Exodus 30:12

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

When thou takest the sum of the children of Israel after their number, then shall they give every man a ransom for his soul unto the LORD, when thou numberest them; that there be no plague among them, when thou numberest them.

Takest

A ransom

No plague

2 Samuel 24:2

1 Chronicles 21:12

1 Chronicles 27:24

Bible References

Takest

And the silver recorded from the community [was] a hundred talents and a thousand seven hundred and seventy-five shekels, according to the sanctuary shekel.

"{Take a census of} the entire community of the {Israelites} according to their clans and {their families}, according to [the] number of names, every male individually

"{Take a census} of the community of the {Israelites} from {those twenty years old} and above, according to {their families}, all who are able to go out to war in Israel."

Again Yahweh [was] angry with Israel, and he incited David against them, saying, "Go count Israel and Judah."

A ransom

So we brought the offering of Yahweh, what each man found, objects of gold, bangles, bracelets, rings, earrings, and female ornaments, to make atonement for ourselves {before} Yahweh."

So the king called Jehoiada the chief, and he said to him, "Why have you not required the Levites to bring from Judah and Jerusalem the tax of Moses, the servant of Yahweh, and [of] the assembly of Israel for the tent of the testimony?"

{so that} he is gracious [to] him, and he says, 'Deliver him from descending into [the] pit; I have found a ransom.'

Yes, [it is] wrath, so that it will not incite you into mockery; and do not let [the] ransom's greatness turn you aside.

Surely a man cannot redeem a brother. He cannot give to God his ransom

just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life [as] a ransom for many."

For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life [as] a ransom for many."

who gave himself a ransom for all, the testimony at the proper time,

[because you] know that you were redeemed from your futile way of life inherited from your ancestors not with perishable things like silver or gold,

No plague

The king said to Joab, the commander of the army who [was] with him: "Please go about through all the tribes of Israel from Dan to Beersheba, and count the people that I may know the number of the people."

whether three years of famine or three months of devastation by your enemies while the sword of your enemies overtakes you, or three days of the sword of Yahweh, with disease in the land and the angel of Yahweh destroying throughout all the territory in Israel.' So now, see what word I should return to my sender."

Joab the son of Zeruiah began to count, but he did not finish. But wrath came upon Israel concerning this, and the number was not included in {the chronicles} of King David.