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From the Blue Letter Bible
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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A. M. 2987. B.C. 1017. |
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An. Ex. Is. 474. |
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2Sa 21:1-14 |
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"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 1Ch 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 p" |
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2Sa 12:11; 2Sa 16:10; Gen 45:5; Gen 50:20; Exd 7:3; 1Sa 26:19; 1Ki 22:20-23; Eze 14:9; Eze 20:25; Act 4:28; 2Th 2:11 |
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1Ch 27:23,24 |
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2Sa 21:1 |
Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David enquired of the LORD. And the LORD answered, [It is] for Saul, and for [his] bloody house, because he slew the Gibeonites. |
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2Sa 21:2 |
And the king called the Gibeonites, and said unto them; (now the Gibeonites [were] not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites; and the children of Israel had sworn unto them: and Saul sought to slay them in his zeal to the children of Israel and Judah.) |
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2Sa 21:3 |
Wherefore David said unto the Gibeonites, What shall I do for you? and wherewith shall I make the atonement, that ye may bless the inheritance of the LORD? |
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2Sa 21:4 |
And the Gibeonites said unto him, We will have no silver nor gold of Saul, nor of his house; neither for us shalt thou kill any man in Israel. And he said, What ye shall say, [that] will I do for you. |
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2Sa 21:5 |
And they answered the king, The man that consumed us, and that devised against us [that] we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the coasts of Israel, |
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1Ch 21:1 |
And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel. |
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2Sa 12:11 |
Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house, and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give [them] unto thy neighbour, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun. |
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2Sa 16:10 |
And the king said, What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah? so let him curse, because the LORD hath said unto him, Curse David. Who shall then say, Wherefore hast thou done so? |
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Gen 45:5 |
Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life. |
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Gen 50:20 |
But as for you, ye thought evil against me; [but] God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as [it is] this day, to save much people alive. |
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Exd 7:3 |
And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt. |
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1Sa 26:19 |
Now therefore, I pray thee, let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If the LORD have stirred thee up against me, let him accept an offering: but if [they be] the children of men, cursed [be] they before the LORD; for they have driven me out this day from abiding in the inheritance of the LORD, saying, Go, serve other gods. |
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1Ki 22:20 |
And the LORD said, Who shall persuade Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramothgilead? And one said on this manner, and another said on that manner. |
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1Ki 22:21 |
And there came forth a spirit, and stood before the LORD, and said, I will persuade him. |
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1Ki 22:22 |
And the LORD said unto him, Wherewith? And he said, I will go forth, and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Thou shalt persuade [him], and prevail also: go forth, and do so. |
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1Ki 22:23 |
Now therefore, behold, the LORD hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these thy prophets, and the LORD hath spoken evil concerning thee. |
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Eze 14:9 |
And if the prophet be deceived when he hath spoken a thing, I the LORD have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand upon him, and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel. |
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Eze 20:25 |
Wherefore I gave them also statutes [that were] not good, and judgments whereby they should not live; |
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Act 4:28 |
For to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done. |
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2Th 2:11 |
And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: |
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1Ch 27:23 |
But David took not the number of them from twenty years old and under: because the LORD had said he would increase Israel like to the stars of the heavens. |
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1Ch 27:24 |
Joab the son of Zeruiah began to number, but he finished not, because there fell wrath for it against Israel; neither was the number put in the account of the chronicles of king David. |
Cite This Page: (explanation of citations)
Scott, Thomas. "2 Samuel 24:1," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
<http://www.blueletterbible.org/tsk_b/2Sa/24/1.html>.
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