Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
I Chronicles 27:23 indicates sufficiently why the numbering was sinful. It is also stated in I Chronicles 21:6, that Joab purposely omitted Levi and Benjamin from the reckoning.
Eight hundred thousand ... five hundred thousand - In Chronicles the numbers are differently given. It is probable therefore that the Chronicler has included in his statement of the sum total some numbers which are not included here.
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing 2 Samuel 24:9:
1 Kings 5:13
1 Kings 12:21
1 Chronicles 21:5
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