Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Samuel 24

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2 Samuel 24 . 1 , David , tempted by Satan , forces Joab to number the people; 2 Samuel 24 . 5 , The captains , in nine months and twenty days , bring the muster of thirteen hundred thousand fighting men; 2 Samuel 24 . 10 , David repents , and having three plagues propounded by God , chooses the three days’ pestilence; 2 Samuel 24 . 15 , After the death of three score and ten thousand , David by prayer prevents the destruction of Jerusalem; 2 Samuel 24 . 18 , David , by God’s direction , purchases Araunah’s threshing floor; where having sacrificed , the plague stays.

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."

2 Samuel 24:1 · BSB

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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 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
  • James 1:14

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2 Samuel 24:2

So the king said to Joab the commander of his army, who (was) with him, “Go now throughout the tribes of Israel from Dan to Beersheba and register the troops, so that I may know their number.”

2 Samuel 24:2 · BSB

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etc. or , Compass now all

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and number We 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.

2 Samuel 24:3

But Joab replied to the king, “May the LORD your God multiply the troops a hundred times and may the eyes of my lord the king see (it). But why does my lord the king want to do such a thing?”

2 Samuel 24:3 · BSB

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2 Samuel 24:4

Nevertheless, the king’s word prevailed against Joab and against the commanders of the army. So Joab and the commanders of the army departed from the presence of the king to count the troops of Israel.

2 Samuel 24:4 · BSB

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2 Samuel 24:5

They crossed the Jordan and camped near Aroer, south of the town in the middle of the valley, and proceeded toward Gad and Jazer.

2 Samuel 24:5 · BSB

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2 Samuel 24:6

Then they went to Gilead and the land of Tahtim-hodshi, and on to Dan-jaan and around to Sidon.

2 Samuel 24:6 · BSB

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or , nether land newly inhabited , Dan-jaan

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2 Samuel 24:7

They went toward the fortress of Tyre and all the cities of the Hivites and Canaanites. Finally, they went on to the Negev of Judah, (to) Beersheba.

2 Samuel 24:7 · BSB

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2 Samuel 24:9

And Joab reported to the king the total number of the troops. In Israel there were 800,000 {} men of valor who drew the sword, and in Judah there were 500,000.

2 Samuel 24:9 · BSB

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2 Samuel 24:10

After (David) had numbered the troops, (his) conscience was stricken and he said to the LORD, “I have sinned greatly in what I have done. Now, O LORD, I beg You to take away the iniquity of Your servant, for I have acted very foolishly.”

2 Samuel 24:10 · BSB

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2 Samuel 24:11

When David got up in the morning, a Revelation from the LORD had come to Gad the prophet, David’s seer:

2 Samuel 24:11 · BSB

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2 Samuel 24:12

“Go and tell David that this is what the LORD says: ‘ I am offering you three (options). Choose one and I will carry it out

2 Samuel 24:12 · BSB

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2 Samuel 24:13

So Gad went and said to David, “Do you choose to endure three years of famine in your land, three months of fleeing the pursuit of your enemies, or three days of plague upon your land? Now then, think it over and decide how I should reply to Him who sent me.”

2 Samuel 24:13 · BSB

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2 Samuel 24:14

David answered Gad, deeply distressed. Please, let us fall into the hand of the LORD, for His mercies (are) great; but do not let me fall into the hands of men.”

2 Samuel 24:14 · BSB

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great or , many

2 Samuel 24:15

So the LORD sent a plague upon Israel from that morning until the appointed time, and seventy thousand of the people from Dan to Beersheba died.

2 Samuel 24:15 · BSB

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2 Samuel 24:16

But when the angel stretched out his hand to destroy Jerusalem, the LORD relented from the calamity and said to the angel who was destroying the people, “Enough! Withdraw your hand now!” At that time the angel of the LORD was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

2 Samuel 24:16 · BSB

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2 Samuel 24:17

When David saw the angel striking down the people, he said to the LORD, “Surely I, (the shepherd), have sinned and acted wickedly. But these sheep, what have they done? Please, let Your hand fall upon and my father’s house.”

2 Samuel 24:17 · BSB

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2 Samuel 24:18

And that day Gad came to David and said “Go up and build an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.”

2 Samuel 24:18 · BSB

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  • 2 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

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2 Samuel 24:19

So David went up at the word of Gad, just as the LORD had commanded.

2 Samuel 24:19 · BSB

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2 Samuel 24:20

When Araunah looked out and saw the king and his servants coming toward him, he went out and bowed facedown before the king.

2 Samuel 24:20 · BSB

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2 Samuel 24:21

“Why has my lord the king come to his servant?” Araunah said. “To buy your threshing floor,” David replied, “that I may build an altar to the LORD, so that the plague upon the people may be halted.”

2 Samuel 24:21 · BSB

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2 Samuel 24:22

Araunah said to David, “My lord the king may take whatever (seems) good and offer it up. Here are the oxen for a burnt offering and the threshing sledges and ox yokes for the wood.

2 Samuel 24:22 · BSB

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2 Samuel 24:23

O king, Araunah gives all these to the king.” (He) also said to the king, “May the LORD your God accept you.”

2 Samuel 24:23 · BSB

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2 Samuel 24:24

“No,” replied the king -, “I insist on paying a price, for I will not offer to the LORD my God burnt offerings that cost me nothing.” So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.

2 Samuel 24:24 · BSB

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2 Samuel 24:25

And there he built an altar to the LORD and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. Then the LORD answered the prayers on behalf of the land, and the plague upon Israel was halted.

2 Samuel 24:25 · BSB

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge is the classical cross-reference layer — centuries of catchword parallels beneath the site’s quotations, allusions, and echoes. Every reference above also flows into the wider web of connections.

In the wider web5 threads
Intertextuality Pairs
Allusions 2 Samuel 24:1 → Exodus 30:11, 2 Samuel 24:1 → Exodus 30:11-16, 2 Samuel 24:1 → Numbers 1:2, 2 Samuel 24:1 → Numbers 1:2-3
Trajectories
Census Ransom (Royal Accountability)
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