2 Samuel 24:13 - Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

2 Samuel 24:13

11 Now when David arose in the morning, the word of the Lord came to the prophet ^aGad, David’s ^bseer, saying,

12 “Go and tell David, ‘Thus says the Lord: “I offer you three things; choose one of them for yourself, that I may do it to you.” ’ ”

13 So Gad came to David and told him; and he said to him, “Shall ^aseven years of famine come to you in your land? Or shall you flee three months before your enemies, while they pursue you? Or shall there be three days’ plague in your land? Now consider and see what answer I should take back to Him who sent me.”

14 And David said to Gad, “I am in great distress. Please let us fall into the hand of the Lord, ^afor His mercies are great; but ^bdo not let me fall into the hand of man.”

15 So ^athe Lord sent a plague upon Israel from the morning till the appointed time. From Dan to Beersheba seventy thousand men of the people died.

16 ^aAnd when the¹ angel stretched out His hand over Jerusalem to destroy it, ^bthe Lord relented from the destruction, and said to the angel who was destroying the people, “It is enough; now restrain your hand.” And the angel of the Lord was by the threshing floor of² Araunah the Jebusite.

17 Then David spoke to the Lord when he saw the angel who was striking the people, and said, “Surely ^aI have sinned, and I have done wickedly; but these sheep, what have they done? Let Your hand, I pray, be against me and against my father’s house.”

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2 Samuel 24:13

Shall seven years of famine come unto thee—that is, in addition to the three that had been already, with the current year included (see on I Chronicles 21:11).

2 Samuel 24:10-13

HE, HAVING THREE PLAGUES PROPOUNDED BY GAD, REPENTS, AND CHOOSES THREE DAYS' PESTILENCE. (II Samuel 24:10-14)

David's heart smote him after that he had numbered the people. And David said unto the Lord, I have sinned—The act of numbering the people was not in itself sinful; for Moses did it by the express authority of God. But David acted not only independently of such order or sanction, but from motives unworthy of the delegated king of Israel; from pride and vainglory; from self-confidence and distrust of God; and, above all, from ambitious designs of conquest, in furtherance of which he was determined to force the people into military service, and to ascertain whether he could muster an army sufficient for the magnitude of the enterprises he contemplated. It was a breach of the constitution, an infringement of the liberties of the people, and opposed to that divine policy which required that Israel should continue a separate people. His eyes were not opened to the heinousness of his sin till God had spoken unto him by His commissioned prophet.

Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing 2 Samuel 24:13:

2 Samuel 24:10-13
1 Chronicles 21:11-12
Psalms 91:1
Isaiah 39:8
Jeremiah 14:12

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