--- title: "2 Samuel 24 - Study King James Bible with cokes commentary on the holy bible" description: "Read 2 Samuel 24 with cokes commentary on the holy bible commentary. 1 And again the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he moved David against them to say, Go, number Israel and Judah. 2 For the king said to" image: "/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/cokes-commentary-on-the-holy-bible/2-samuel/24" --- [ Read](/kjv/2-samuel/24)[ Commentary](/study/2-samuel/24)[ Interlinear](/interlinear/2-samuel/24) Audio 1 And again the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he moved David against them to say, Go, number Israel and Judah. 2 For the king said to Joab the captain of the host, which *was* with him, Go now through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, and number ye the people, that I may know the number of the people.* 3 And Joab said unto the king, Now the LORD thy God add unto the people, how many soever they be, an hundredfold, and that the eyes of my lord the king may see *it:* but why doth my lord the king delight in this thing? 4 Notwithstanding the king’s word prevailed against Joab, and against the captains of the host. And Joab and the captains of the host went out from the presence of the king, to number the people of Israel. 5 ¶ And they passed over Jordan, and pitched in Aroer, on the right side of the city that *lieth* in the midst of the river of Gad, and toward Jazer:* 6 Then they came to Gilead, and to the land of Tahtim-hodshi; and they came to Dan-jaan, and about to Zidon,* 7 And came to the strong hold of Tyre, and to all the cities of the Hivites, and of the Canaanites: and they went out to the south of Judah, *even* to Beer-sheba. 8 So when they had gone through all the land, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days. 9 And Joab gave up the sum of the number of the people unto the king: and there were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men that drew the sword; and the men of Judah *were* five hundred thousand men. 10 ¶ And David’s heart smote him after that he had numbered the people. And David said unto the LORD, I have sinned greatly in that I have done: and now, I beseech thee, O LORD, take away the iniquity of thy servant; for I have done very foolishly. 11 For when David was up in the morning, the word of the LORD came unto the prophet Gad, David’s seer, saying, 12 Go and say unto David, Thus saith the LORD, I offer thee three *things;* choose thee one of them, that I may *do it* unto thee. 13 So Gad came to David, and told him, and said unto him, Shall seven years of famine come unto thee in thy land? or wilt thou flee three months before thine enemies, while they pursue thee? or that there be three days’ pestilence in thy land? now advise, and see what answer I shall return to him that sent me. 14 And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let us fall now into the hand of the LORD; for his mercies *are* great: and let me not fall into the hand of man.* 15 ¶ So the LORD sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning even to the time appointed: and there died of the people from Dan even to Beer-sheba seventy thousand men. 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 the angel of the LORD was by the threshingplace of Araunah the Jebusite.* 17 And David spake unto the LORD when he saw the angel that smote the people, and said, Lo, I have sinned, and I have done wickedly: but these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, be against me, and against my father’s house. 18 ¶ And Gad came that day to David, and said unto him, Go up, rear an altar unto the LORD in the threshingfloor of Araunah the Jebusite.* 19 And David, according to the saying of Gad, went up as the LORD commanded. 20 And Araunah looked, and saw the king and his servants coming on toward him: and Araunah went out, and bowed himself before the king on his face upon the ground. 21 And Araunah said, Wherefore is my lord the king come to his servant? And David said, To buy the threshingfloor of thee, to build an altar unto the LORD, that the plague may be stayed from the people. 22 And Araunah said unto David, Let my lord the king take and offer up what *seemeth* good unto him: behold, *here be* oxen for burnt sacrifice, and threshing instruments and *other* instruments of the oxen for wood. 23 All these *things* did Araunah, *as* a king, give unto the king. And Araunah said unto the king, The LORD thy God accept thee. 24 And the king said unto Araunah, Nay; but I will surely buy *it* of thee at a price: neither will I offer burnt offerings unto the LORD my God of that which doth cost me nothing. So David bought the threshingfloor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver. 25 And David built there an altar unto the LORD, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. So the LORD was intreated for the land, and the plague was stayed from Israel. [2 Samuel 23](/study/2-samuel/23) [1 Kings 1](/study/1-kings/1) ## Commentary To verse 1 ***[2 Samuel 24:1](/kjv/2-samuel/24/1)*****.*****He moved David against them, to say, Go, number*****—** This verse may be rendered thus, *And again the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel; for he moved David,*or, *David was moved against them, to say, Go, number,*&c. active verbs in the third person being frequently to be rendered as impersonals, and not to be referred to the nouns immediately foregoing: and thus the text will be fully reconcileable with that in Chronicles, which says, that *Satan moved him to number the people.*Gen 16:13-14 is exactly parallel with this; where it is said of Hagar, *"She called the name of the Lord, who spake to her,*Thou, God, seest me; *for she said, Have I here looked after him? therefore he called the well,*the well *Lahai-roi."*Who called it so? Not that God who saw her; and therefore the words must be rendered, as in our version, *the well was called.*But there is another way of rendering and understanding this passage, viz. *For he moved David,*or, *David was moved against them,*not as in our version, *to say,*but *by saying, Go, number;*which last will then be, not *David's*words to his officers, which follow in the next verse, but *his*who counselled David to this action: and thus David's numbering the people will be neither by the inspiration of God, nor immediately by the instigation of *Satan,*as that word means *the Devil.*See the parallel passage, [1 Chronicles 21:1](/kjv/1-chronicles/21/1). And yet somebody actually said to him, *Go, number the people;*and this person seems to have been one of his courtiers, or attendants; one who, to give David a higher notion of his grandeur, and of the number and strength of his forces, put it into his head, and persuaded him to take the account of them; and in Chronicles is therefore called *Satan,*or *an adversary,*either designedly or consequentially both to David and his people. And this will exactly agree with what the author of the book of Chronicles says, *An adversary stood up against Israel, and provoked,*or, as the word is rendered here, *moved him against them.* The word שׂטן, *Satan,*properly signifies *an adversary,*whether to a bad or a good cause. In the former sense it is used Num 22:23 where the angel of the Lord is said to *stand in the way*לו לשׂטן *lesatan lo, as an adversary,*a *Satan,*to Balaam. In a bad sense it is used ch. 2Sa 19:22 where David calls *the sons of Zeruiah his Satan*or *adversary;*and thus in the place before us: "An *adversary*to the peace of David and Israel, stood up and *excited him*to number the people; ויסת *vaiiaset,*excited him by his persuasion and advice; actually saying to him, *Go, number,*&c." Thus "Jezebel, הסתה *hesattah, stirred up*her husband Ahab to work wickedness;" was continually soliciting and urging him to it. [1 Kings 21:25](/kjv/1-kings/21/25). See also [Job 2:3](/kjv/job/2/3).[Deuteronomy 13:6](/kjv/deuteronomy/13/6); [Deuteronomy 13:6](/kjv/deuteronomy/13/6). 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