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2 Samuel 21:1 Now there was a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year; and David sought the presence of the LORD. And the LORD said, "It is for Saul and his bloody house, because he put the Gibeonites to death."

2 Samuel 21:2 So the king called the Gibeonites and spoke to them (now the Gibeonites were not of the sons of Israel but of the remnant of the Amorites, and the sons of Israel made a covenant with them, but Saul had sought to kill them in his zeal for the sons of Israel and Judah).

1 Chronicles 21:1 Then Satan stood up against Israel and moved David to number Israel.

1 Chronicles 27:23 But David did not count those twenty years of age and under, because the LORD had said He would multiply Israel as the stars of heaven.

1 Chronicles 27:24 Joab the son of Zeruiah had begun to count them, but did not finish; and because of this, wrath came upon Israel, and the number was not included in the account of the chronicles of King David. (NASB ©1995)

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And again the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he moved David against them to say, Go, number Israel and Judah.

1-4 David, tempted by Satan, forces Joab to number the people 5-9 The captains, in nine months and twenty days, bring the muster of thirteen hundred thousand fighting men 10-14 David repents, and having three plagues propounded by God, chooses the three days' pestilence 15-17 After the death of three score and ten thousand, David by prayer prevents the destruction of Jerusalem 18-25 David, by God's direction, purchases Araunah's threshing floor; where having sacrificed, the plague stays.

A.M. 2987 B.C. 1017 An. Ex. Is. 474
again 2Sa 21:1

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 has 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 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 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. Jas 1:13,14

moved 2Sa 12:11 16:10 Ge 45:5 50:20 Ex 7:3 1Sa 26:19 1Ki 22:20-23 Eze 14:9 20:25 Ac 4:28 2Th 2:11

Go, number 1Ch 27:23,24

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