* Joab.
2:13 8:16 20:23 23:37
* Go now, etc. or, Compass now all.
1Ch 21:2
* from Dan.
3:10 17:11 Jud 20:1
* 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.
* that I may.
De 8:13,14 2Ch 32:25,26,31 Pr 29:23 Jer 17:5 2Co 12:7
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