2 Samuel 24:2

HOT⁽ⁱ⁾ ² ויאמר המלך אל יואב שׂר החיל אשׁר אתו שׁוט נא בכל שׁבטי ישׂראל מדן ועד באר שׁבע ופקדו את העם וידעתי את מספר העם׃

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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