2 Samuel 24:2

DSV_Strongs⁽ⁱ⁾

2 H4428 De koning H559 H8799 dan zeide H413 tot H3097 Joab H8269 H2428 , den krijgsoverste H834 , die H854 bij H7751 H0 hem was: Trek H4994 nu H7751 H8798 om H3605 , door alle H7626 stammen H3478 van Israel H4480 , van H1835 Dan H5704 tot H884 Ber-seba H6485 H8798 toe, en tel H5971 het volk H4557 , opdat ik het getal H5971 des volks H3045 H8804 wete.

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Joab.
2 Samuel 2:13; 2 Samuel 8:16; 2 Samuel 20:23; 2 Samuel 23:37
Go now, etc. or, Compass now all.
1 Chronicles 21:2
from Dan.
2 Samuel 3:10; 2 Samuel 17:11; Judges 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.
Deuteronomy 8:13; Deuteronomy 8:14; 2 Chronicles 32:25; 2 Chronicles 32:26; 2 Chronicles 32:31; Proverbs 29:23; Jeremiah 17:5; 2 Corinthians 12:7