2 Samuel 11:8
Go down <03381> [go down.]
relax <07364> [wash.]
gift <0310 04864> [there followed him. Heb. there went out after him.]
gift <04864> [a mess.]
2 Samuel 14:30
to ........... adjacent <03027 0413> [near mine. Heb. near my place. go and set.]
Absalom's <053> [And Absalom's.]
2 Samuel 19:26
saddled <02280> [I will saddle.]
servant .......... donkey ................ I <05650> [thy servant.]
2 Samuel 24:2
Joab <03097> [Joab.]
Go through <07751> [Go now, etc. or, Compass now all.]
Dan <01835> [from Dan.]
muster <06485> [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.
know <03045> [that I may.]
