the Week of Proper 22 / Ordinary 27
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2 Samuel 24:1
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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 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
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
number: 1 Chronicles 27:23, 1 Chronicles 27:24
Reciprocal: Genesis 22:1 - God Exodus 30:12 - takest Leviticus 10:6 - lest wrath Numbers 1:2 - Take ye the sum Numbers 1:19 - General Numbers 14:12 - smite Numbers 16:22 - one man sin Joshua 7:1 - the anger Joshua 22:18 - he will be 1 Kings 11:14 - the Lord 1 Kings 12:15 - the cause 2 Kings 3:6 - numbered 1 Chronicles 5:26 - stirred up 1 Chronicles 7:2 - whose number 1 Chronicles 7:40 - the number 1 Chronicles 21:7 - he smote 1 Chronicles 21:17 - what have 2 Chronicles 21:16 - the Lord 2 Chronicles 24:18 - wrath 2 Chronicles 32:25 - General Jeremiah 52:3 - through
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"I will make you into a great nation and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing.
"I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing.
And I will make you a great nation,And I will bless you,And make your name great;And so you shall be a blessing;
And I will make you a great nation, And I will bless you, And make your name great; And so you shall be a blessing;
And I will make of thee a great people, and wyll blesse thee, and make thy name great, that thou shalt be [euen] a blessyng.
I will build a great nation from you. I will bless you and make your name famous. People will use your name to bless other people.
And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.
and Y schal make thee in to a greet folk, and Y schal blisse thee, and Y schal magnyfie thi name, and thou schalt be blessid;
And I will make of thee a great nation, and I wil blesse thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt bee a blessing.
And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And again the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel,.... It had been kindled, and appeared before in sending a three years' famine among them for Saul's ill usage of the Gibeonites, 2 Samuel 21:1; and now it broke forth again, either for some secret sins committed, as Kimchi suggests, or for the rebellion of Absalom, and the insurrection of Sheba, in which multitudes of them joined; so Abarbinel; no doubt there was cause for it, though it is not expressed:
and he moved David against them; not the Lord, but Satan, as may be supplied from 1 Chronicles 21:1; or "it moved him"; the anger of the Lord, as the last mentioned writer interprets it; or the heart of David, as Ben Gersom; that is, the evil imagination of his heart, as Kimchi; the Lord left him to the corruption of his nature, sometimes called Satan, 2 Corinthians 12:7; which wrought powerfully in him, and stirred him up to take a step contrary to the interest of Israel, and what was prejudicial to them, as the event showed: it moved him to say; to Joab and his captains:
go, number Israel and Judah: not all the individuals, but such as were fit for war, able to bear arms, see 2 Samuel 24:9.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
And again the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel - This sentence is the heading of the whole chapter, which goes on to describe the sin which kindled this anger, namely, the numbering of the people 1 Chronicles 21:7-8; 1 Chronicles 27:24. There is no note of time, except that the word “again” shows that these events happened “after” those of 2 Samuel 21:0. (Compare also 2Sa 24:25; 2 Samuel 21:14.)
And he moved David - In 1 Chronicles 21:1 the statement is, “and an adversary” (not “Satan,” as the King James Version, since there is no article prefixed, as in Job 1:6; Job 2:1, etc.) “stood up against Israel and moved David,” just as 1Ki 11:14, 1 Kings 11:23, 1 Kings 11:25 first Hadad, and then Rezon, is said to have been “an adversary” (Satan) to Solomon and to Israel. Hence, our text should be rendered, “For one moved David against them.” We are not told whose advice it was, but some one, who proved himself an enemy to the best interests of David and Israel, urged the king to number the people.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
CHAPTER XXIV
David is tempted by Satan to number Israel and Judah, 1.
Joab remonstrates against it, but the king determines that it
shall be done; and Joab and the captains accomplish the work,
and bring the sum total to the king: viz.: eight hundred
thousand warriors in Israel, and five hundred thousand in
Judah, 2-9.
David is convinced that he has done wrong; and the prophet Gad
is sent to him, to give him his choice of three judgments,
one of which God is determined to inflict upon the nation,
10-13.
David humbles himself before God; and a pestilence is sent,
which destroys seventy thousand men, 14, 15.
The angel of the Lord being about to destroy Jerusalem, David
makes intercession, and the plague is stayed, 16, 17.
Gad directs him to build an altar to the Lord on the
threshing-floor of Araunah, where the plague was stayed, 18.
He purchases this place for the purpose, and offers
burnt-offerings and peace-offerings. 19-25.
NOTES ON CHAP. XXIV
Verse 2 Samuel 24:1. He moved David against them — God could not be angry with David for numbering the people if he moved him to do it; but in the parallel place (1 Chronicles 21:1) it is expressly said, Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel. David, in all probability, slackening in his piety and confidence toward God, and meditating some extension of his dominions without the Divine counsel or command, was naturally curious to know whether the number of fighting men in his empire was sufficient for the work which he had projected. See more on 2 Samuel 24:10. He therefore orders Joab and the captains to take an exact account of all the effective men in Israel and Judah. God is justly displeased with this conduct, and determines that the props of his vain ambition shall be taken away, either by famine, war, or pestilence.
