45:16 Isa 32:8

The Lord. Job 42:8 Job 42:9 Ps 20:3 Ps 20:4 Isa 60:7 Eze 20:40 Eze 20:41 Ho 8:13 Ro 15:30 Ro 15:31 1Ti 2:1 1Ti 2:2 1Pe 2:5

Nay. Ge 23:13 1Ch 21:24 Mal 1:12-14 Ro 12:17

So David. 1Ch 21:25 1Ch 22:1

built there. Ge 8:20 Ge 22:9 1Sa 7:9 1Sa 7:17

So the Lord. 2Sa 24:14 2Sa 21:14 1Ch 21:26 1Ch 21:27 La 3:32 La 3:33