1And again the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he moved David against them to say, Go, number Israel and Judah.
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And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.
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. …
Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man: …
And the LORD said, Who shall persuade Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramothgilead? And one said on this manner, and another said on that manner. …
But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-9)Here we have, I. The orders which David gave to Joab to number the people of Israel and Judah, 2 Sam. 24:1 , 2 . Two things here seem strange:—1. The sinfulness of this. What harm was there in it? Did not Moses twice number the people without any crime? Does not political arithmetic come in among the other policies of a prince? Should not the shepherd know the number of his sheep? Does not the Son…
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