Overview
2 Samuel 24:1, David, tempted by Satan, forces Joab to number the people; 2 Samuel 24:5, The captains, in nine months and twenty days, bring the muster of thirteen hundred thousand fighting men; 2 Samuel 24:10, David repents, and having three plagues propounded by God, chooses the three days’ pestilence; 2 Samuel 24:15, After the death of three score and ten thousand, David by prayer prevents the destruction of Jerusalem; 2 Samuel 24:18, David, by God’s direction, purchases Araunah’s threshing floor; where having sacrificed, the plague stays.

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again: 2 Samuel 21:1-14
he: This verse, when read without reference to any other part of the word of God, is very difficult to understand, and has been used by those who desire to undermine the justice of God, to shew that he sought occasion to punish - that he incited David to sin; and when he had so incited him, gave to him the dreadful alternative of choosing one of three scourges by which his people were to be cut off. On the face of the passage these thoughts naturally arise, because "the Lord" is the antecedent to the pronoun "he," - He moved David. But to those who "search the Scriptures," this exceedingly difficult passage receives a wonderful elucidation. By referring to 1 Chronicles 21:1, the reader will there find that Satan was the mover, and that the Lord most righteously punished David for the display of pride he had manifested. Oh! that Christians, who sometimes have their minds harassed with doubts, would remember the promise, that what they know not now they shall know hereafter; and if no other instance of elucidation than this passage occurred to them to remove their doubts, let this be a means of stirring them up to dig deeper than ever into the inexhaustible mines of the Inspired Word. James 1:13, James 1:14
moved: 2 Samuel 12:11, 2 Samuel 16:10, Genesis 45:5, Genesis 50:20, Exodus 7:3, 1 Samuel 26:19, 1 Kings 22:20-23, Ezekiel 14:9, Ezekiel 20:25, Acts 4:28, 2 Thessalonians 2:11
number: 1 Chronicles 27:23, 1 Chronicles 27:24
Reciprocal: Genesis 22:1 - God Exodus 30:12 - takest Leviticus 10:6 - lest wrath Numbers 1:2 - Take ye the sum Numbers 1:19 - General Numbers 14:12 - smite Numbers 16:22 - one man sin Joshua 7:1 - the anger Joshua 22:18 - he will be 1 Kings 11:14 - the Lord 1 Kings 12:15 - the cause 2 Kings 3:6 - numbered 1 Chronicles 5:26 - stirred up 1 Chronicles 7:2 - whose number 1 Chronicles 7:40 - the number 1 Chronicles 21:7 - he smote 1 Chronicles 21:17 - what have 2 Chronicles 21:16 - the Lord 2 Chronicles 24:18 - wrath 2 Chronicles 32:25 - General Jeremiah 52:3 - through

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
Reciprocal: Exodus 30:12 - no plague 2 Samuel 24:7 - to Beersheba 2 Samuel 24:15 - from Dan Ezekiel 48:1 - Dan

Gilead: Genesis 31:21, Genesis 31:47, Genesis 31:48, Numbers 32:1, Numbers 32:39
land of Tahtimhodshi: or, nether land newly inhabited, Dan-jaan. Joshua 19:47, Judges 18:29
Zidon: Genesis 10:15, Joshua 11:8, Joshua 19:28, Judges 18:28
Reciprocal: 1 Chronicles 5:10 - the Hagarites

Tyre: Joshua 19:29
to Beersheba: 2 Samuel 24:2, Genesis 21:31-33
Reciprocal: Genesis 13:1 - the south Zechariah 9:3 - build

eight hundred thousand: 1 Chronicles 21:5, 1 Chronicles 21:6, 1 Chronicles 27:23, 1 Chronicles 27:24
Reciprocal: Genesis 49:8 - thy hand Numbers 1:3 - able Numbers 1:26 - General Numbers 1:27 - General Numbers 1:46 - General Judges 20:2 - drew sword 1 Samuel 11:8 - the children

the Lord: Numbers 16:46-49, Numbers 25:9, 1 Samuel 6:19, 1 Chronicles 21:14, 1 Chronicles 27:4, Matthew 24:7, Revelation 6:8
from Dan: 2 Samuel 24:2
seventy thousand men: Isaiah 37:36
Reciprocal: Leviticus 10:6 - lest wrath Leviticus 26:25 - I will send Deuteronomy 28:21 - General 1 Kings 4:25 - from Dan 1 Chronicles 21:2 - Beersheba Psalms 91:3 - and from Psalms 91:6 - destruction Ezekiel 14:19 - if I

Gad: 2 Samuel 24:11, 1 Chronicles 21:18-30, threshing floor, These, among the ancient Jews, were only round, level plats of ground in the open air, as they are to this day in the East, where the corn was trodden out by oxen.
Araunah: Heb. Araniah, 2 Samuel 24:16
Reciprocal: Genesis 10:16 - Jebusite Exodus 27:1 - altar of shittim wood Judges 6:26 - build Judges 21:4 - built there 1 Samuel 6:14 - offered 2 Samuel 24:21 - Wherefore 1 Chronicles 21:15 - Ornan 1 Chronicles 21:21 - bowed himself 1 Chronicles 22:1 - This is the house 2 Chronicles 3:1 - Ornan

Let my lord: Genesis 23:11, 1 Chronicles 21:22
be oxen: 1 Samuel 6:14, 1 Kings 19:21
Reciprocal: 1 Chronicles 21:23 - Take it