2 Samuel 24:2-4

Coverdale⁽ⁱ⁾ ² And the kynge sayde vnto Ioab ye chefe captayne of his hoost: Go aboute in all the trybes of Israel, from Dan vnto Berseba, and nombre the people, that I maye knowe how many they be. ³ Ioab sayde vnto the kynge: The LORDE thy God adde vnto this people an hundreth tymes as moch as it is now, that my lorde the kynge maye se his eyes lust theron. But why hath my lorde the kynge a desyre to this thinge? ⁴ Neuertheles the kynges worde preuayled agaynst Ioab and the captaynes of the hoost.So Ioab and ye captaynes of the hoost wente forth from the kynge, to nombre the people of Israel,

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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