“ And David, according to the saying of Gad, went up as the LORD commanded. ”
1 Samuel 24. The Census (J). ( Cf. p. 292.) This event also may belong to the beginning of David's reign over all Israel. 2 Samuel 24:1-9 . Here is another illustration of the imperfect recog...
as . according as.
And David, according to the saying of Gad, went up as the LORD commanded.
And David, according to the saying of Gad, went up as the LORD commanded. No JFB commentary on these verses.
The Numbering of the People, and its Penalty In punishment for David's sin in numbering the people, God sends a pestilence, which slays 70,000 men. In gratitude for the stay of the plague, David e...
CHAPTER XXXII. THE NUMBERING OF ISRAEL. 2 Samuel 24:1-25 THOUGH David's life was now drawing to its close, neither his sins nor his chastisements were yet exhausted. One of his chief offences...
Judgment Stayed by Sacrifice 2 Samuel 24:15-25 The pestilence swept through the land like cholera or the black death in modern times. At last it approached the Holy City. It seemed as if the an...
The Book closes with one other picture, reminding us of the direct government of the people by God in that He visited the king and the nation with punishment for numbering the people. It has been ob...
(16) And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough: stay now thine hand. And...
And David, according to the saying of Gad, went up as the Lord commanded. From the place where he was in a lower part of the city to Mount Moriah, on which was the threshing floor, a place fit for...
And David, according to the saying of Gad, went up as the LORD commanded. Ver. 19. Went up, as the Lord commanded. ] This figured out, say some, a the faith amongst the Gentries, to whom the Jew...
The reason for God's anger burning against Israel (v.1) is not told us: if there is no public occasion for it, then it must be due to the moral and spiritual condition of the nation. Very likely that...
The Plague Removed. B. C. 1017. 18 And Gad came that day to David, and said unto him,...
No text from Poole on this verse.
2 Samuel 24:1 . “ Again ,” Evidently referring to the famine mentioned in 2 Samuel 21:1-14 . “ Israel .” Some special national guilt not specified must be here referred to. If, as most writers supp...
2 Samuel 24:1 . The Lord moved David. He permitted Satan to stand up against Israel. 1 Chronicles 21:1 . 2 Samuel 24:9 . There were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men that drew the s...
Go, number Israel and Judah. David numbering the people I. The sin committed by David. It is possible that David dwelt with satisfaction upon the thought of his ample resources and numerous arm...
EXPOSITION 2 Samuel 24:1 And again the anger of Jehovah was kindled against Israel. It is probable that this chapter once stood in intimate connection with 2 Samuel 21:1-10 ; and that th...
The Pestilence
1 Chronicles 21:19 ; 2 Chronicles 20:20 ; 2 Chronicles 36:16 ; Genesis 6:22 ; Hebrews 11:8 ; Nehemiah 9:26