2 Samuel 24:1-10
1599 Geneva Bible
24 1 David causeth the people to be numbered. 10 He repenteth,and chooseth to fall into God’s hands. 15 Seventy thousand perish with the pestilence.
1 And the wrath of the Lord was [a]again kindled against Israel, and [b]he moved David against them, in that he said, Go, number Israel and Judah.
2 For the King said to Joab the captain of the host, which was with him, Go speedily now through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan even to Beersheba, and number ye the people, that I may know the [c]number of the people.
3 And Joab said unto the King, The Lord thy God increase the people an hundredfold more than they be, and that the eyes of my lord the King may see it: but why doth my lord the King desire this thing?
4 Notwithstanding the King’s word prevailed against Joab and against the captains of the host: therefore Joab and the captains of the host went out from the presence of the King to number the people of Israel.
5 ¶ And they passed over Jordan, and pitched in Aroer at the right side of the city that is in the midst of the [d]valley of Gad, and toward Jazer.
6 Then they came to Gilead, and to [e]Tahtim Hodshi, so they came to Dan Jaan, and so about to Sidon,
7 And came to the fortress of [f]Tyre and to all the cities of the Hivites and of the Canaanites, and went toward the South of Judah, even to Beersheba.
8 ¶ So when they had gone about all the land, they returned to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.
9 ¶ And Joab delivered the number and sum of the people unto the King: and there were in Israel [g]eight hundred thousand strong men that drew swords, and the men of Judah were [h]five hundred thousand men.
10 Then David’s heart smote him, after that he had numbered the people: and David said unto the Lord, I have sinned exceedingly, in that I have done: therefore now, Lord, I beseech thee, take away the trespass of thy servant: for I have done very foolishly.
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- 2 Samuel 24:1 Before they were plagued with famine, 2 Sam. 21:1.
- 2 Samuel 24:1 The Lord permitted Satan, as 1 Chron. 21:2.
- 2 Samuel 24:2 Because he did this to try his power, and so to trust therein, it offended God, else it was lawful to number the people, Exod. 30:12; Num. 1:2.
- 2 Samuel 24:5 Or, river.
- 2 Samuel 24:6 Or, to the nether land newly inhabited.
- 2 Samuel 24:7 Or, Zor.
- 2 Samuel 24:9 According to Joab’s count: for in all there were eleven hundred thousand, 1 Chron. 21:5.
- 2 Samuel 24:9 Concluding under them the Benjamites: for else they had but four hundred and seventy thousand, 1 Chron. 21:5.
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