And again the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he moved David against them to say, Go, number Israel and Judah.
A.M.
2 Samuel 21:1 Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after …
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 has 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 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 And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.
James 1:13,14 Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot …
moved
2 Samuel 12:11 Thus said the LORD, Behold, I will raise up evil against you out …
2 Samuel 16:10 And the king said, What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah? …
Genesis 45:5 Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that you …
Genesis 50:20 But as for you, you thought evil against me; but God meant it to …
Exodus 7:3 And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders …
1 Samuel 26:19 Now therefore, I pray you, let my lord the king hear the words of …
1 Kings 22:20-23 And the LORD said, Who shall persuade Ahab, that he may go up and …
Ezekiel 14:9 And if the prophet be deceived when he has spoken a thing, I the …
Ezekiel 20:25 Why I gave them also statutes that were not good, and judgments whereby …
Acts 4:28 For to do whatever your hand and your counsel determined before to be done.
2 Thessalonians 2:11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they …
Go, number
1 Chronicles 27:23,24 But David took not the number of them from twenty years old and under…
For the king said to Joab the captain of the host, which was with him, Go now through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan even to Beersheba, and number ye the people, that I may know the number of the people.
Joab
2 Samuel 2:13 And Joab the son of Zeruiah, and the servants of David, went out, …
2 Samuel 8:16 And Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the host; and Jehoshaphat the …
2 Samuel 20:23 Now Joab was over all the host of Israel: and Benaiah the son of …
2 Samuel 23:37 Zelek the Ammonite, Nahari the Beerothite, armor bearer to Joab the …
Go now, etc. or, Compass now all
1 Chronicles 21:2 And David said to Joab and to the rulers of the people, Go, number …
from Dan
2 Samuel 3:10 To translate the kingdom from the house of Saul, and to set up the …
2 Samuel 17:11 Therefore I counsel that all Israel be generally gathered to you, …
Judges 20:1 Then all the children of Israel went out, and the congregation was …
and number We know not in what the sinfulness of this action consisted. Some think it was 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 apiece 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 may
Deuteronomy 8:13,14 And when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and …
2 Chronicles 32:25,26,31 But Hezekiah rendered not again according to the benefit done to …
Proverbs 29:23 A man's pride shall bring him low: but honor shall uphold the humble in spirit.
Jeremiah 17:5 Thus said the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusts in man, and makes …
2 Corinthians 12:7 And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance …
And Joab said unto the king, Now the LORD thy God add unto the people, how many soever they be, an hundredfold, and that the eyes of my lord the king may see it: but why doth my lord the king delight in this thing?
Notwithstanding the king's word prevailed against Joab, and against the captains of the host. And Joab and the captains of the host went out from the presence of the king, to number the people of Israel.
And they passed over Jordan, and pitched in Aroer, on the right side of the city that lieth in the midst of the river of Gad, and toward Jazer:
Aroer
Deuteronomy 2:36 From Aroer, which is by the brink of the river of Arnon, and from …
Joshua 13:9,16 From Aroer, that is on the bank of the river Arnon, and the city …
1 Samuel 30:28 And to them which were in Aroer, and to them which were in Siphmoth, …
Isaiah 17:2 The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which …
river, or, valley
Jazer
Numbers 32:1,3,35 Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great …
Isaiah 16:8,9 For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah: the lords …
Then they came to Gilead, and to the land of Tahtimhodshi; and they came to Danjaan, and about to Zidon,
Gilead
Genesis 31:21,47,48 So he fled with all that he had; and he rose up, and passed over …
Numbers 32:1,39 Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great …
land of Tahtim-hodshi. or, nether land newly inhabited
Dan-jaam
Joshua 19:47 And the coast of the children of Dan went out too little for them: …
Judges 18:29 And they called the name of the city Dan, after the name of Dan their …
Zidon
Genesis 10:15 And Canaan begat Sidon his first born, and Heth,
Joshua 11:8 And the LORD delivered them into the hand of Israel, who smote them, …
Joshua 19:28 And Hebron, and Rehob, and Hammon, and Kanah, even to great Zidon;
Judges 18:28 And there was no deliverer, because it was far from Zidon, and they …
And came to the strong hold of Tyre, and to all the cities of the Hivites, and of the Canaanites: and they went out to the south of Judah, even to Beersheba.
So when they had gone through all the land, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.
And Joab gave up the sum of the number of the people unto the king: and there were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men that drew the sword; and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand men.
And David's heart smote him after that he had numbered the people. And David said unto the LORD, I have sinned greatly in that I have done: and now, I beseech thee, O LORD, take away the iniquity of thy servant; for I have done very foolishly.
David's heart
1 Samuel 24:5 And it came to pass afterward, that David's heart smote him, because …
John 8:9 And they which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, …
1 John 3:20,21 For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knows …
I have sinned
2 Samuel 12:13 And David said to Nathan, I have sinned against the LORD. And Nathan …
1 Chronicles 21:8 And David said to God, I have sinned greatly, because I have done …
2 Chronicles 32:26 Notwithstanding Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, …
Job 33:27,28 He looks on men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that …
Psalm 32:5 I acknowledge my sin to you, and my iniquity have I not hid. I said, …
Proverbs 28:13 He that covers his sins shall not prosper: but whoever confesses …
Micah 7:8,9 Rejoice not against me, O my enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when …
1 John 1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our …
take away
Job 7:21 And why do you not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? …
Hosea 14:2 Take with you words, and turn to the LORD: say to him, Take away …
John 1:29 The next day John sees Jesus coming to him, and said, Behold the …
foolishly
2 Samuel 12:13 And David said to Nathan, I have sinned against the LORD. And Nathan …
Deuteronomy 32:6 Do you thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? is not …
1 Samuel 13:13 And Samuel said to Saul, You have done foolishly: you have not kept …
1 Samuel 26:21 Then said Saul, I have sinned: return, my son David: for I will no …
2 Chronicles 16:9 For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth…
Mark 7:22 Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil …
Titus 3:3 For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, …
For when David was up in the morning, the word of the LORD came unto the prophet Gad, David's seer, saying,
Go 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.
I offer
1 Chronicles 21:10,11 Go and tell David, saying, Thus said the LORD, I offer you three …
that I may
2 Samuel 12:9,10,14 Why have you despised the commandment of the LORD, to do evil in …
Leviticus 26:41,43 And that I also have walked contrary to them, and have brought them …
Job 5:17,18 Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects: therefore despise not …
Proverbs 3:12 For whom the LORD loves he corrects; even as a father the son in …
Hebrews 12:6-10 For whom the Lord loves he chastens, and whips every son whom he receives…
Revelation 3:19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
So Gad came to David, and told him, and said unto him, Shall seven years of famine come unto thee in thy land? or wilt thou flee three months before thine enemies, while they pursue thee? or that there be three days' pestilence in thy land? now advise, and see what answer I shall return to him that sent me.
seven
2 Samuel 21:1 Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after …
Leviticus 26:20 And your strength shall be spent in vain: for your land shall not …
1 Kings 17:1 And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said …
1 Chronicles 21:12 Either three years' famine; or three months to be destroyed before …
Ezekiel 14:13,21 Son of man, when the land sins against me by trespassing grievously, …
Luke 4:25 But I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days …
flee
Leviticus 26:17,36,37 And I will set my face against you, and you shall be slain before …
Deuteronomy 28:25,52 The LORD shall cause you to be smitten before your enemies: you shall …
three days
Leviticus 26:16,25 I also will do this to you; I will even appoint over you terror, …
Deuteronomy 28:22,27,35 The LORD shall smite you with a consumption, and with a fever, and …
Psalm 91:6 Nor for the pestilence that walks in darkness; nor for the destruction …
Ezekiel 14:19-21 Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my fury on …
And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let us fall now into the hand of the LORD; for his mercies are great: and let me not fall into the hand of man.
I am in
1 Samuel 13:6 When the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait, (for the people …
2 Kings 6:15 And when the servant of the man of God was risen early, and gone …
John 12:27 Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from …
Philippians 1:23 For I am in a strait between two, having a desire to depart, and …
for his
Exodus 34:6,7 And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The …
1 Chronicles 21:13 And David said to Gad, I am in a great strait: let me fall now into …
Psalm 51:1 Have mercy on me, O God, according to your loving kindness…
Psalm 86:5,15 For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous in mercy …
Psalm 103:8-14 The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy…
Psalm 119:156 Great are your tender mercies, O LORD: quicken me according to your judgments.
Psalm 145:9 The LORD is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works.
Isaiah 55:7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: …
Jonah 4:2 And he prayed to the LORD, and said, I pray you, O LORD, was not …
Micah 7:18 Who is a God like to you, that pardons iniquity, and passes by the …
great. or, many
let me not
2 Kings 13:3-7 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he delivered …
2 Chronicles 28:5-9 Why the LORD his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria; …
Psalm 106:41,42 And he gave them into the hand of the heathen; and they that hated …
Proverbs 12:10 A righteous man regards the life of his beast: but the tender mercies …
Isaiah 47:6 I was wroth with my people, I have polluted my inheritance, and given …
Zechariah 1:15 And I am very sore displeased with the heathen that are at ease: …
So the LORD sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning even to the time appointed: and there died of the people from Dan even to Beersheba seventy thousand men.
And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough: stay now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD was by the threshingplace of Araunah the Jebusite.
the angel
Exodus 12:23 For the LORD will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he …
2 Kings 19:35 And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went out…
1 Chronicles 21:15,16 And God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he was destroying, …
2 Chronicles 32:21 And the LORD sent an angel, which cut off all the mighty men of valor, …
Psalm 35:6 Let their way be dark and slippery: and let the angel of the LORD …
Acts 12:23 And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave …
repented
Genesis 6:6 And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it …
1 Samuel 15:11 It repents me that I have set up Saul to be king: for he is turned …
Psalm 78:38 But he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed …
Psalm 90:13 Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent you concerning your servants.
Psalm 135:14 For the LORD will judge his people, and he will repent himself concerning …
Jeremiah 18:7-10 At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning …
Joel 2:13,14 And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn to the LORD …
Amos 7:3,6 The LORD repented for this: It shall not be, said the LORD…
Habakkuk 3:2 O LORD, I have heard your speech, and was afraid: O LORD, revive …
It is enough
Exodus 9:28 Entreat the LORD (for it is enough) that there be no more mighty …
1 Kings 19:4 But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came …
Isaiah 27:8 In measure, when it shoots forth, you will debate with it: he stays …
Isaiah 40:1,2 Comfort you, comfort you my people, said your God…
Isaiah 57:16 For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth: …
Joel 2:13,14 And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn to the LORD …
Mark 14:41 And he comes the third time, and said to them, Sleep on now, and …
2 Corinthians 2:6 Sufficient to such a man is this punishment, which was inflicted of many.
Araunah
2 Samuel 24:18 And Gad came that day to David, and said to him, Go up, raise an …
1 Chronicles 21:15 And God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he was destroying, …
2 Chronicles 3:1 Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at Jerusalem in …
Ornan
the Jebusite
2 Samuel 5:8 And David said on that day, Whoever gets up to the gutter, and smites …
Genesis 10:16 And the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgasite,
Joshua 15:63 As for the Jebusites the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the children of …
Judges 1:21 And the children of Benjamin did not drive out the Jebusites that …
Judges 19:11 And when they were by Jebus, the day was far spent; and the servant …
Zechariah 9:7 And I will take away his blood out of his mouth, and his abominations …
And David spake unto the LORD when he saw the angel that smote the people, and said, Lo, I have sinned, and I have done wickedly: but these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, be against me, and against my father's house.
spake
1 Chronicles 21:16,17 And David lifted up his eyes, and saw the angel of the LORD stand …
Lo, I have sinned
2 Samuel 24:10 And David's heart smote him after that he had numbered the people. …
Job 7:20 I have sinned; what shall I do to you, O you preserver of men? why …
Job 42:6 Why I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.
Psalm 51:2-5 Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin…
Isaiah 6:5 Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean …
these sheep
1 Kings 22:17 And he said, I saw all Israel scattered on the hills, as sheep that …
Psalm 44:11 You have given us like sheep appointed for meat; and have scattered …
Psalm 74:1 O God, why have you cast us off for ever? why does your anger smoke …
Ezekiel 34:2-6,23,24 Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and …
Zechariah 13:7 Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is …
let thine
Genesis 44:33 Now therefore, I pray you, let your servant abide instead of the …
John 10:11,12 I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd gives his life for the sheep…
1 Peter 2:24,25 Who his own self bore our sins in his own body on the tree, that …
And Gad came that day to David, and said unto him, Go up, rear an altar unto the LORD in the threshingfloor of Araunah the Jebusite.
And David, according to the saying of Gad, went up as the LORD commanded.
And Araunah looked, and saw the king and his servants coming on toward him: and Araunah went out, and bowed himself before the king on his face upon the ground.
bowed
2 Samuel 9:8 And he bowed himself, and said, What is your servant, that you should …
Genesis 18:2 And he lift up his eyes and looked, and, see, three men stood by …
Ruth 2:10 Then she fell on her face, and bowed herself to the ground, and said …
1 Chronicles 21:20,21 And Ornan turned back, and saw the angel; and his four sons with …
And Araunah said, Wherefore is my lord the king come to his servant? And David said, To buy the threshingfloor of thee, to build an altar unto the LORD, that the plague may be stayed from the people.
Wherefore
2 Samuel 24:3,18 And Joab said to the king, Now the LORD your God add to the people, …
To buy
Genesis 23:8-16 And he communed with them, saying, If it be your mind that I should …
1 Chronicles 21:22 Then David said to Ornan, Grant me the place of this threshing floor, …
Jeremiah 32:6-14 And Jeremiah said, The word of the LORD came to me, saying…
the plague
2 Samuel 21:3-14 Why David said to the Gibeonites, What shall I do for you? and with …
Numbers 16:47-50 And Aaron took as Moses commanded, and ran into the middle of the …
Numbers 25:8 And he went after the man of Israel into the tent, and thrust both …
Psalm 106:30 Then stood up Phinehas, and executed judgment: and so the plague was stayed.
And Araunah said unto David, Let my lord the king take and offer up what seemeth good unto him: behold, here be oxen for burnt sacrifice, and threshing instruments and other instruments of the oxen for wood.
All these things did Araunah, as a king, give unto the king. And Araunah said unto the king, The LORD thy God accept thee.
as a king
Psalm 45:16 Instead of your fathers shall be your children, whom you may make …
Isaiah 32:8 But the liberal devises liberal things; and by liberal things shall he stand.
The Lord
Job 42:8,9 Therefore take to you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to …
Psalm 20:3,4 Remember all your offerings, and accept your burnt sacrifice; Selah…
Isaiah 60:7 All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered together to you, the rams …
Ezekiel 20:40,41 For in my holy mountain, in the mountain of the height of Israel, …
Hosea 8:13 They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of my offerings, and eat …
Romans 15:30,31 Now I beseech you, brothers, for the Lord Jesus Christ's sake, and …
1 Timothy 2:1,2 I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, …
1 Peter 2:5 You also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy …
And the king said unto Araunah, Nay; but I will surely buy it of thee at a price: neither will I offer burnt offerings unto the LORD my God of that which doth cost me nothing. So David bought the threshingfloor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.
And David built there an altar unto the LORD, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. So the LORD was intreated for the land, and the plague was stayed from Israel.
