2 Samuel 24:12 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹²Go and say unto David, Thus saith the LORD, I offer thee three things; choose thee one of them, that I may do it unto thee.

2 Samuel 24:12 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 3:12
For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.
Hebrews 12:6-10
For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. …
Revelation 3:19
As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
2 Samuel 12:9-10
Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the LORD, to do evil in his sight? thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon. …
Job 5:17-18
Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty: …

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Commentary

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

(vv. 10-17)

We have here David repenting of the sin and yet punished for it, God repenting of the judgment and David thereby made more penitent. I. Here is David’s penitent reflection upon and confession of his sin in numbering the people. While the thing was in doing, during all those nine months, we do not find that David was sensible of his sin, for had he been so he would have countermanded the orders he…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 12)

10-13. David’s heart smote him after that he had numbered the people. And David said unto the Lord, I have sinned--The act of numbering the people was not in itself sinful; for Moses did it by the express authority of God. But David acted not only independently of such order or sanction, but from motives unworthy of the delegated king of Israel; from pride and vainglory; from self-confidence and d…