2 Samuel 24
Overview
24:1 David, tempted by Satan, forces Joab to number the people;
24:5 The captains, in nine months and twenty days, bring the muster of thirteen hundred thousand fighting men;
24:10 David repents, and having three plagues propounded by God, chooses the three days' pestilence;
24:15 After the death of three score and ten thousand, David by prayer prevents the destruction of Jerusalem;
24:18 David, by God's direction, purchases Araunah's threshing floor; where having sacrificed, the plague stays. Verse 1am 2987, bc 1017, An, Ex, Is, 474again2 Samuel 21:1-14 heThis 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 Chronicles 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. James 1:13, 1:14 moved2 Samuel 12:11, 16:10; Genesis 45:5, 50:20; Exodus 7:3; 1 Samuel 26:19; 1 Kings 22:20-23; Ezekiel 14:9, 20:25; Acts 4:28; 2 Thessalonians 2:11 number1 Chronicles 27:23, 27:24ReciprocalGenesis 22:1 - God; Exodus 30:12 - takest; Leviticus 10:6 - lest wrath; Numbers 1:2 - Take ye the sum; 1:19 - General; 14:12 - smite; 16:22 - one man sin; Joshua 7:1 - the anger; 22:18 - he will be; 1 Kings 11:14 - the Lord; 12:15 - the cause; 2 Kings 3:6 - numbered; 1 Chronicles 5:26 - stirred up; 7:2 - whose number; 7:40 - the number; 21:7 - he smote; 21:17 - what have; 2 Chronicles 21:16 - the Lord; 24:18 - wrath; 32:25 - General; Jeremiah 52:3 - through Verse 2Joab2 Samuel 2:13, 8:16, 20:23, 23:37 Go nowetc. or, Compass now all, 1 Chronicles 21:2 from Dan2 Samuel 3:10, 17:11; Judges 20:1 and numberWe 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.that I mayDeuteronomy 8:13, 8:14; 2 Chronicles 32:25, 32:26, 32:31; Proverbs 29:23; Jeremiah 17:5; 2 Corinthians 12:7ReciprocalExodus 30:12 - no plague; 2 Samuel 24:7 - to Beersheba; 24:15 - from Dan; Ezekiel 48:1 - Dan Verse 32 Samuel 10:12; 1 Chronicles 21:3, 21:4; Psalm 115:14; Proverbs 14:28; Isaiah 60:5ReciprocalDeuteronomy 1:11 - make you; 2 Samuel 24:21 - Wherefore; 1 Kings 1:37 - and make; 1:48 - mine eyes; 2 Chronicles 24:6 - Why hast thou; Jonah 1:10 - Why Verse 4the king's1 Chronicles 21:4; Ecclesiastes 8:4 went outExodus 1:17; Acts 5:29

Verse 5AroerDeuteronomy 2:36; Joshua 13:9, 13:16; 1 Samuel 30:28; Isaiah 17:2 riveror, valleyJazerNumbers 32:1, 32:3, 32:35; Isaiah 16:8, 16:9ReciprocalDeuteronomy 3:16 - Reubenites; Jeremiah 48:19 - Aroer Verse 6GileadGenesis 31:21, 31:47, 31:48; Numbers 32:1, 32:39 land of Tahtimhodshior, nether land newly inhabited, Dan-jaan. Joshua 19:47; Judges 18:29 ZidonGenesis 10:15; Joshua 11:8, 19:28; Judges 18:28Reciprocal1 Chronicles 5:10 - the Hagarites Verse 7TyreJoshua 19:29 to Beersheba2 Samuel 24:2; Genesis 21:31-33Reciprocal13:1 - the south; Zechariah 9:3 - build Verse 9eight hundred thousand1 Chronicles 21:5, 21:6, 27:23, 27:24ReciprocalGenesis 49:8 - thy hand; Numbers 1:3 - able; 1:26 - General; 1:27 - General; 1:46 - General; Judges 20:2 - drew sword; 1 Samuel 11:8 - the children Verse 10David's heart1 Samuel 24:5; John 8:9; 1 John 3:20, 3:21 I have sinned2 Samuel 12:13; 1 Chronicles 21:8; 2 Chronicles 32:26; Job 33:27, 33:28; Psalm 32:5; Proverbs 28:13; Micah 7:8, 7:9; 1 John 1:9 take awayJob 7:21; Hosea 14:2; John 1:29 foolishly2 Samuel 12:13; Deuteronomy 32:6; 1 Samuel 13:13, 26:21; 2 Chronicles 16:9; Mark 7:22; Titus 3:3ReciprocalLeviticus 4:22 - a ruler hath sinned; Numbers 12:11 - lay not; Judges 10:15 - We have sinned; 2 Samuel 24:17 - I have sinned; 2 Chronicles 16:10 - wroth; 32:25 - General; Job 2:10 - as one; 40:4 - Behold; Jeremiah 14:20 - for; Habakkuk 3:2 - in wrath; Mark 14:72 - Peter; Ephesians 5:15 - not; Habakkuk 3:1 - he appeared Verse 11Gad1 Samuel 22:5; 1 Chronicles 2:19, 29:29 seer1 Samuel 9:9Reciprocal22:4 - in the hold; 2 Samuel 12:1 - the Lord; 15:27 - a seer; 20:26 - chief ruler; 24:18 - Gad; 1 Chronicles 21:9 - Gad; 2 Chronicles 29:25 - Gad; Jeremiah 22:1 - Go; Jonah 1:11 - What Verse 12I offer1 Chronicles 21:10, 21:11 that I may2 Samuel 12:9, 12:10, 12:14; Leviticus 26:41, 26:43; Job 5:17, 5:18; Proverbs 3:12; Habakkuk 3:1-12:10; Revelation 3:19ReciprocalNumbers 14:12 - smite; Judges 3:20 - I have; Jeremiah 22:1 - Go Verse 13seven2 Samuel 21:1; Leviticus 26:20; 1 Kings 17:1-7; 1 Chronicles 21:12; Ezekiel 14:13, 14:21; Luke 4:25 fleeLeviticus 26:17, 26:36, 26:37; Deuteronomy 28:25, 28:52 three days'Leviticus 26:16, 26:25; Deuteronomy 28:22, 28:27, 28:35; Psalm 91:6; Ezekiel 14:19-21ReciprocalGenesis 41:30 - seven years; Exodus 7:25 - General; 1 Samuel 25:12 - came; 2 Samuel 23:39 - thirty and seven in all; 1 Kings 8:35 - heaven; 13:21 - thou hast disobeyed; 2 Kings 8:1 - seven years; 2 Chronicles 7:13 - I send; John 1:22 - that Verse 14I am in1 Samuel 13:6; 2 Kings 6:15; John 12:27; Philippians 1:23 for hisExodus 34:6, 34:7; 1 Chronicles 21:13; Psalm 51:1, 86:5, 86:15, 103:8-14, 119:156, 145:9; Isaiah 55:7; Jonah 4:2; Micah 7:18 greator, manylet me not2 Kings 13:3-7; 2 Chronicles 28:5-9; Psalm 106:41, 106:42; Proverbs 12:10; Isaiah 47:6; Zechariah 1:15ReciprocalJoshua 9:25 - we are; Judges 10:15 - deliver; 2 Samuel 24:25 - So the Lord; 1 Kings 20:6 - and they shall search; 1 Chronicles 21:12 - Now therefore; 2 Chronicles 12:5 - left you; Proverbs 6:3 - when; Jeremiah 39:17 - of whom; Ezekiel 23:24 - I will set; Luke 9:44 - into Verse 15the LordNumbers 16:46-49, 25:9; 1 Samuel 6:19; 1 Chronicles 21:14, 27:4; Matthew 24:7; Revelation 6:8 from Dan2 Samuel 24:2 seventy thousand menIsaiah 37:36ReciprocalLeviticus 10:6 - lest wrath; 26:25 - I will send; Deuteronomy 28:21 - General; 1 Kings 4:25 - from Dan; 1 Chronicles 21:2 - Beersheba; Psalm 91:3 - and from; 91:6 - destruction; Ezekiel 14:19 - if I Verse 16the angelExodus 12:23; 2 Kings 19:35; 1 Chronicles 21:15, 21:16; 2 Chronicles 32:21; Psalm 35:6; Acts 12:23 repentedGenesis 6:6; 1 Samuel 15:11; Psalm 78:38, 90:13, 135:14; Jeremiah 18:7-10; Joel 2:13, 2:14; Amos 7:3, 7:6; Habakkuk 3:2 It is enoughExodus 9:28; 1 Kings 19:4; Isaiah 27:8, 40:1, 40:2, 57:16; Joel 2:13, 2:14; Mark 14:41; 2 Corinthians 2:6 Araunah2 Samuel 24:18; 1 Chronicles 21:15; 2 Chronicles 3:1, Ornanthe Jebusite2 Samuel 5:8; Genesis 10:16; Joshua 15:63; Judges 1:21, 19:11; Zechariah 9:7ReciprocalExodus 32:14 - General; Numbers 16:48 - General; Joshua 11:3 - the Jebusite; 1 Chronicles 1:14 - Jebusite; 21:27 - the Lord; Job 33:22 - his life; Psalm 106:45 - repented; Proverbs 29:8 - wise; Isaiah 37:36 - the angel; Jeremiah 26:19 - and the Lord; 42:10 - for I; Hosea 11:8 - Mine; 1 Corinthians 10:10 - destroyer Verse 17spake1 Chronicles 21:16, 21:17 I have sinned2 Samuel 24:10; Job 7:20, 42:6; Psalm 51:2-5; Isaiah 6:5 these sheep1 Kings 22:17; Psalm 44:11, 74:1; Ezekiel 34:2-6, 34:23, 34:24; Zechariah 13:7 let thineGenesis 44:33; John 10:11, 10:12; 1 Peter 2:24, 2:25ReciprocalGenesis 18:23 - Wilt; 20:7 - pray; 38:26 - She hath; Numbers 16:22 - one man sin; 16:48 - General; Job 19:4 - mine; Proverbs 29:8 - wise; Jonah 1:12 - Take; Micah 7:9 - bear; Acts 12:23 - the angel; 26:31 - This man; Philippians 2:26 - ye had Verse 18Gad2 Samuel 24:11; 1 Chronicles 21:18-30, threshing floor, These, among the ancient Jews, were only round, level plats of ground in the open air, as they are to this day in the East, where the corn was trodden out by oxen.AraunahHeb. Araniah, 2 Samuel 24:16ReciprocalGenesis 10:16 - Jebusite; Exodus 27:1 - altar of shittim wood; Judges 6:26 - build; 21:4 - built there; 1 Samuel 6:14 - offered; 2 Samuel 24:21 - Wherefore; 1 Chronicles 21:15 - Ornan; 21:21 - bowed himself; 22:1 - This is the house; 2 Chronicles 3:1 - Ornan Verse 19as the LordGenesis 6:22; 1 Chronicles 21:19; 2 Chronicles 20:20, 36:16; Nehemiah 9:26; Habakkuk 3:1ReciprocalGenesis 41:27 - seven years of famine Verse 20bowed2 Samuel 9:8; Genesis 18:2; Ruth 2:10; 1 Chronicles 21:20, 21:21ReciprocalGenesis 23:11 - my lord Verse 21Wherefore2 Samuel 24:3, 24:18 To buyGenesis 23:8-16; 1 Chronicles 21:22; Jeremiah 32:6-14 the plague2 Samuel 21:3-14; Numbers 16:47-50, 25:8; Psalm 106:30

Verse 22Let my lordGenesis 23:11; 1 Chronicles 21:22 be oxen1 Samuel 6:14; 1 Kings 19:21Reciprocal1 Chronicles 21:23 - Take it Verse 23as a kingPsalm 45:16; Isaiah 32:8 The LordJob 42:8, 42:9; Psalm 20:3, 20:4; Isaiah 60:7; Ezekiel 20:40, 20:41; Hosea 8:13; Romans 15:30, 15:31; 1 Timothy 2:1, 2:2; 1 Peter 2:5ReciprocalGenesis 4:7 - If thou doest well; Deuteronomy 33:11 - accept; 1 Chronicles 21:23 - Take it Verse 24NayGenesis 23:13; 1 Chronicles 21:24; Malachi 1:12-14; Romans 12:17 So David1 Chronicles 21:25, 22:1ReciprocalGenesis 23:20 - were; Exodus 34:20 - none Verse 25built thereGenesis 8:20, 22:9; 1 Samuel 7:9, 7:17 So the Lord2 Samuel 24:14, 21:14; 1 Chronicles 21:26, 21:27; Lamentations 3:32, 3:33 ReciprocalLeviticus 17:8 - that offereth; Numbers 16:48 - General; 25:8 - So the plague; Judges 21:4 - built there; 1 Samuel 6:14 - offered; 1 Chronicles 21:25 - General