2 Samuel 24:2

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2 H4428 The king H559 said H3097 to Joab H8269 the captain H2428 of the army, H7751 who was with him, "Now go back and forth through H7626 all the tribes H3478 of Israel, H1835 from Dan H884 even to Beersheba, H6485 and number H5971 the people, H3045 that I may know H4557 the sum H5971 of the people."

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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