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2 Samuel 24:2

2 Samuel 24:2

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · Canne, Browne, Blayney, Scott, and others · Public Domain

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Go now: 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.

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