2 Samuel 24:1

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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

Again

2 Samuel 21:1

Moved

Go, number

1 Chronicles 27:23

Bible References

Again

There was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David sought the face of Yahweh. Yahweh said, "It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he put to death the Gibeonites."

Moved

"This is what Yahweh says: 'Behold, I will raise up evil against you out of your own house; and I will take your wives before your eyes, and give them to your neighbor, and he will lie with your wives in the sight of this sun.

The king said, "What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah? Because he curses, and because Yahweh has said to him, 'Curse David;' who then shall say, 'Why have you done so?'"

Now don't be grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life.

As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save many people alive.

I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt.

Now therefore, please let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If it is so that Yahweh has stirred you up against me, let him accept an offering. But if it is the children of men, they are cursed before Yahweh; for they have driven me out this day that I shouldn't cling to Yahweh's inheritance, saying, 'Go, serve other gods!'

Yahweh said, 'Who shall entice Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth Gilead?' One said one thing; and another said another.

If the prophet is deceived and speak a word, I, Yahweh, have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand on him, and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel.

Moreover also I gave them statutes that were not good, and ordinances in which they should not live;

to do whatever your hand and your council foreordained to happen.

Because of this, God sends them a working of error, that they should believe a lie;

Go, number

But David didn't take the number of them from twenty years old and under, because Yahweh had said he would increase Israel like the stars of the sky.