2 Samuel 24:2 (KJV)

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For the king said to Joab the captain of the host which was with him Go now through all the tribes of Israel from Dan even to Beer-sheba and number ye the people that I may know the number of the people

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Cross-references

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.

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