2 Samuel 24:1
Again the anger of the Lord burned against Israel, and He stirred up David against them, saying, “Go and take a census of Israel and Judah.”
And again the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he moved David against them to say, Go, number Israel and Judah.
Again the Lord’s anger burned against Israel, and he moved David against them, saying, “Go, count Israel and Judah.”
And again the anger of Jehovah was kindled against Israel, and he moved David against them, saying, Go, number Israel and Judah.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- An
- A.M. 2987. B.C. 1017. Ex. Is. 474. again.
- 2 Samuel 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.
- James 1:13, 14
- moved
- 2 Samuel 12:11; 2 Samuel 16:10; Genesis 45:5; Genesis 50:20; Exodus 7:3; 1 Samuel 26:19; 1 Kings 22:20–23; Ezekiel 14:9; Ezekiel 20:25; Acts 4:28; 2 Thessalonians 2:11
- Go, number
- 1 Chronicles 27:23, 24