2 Samuel 3:10
Dan <01835> [from Dan.]
2 Samuel 17:18
Bahurim <0980> [Bahurim.]
2 Samuel 24:7
Tyre <06865> [Tyre.]
Beer Sheba <0884> [to Beer-sheba.]
2 Samuel 24:15
Lord <03068> [the Lord.]
Dan <01835> [from Dan.]
Seventy thousand men <07657 0505 0376> [seventy thousand men.]
2 Samuel 17:11
Israel <03478> [all Israel.]
sand <02344> [as the sand.]
lead <01980> [thou go. Heb. they face, or presence, go, etc. in thine.]
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.]
