TSK - 2 SAMUEL 24

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


VERSE 1
- A.M. 2987.  B.C. 1017.  An. Ex. Is. 474.  again.
   * 2Sa 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
  Ch 1 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.

   * Jas 13 1:13,14
- moved.
   * 2Sa 12:11; 16:10 Ge 45:5; 50:20 Ex 7:3 1Sa 26:19 1Ki 22:20-23
   * Eze 14:9; 20:25 Ac 4:28 2Th 2:11
- Go, number.
   * 1Ch 27:23,24


VERSE 2 
 - Joab.
   * 2Sa 2:13; 8:16; 20:23; 23:37
- Go now, etc.  or, Compass now all.
   * 1Ch 21:2
- from Dan.
   * 2Sa 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

VERSE 3
    * 2Sa 10:12 1Ch 21:3,4 Ps 115:14 Pr 14:28 Isa 60:5


VERSE 4 
 - the king's.
   * 1Ch 21:4 Ec 8:4
- went out.
   * Ex 1:17 Ac 5:29


VERSE 5 
 - Aroer.
   * De 2:36 Jos 13:9,16 1Sa 30:28 Isa 17:2
- river.  or, valley.  Jazer.
   * Nu 32:1,3,35 Isa 16:8,9


VERSE 6 
 - Gilead.
   * Ge 31:21,47,48 Nu 32:1,39
- land of Tahtim-hodshi.  or, nether land newly inhabited.
  Dan-jaan.
   * Jos 19:47 Jud 18:29
- Zidon.
   * Ge 10:15 Jos 11:8; 19:28 Jud 18:28


VERSE 7 
 - Tyre.
   * Jos 19:29
- to Beer-sheba.
   * :2 Ge 21:31-33

VERSE 8


VERSE 9 
 - eight hundred thousand.
   * 1Ch 21:5,6; 27:23,24


VERSE 10 
 - David's heart.
   * 1Sa 24:5 Joh 8:9 1Jo 3:20,21
- I have sinned.
   * 2Sa 12:13 1Ch 21:8 2Ch 32:26 Job 33:27,28 Ps 32:5 Pr 28:13
   * Mic 7:8,9 1Jo 1:9
- take away.
   * Job 7:21 Ho 14:2 Joh 1:29
- foolishly.
   * 2Sa 12:13 De 32:6 1Sa 13:13; 26:21 2Ch 16:9 Mr 7:22 Tit 3:3


VERSE 11 
 - Gad.
   * 1Sa 22:5 1Ch 2:19; 29:29
- seer.
   * 1Sa 9:9


VERSE 12 
 - I offer.
   * 1Ch 21:10,11
- that I may.
   * 2Sa 12:9,10,14 Le 26:41,43 Job 5:17,18 Pr 3:12 Heb 12:6-10
   * Re 3:19


VERSE 13 
 - seven.
   * 2Sa 21:1 Le 26:20 1Ki 17:1-7 1Ch 21:12 Eze 14:13,21 Lu 4:25
- flee.
   * Le 26:17,36,37 De 28:25,52
- three days.
   * Le 26:16,25 De 28:22,27,35 Ps 91:6 Eze 14:19-21


VERSE 14 
 - I am in.
   * 1Sa 13:6 2Ki 6:15 Joh 12:27 Php 1:23
- for his.
   * Ex 34:6,7 1Ch 21:13 Ps 51:1; 86:5,15; 103:8-14; 119:156; 145:9
   * Isa 55:7 Jon 4:2 Mic 7:18
- great.  or, many.  let me not.
   * 2Ki 13:3-7 2Ch 28:5-9 Ps 106:41,42 Pr 12:10 Isa 47:6 Zec 1:15


VERSE 15 
 - the Lord.
   * Nu 16:46-49; 25:9 1Sa 6:19 1Ch 21:14; 27:4 Mt 24:7 Re 6:8
- from Dan.  See on ver.
   * :2
- seventy thousand men.
   * Isa 37:36


VERSE 16 
 - the angel.
   * Ex 12:23 2Ki 19:35 1Ch 21:15,16 2Ch 32:21 Ps 35:6 Ac 12:23
- repented.
   * Ge 6:6 1Sa 15:11 Ps 78:38; 90:13; 135:14 Jer 18:7-10
   * Joe 2:13,14 Am 7:3,6 Hab 3:2
- It is enough.
   * Ex 9:28 1Ki 19:4 Isa 27:8; 40:1,2; 57:16 Joe 2:13,14 Mr 14:41
   * 2Co 2:6
- Araunah.
   * :18 1Ch 21:15 2Ch 3:1
- Ornan.  the Jebusite.
   * 2Sa 5:8 Ge 10:16 Jos 15:63 Jud 1:21; 19:11 Zec 9:7


VERSE 17 
 - spake.
   * 1Ch 21:16,17
- Lo, I have sinned.
   * :10 Job 7:20; 42:6 Ps 51:2-5 Isa 6:5
- these sheep.
   * 1Ki 22:17 Ps 44:11; 74:1 Eze 34:2-6,23,24 Zec 13:7
- let thine.
   * Ge 44:33 Joh 10:11,12 1Pe 2:24,25


VERSE 18 
 - Gad.
   * :11 1Ch 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.

- Araunah.  Heb. Araniah.  See on ver.
   * :16


VERSE 19 
 - as the Lord.
   * Ge 6:22 1Ch 21:19 2Ch 20:20; 36:16 Ne 9:26 Heb 11:8


VERSE 20 
 - bowed.
   * 2Sa 9:8 Ge 18:2 Ru 2:10 1Ch 21:20,21


VERSE 21 
 - Wherefore.
   * :3,18
- To buy.
   * Ge 23:8-16 1Ch 21:22 Jer 32:6-14
- the plague.
   * 2Sa 21:3-14 Nu 16:47-50; 25:8 Ps 106:30


VERSE 22 
 - Let my lord.
   * Ge 23:11 1Ch 21:22
- be oxen.
   * 1Sa 6:14 1Ki 19:21


VERSE 23 
 - as a king.
   * Ps 45:16 Isa 32:8
- The Lord.
   * Job 42:8,9 Ps 20:3,4 Isa 60:7 Eze 20:40,41 Ho 8:13
   * Ro 15:30,31 1Ti 2:1,2 1Pe 2:5


VERSE 24 
 - Nay.
   * Ge 23:13 1Ch 21:24 Mal 1:12-14 Ro 12:17
- So David.
   * 1Ch 21:25; 22:1


VERSE 25 
 - built there.
   * Ge 8:20; 22:9 1Sa 7:9,17
- So the Lord.
   * :14; 21:14 1Ch 21:26,27 La 3:32,33



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