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Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

2 Samuel 24 - Introduction

David commands the people to be numbered; which is done by Joab: David repents, and his kingdom is punished with a three days pestilence, in which seventy thousand men die.

Before Christ 1017.

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  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    1 SAMUEL 21-24. These Chapter s form an appendix of material from various sources. One of the editors, perhaps the one to whom the book substantially owes its present form, seems to have met with diff...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The numbering of the People and the Plague =1 Chronicles 21:1-27 There is no definite note of time to shew when the events here recorded took place, but several indications point to the later years...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    A DIGEST OF CHAPTER 24 2 Samuel 24:1-9 _The numbering._ David conceived the plan of going throughout the length and breadth of Israel and numbering his people. Joab opposed this, but David went ahea...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    1:9 anguish (a-16) Others, 'bewilderment.'...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    XXIV. This chapter contains the account of David’s sin in numbering the people, and the punishment in consequence. The same narrative is found in 1 Chronicles 21, but with such considerable variation...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    INTRODUCTION TO SECOND SAMUEL 24 In this chapter an account is given of David's numbering of the people, 2 Samuel 24:1; of the sense he had of his sin, and of his acknowledgment of it; and of the Lor...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _A.M. 2987. B.C. 1017._ David numbers the people, 2 Samuel 24:1. His repentance and punishment, 2 Samuel 24:10. The plague stayed, 2 Samuel 24:16;...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 Dauid tempted by Satan, forceth Ioab to number the people. 5 The captaines in nine moneths and twentie dayes, bring the muster of eleuen thousand fighting men. 10 Dauid hauing three plagues propou...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    * David numbers the people. (1-9) He chooses the pestilence. (10-15) The staying the pestilence. (16,17) David's sacrifice, The plague removed. (18-25)...

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