2 Sam 24:1
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2Sam 24:1 David, tempted by Satan, forces Joab to number the people.
2Sam 24:5 The captains, in nine months and twenty days, bring the muster of thirteen hundred thousand fighting men.
2Sam 24:10 David repents, and having three plagues propounded by God, chooses the three days' pestilence.
2Sam 24:15 After the death of three score and ten thousand, David by prayer prevents the destruction of Jerusalem.
2Sam 24:18 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.
2Sam 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.
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
Go, number.
1Chr 27:23; 1Chr 27:24