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From the Blue Letter Bible
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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Joab
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2Sa 2:13; 2Sa 8:16; 2Sa 20:23; 2Sa 23:37 |
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Go now, etc.
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or, Compass now all. 1Ch 21:2 |
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from Dan
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2Sa 3:10; 2Sa 17:11; Jdg 20:1 |
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and number
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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. |
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that I may
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Deu 8:13,14; 2Ch 32:25,26,31; Pro 29:23; Jer 17:5; 2Cr 12:7 |
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2Sa 2:13 |
And Joab the son of Zeruiah, and the servants of David, went out, and met together by the pool of Gibeon: and they sat down, the one on the one side of the pool, and the other on the other side of the pool. |
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2Sa 8:16 |
And Joab the son of Zeruiah [was] over the host; and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud [was] recorder; |
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2Sa 20:23 |
Now Joab [was] over all the host of Israel: and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada [was] over the Cherethites and over the Pelethites: |
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2Sa 23:37 |
Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Beerothite, armourbearer to Joab the son of Zeruiah, |
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1Ch 21:2 |
And David said to Joab and to the rulers of the people, Go, number Israel from Beersheba even to Dan; and bring the number of them to me, that I may know [it]. |
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2Sa 3:10 |
To translate the kingdom from the house of Saul, and to set up the throne of David over Israel and over Judah, from Dan even to Beersheba. |
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2Sa 17:11 |
Therefore I counsel that all Israel be generally gathered unto thee, from Dan even to Beersheba, as the sand that [is] by the sea for multitude; and that thou go to battle in thine own person. |
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Jdg 20:1 |
Then all the children of Israel went out, and the congregation was gathered together as one man, from Dan even to Beersheba, with the land of Gilead, unto the LORD in Mizpeh. |
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Deu 8:13 |
And [when] thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou hast is multiplied; |
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Deu 8:14 |
Then thine heart be lifted up, and thou forget the LORD thy God, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage; |
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2Ch 32:25 |
But Hezekiah rendered not again according to the benefit [done] unto him; for his heart was lifted up: therefore there was wrath upon him, and upon Judah and Jerusalem. |
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2Ch 32:26 |
Notwithstanding Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, [both] he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of the LORD came not upon them in the days of Hezekiah. |
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2Ch 32:31 |
Howbeit in [the business of] the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent unto him to enquire of the wonder that was [done] in the land, God left him, to try him, that he might know all [that was] in his heart. |
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Pro 29:23 |
A man's pride shall bring him low: but honour shall uphold the humble in spirit. |
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Jer 17:5 |
Thus saith the LORD; Cursed [be] the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD. |
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2Cr 12:7 |
And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure. |
Cite This Page: (explanation of citations)
Scott, Thomas. "2 Samuel 24:2," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
<http://www.blueletterbible.org/tsk_b/2Sa/24/2.html>.
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