1 Chronicles 21:2 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²And David said to Joab and to the rulers of the people, Go, number Israel from Beersheba even to Dan; and bring the number of them to me, that I may know it.

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Chronicles 27:23-24
But David took not the number of them from twenty years old and under: because the LORD had said he would increase Israel like to the stars of the heavens. …
2 Samuel 24:2-4
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 Beersheba, and number ye the people, that I may know the number of the people. …
2 Samuel 3:10
To translate the kingdom from the house of Saul, and to set up the throne of David over Israel and over Judah, from Dan even to Beersheba.
Proverbs 29:23
A man's pride shall bring him low: but honour shall uphold the humble in spirit.
Deuteronomy 8:13-17
And when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou hast is multiplied; …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-6)

Numbering the people, one would think, was no bad thing. Why should not the shepherd know the number of his flock? But God sees not as man sees. It is plain it was wrong in David to do it, and a great provocation to God, because he did it in the pride of his heart; and there is no sin that has in it more of contradiction and therefore more of offence to God than pride. The sin was David’s; he alon…