SEV Biblia, Chapter 24:10
¶ Y después que David hubo contado el pueblo, le herió su corazón; y dijo David al SEÑOR: Yo he pecado gravemente por haber hecho esto ; mas ahora, oh SEÑOR, te ruego que traspases el pecado de tu siervo, porque yo he obrado muy locamente.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 24:10
Verse 10. David said-I have sinned greatly] We know not exactly in what this sin consisted. I have already hinted, ver. 1, that probably David now began to covet an extension of empire, and purposed to unite some of the neighbouring states with his own; and having, through the suggestions of Satan or some other adversary, (for so the word implies,) given way to this covetous disposition, he could not well look to God for help, and therefore wished to know whether the thousands of Israel and Judah might be deemed equal to the conquests which he meditated. When God is offended and refuses assistance, vain is the help of man.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 10. And David’s heart smote him, after that had numbered the people , etc.] For nine or ten months his conscience lay asleep, but now the thing was done, it is awakened, and accuses him for it, and he repents of it; now he began to see the pride and haughtiness of his heart; his vanity and confidence in the creature, which led him to it; aggravated by doing it without seeking to know the mind of God, and without giving him his due, the half shekel, according to the law, ( Exodus 30:12,13); intent only upon increasing his own revenue, as some think, intending to impose a poll tax upon the people when he had numbered them; and attempting to number a people who were not to be numbered; and numbering those who were under the age of twenty, and therefore the plague began before it was finished, ( 1 Chronicles 27:23,24); and David said unto the Lord, I have sinned greatly in that I have done ; he saw and owned his sin to be exceeding sinful, attended with very aggravating circumstances: and now I beseech thee, Lord, take away the iniquity of thy servant ; the guilt of it from his conscience, which lay heavy there, and suffer not the punishment it deserves to take place on him, but grant an application of pardon to him: for I have done very foolishly ; all sin is folly, and some sins are exceeding foolish, and so this appeared to David; or, “though I have done very foolishly” f417 , yet forgive my sin, (see Psalm 38:5).
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 10-15 - It is well, when a man has sinned, if he has a heart within to smit him for it. If we confess our sins, we may pray in faith that God woul forgive them, and take away, by pardoning mercy, that sin which we cas away by sincere repentance. What we make the matter of our pride, it is just in God to take from us, or make bitter to us, and make it ou punishment. This must be such a punishment as the people have a larg share in, for though it was David's sin that opened the sluice, the sins of the people all contributed to the flood. In this difficulty David chose a judgment which came immediately from God, whose mercie he knew to be very great, rather than from men, who would have triumphed in the miseries of Israel, and have been thereby hardened in their idolatry. He chose the pestilence; he and his family would be a much exposed to it as the poorest Israelite; and he would continue for a shorter time under the Divine rebuke, however severe it was. The rapid destruction by the pestilence shows how easily God can bring dow the proudest sinners, and how much we owe daily to the Divine patience.
Original Hebrew
ויך 5221 לב 3820 דוד 1732 אתו 853 אחרי 310 כן 3651 ספר 5608 את 853 העם 5971 ויאמר 559 דוד 1732 אל 413 יהוה 3068 חטאתי 2398 מאד 3966 אשׁר 834 עשׂיתי 6213 ועתה 6258 יהוה 3068 העבר 5674 נא 4994 את 853 עון 5771 עבדך 5650 כי 3588 נסכלתי 5528 מאד׃ 3966
