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“But when the angel stretched out his hand toward Yerushalayim to destroy it, Adonai changed his mind about causing such distress and said to the angel destroying the people, ‘Enough! Now withdraw your hand.’ The angel of Adonai was at the threshing-floor of Aravnah the Y’vusi.”-2 Samuel 24:16 In verse 16, we encounter the controversial […]

“Go and say to David that this is what Adonai says: ‘I am giving you a choice of three punishments. Choose one of them, and I will execute it against you.’”-2 Samuel 24:12 So the divine gameshow has begun. The Lord tells David, as a “reward” for his sin of conducting the census, that he […]

“But after he had taken the census, David was conscience-stricken. David said to Adonai, ‘I have greatly sinned in what I have done. But now, Adonai, please! Put aside your servant’s sin, for I have done a very foolish thing.’”-2 Samuel 24:10 Now that the census was over, David finally came to his senses. He […]

“But he didn’t count Levi and Binyamin among them, because the king’s order was hateful to Yo’av.” -1 Chronicles 21:6 So yesterday I said that the account of this census here in 2nd Samuel 24 also appears in 1st Chronicles 21. However, the numbers don’t quite add up. And we’re also told that Benjamin and […]

“Yo’av reported the results of the census to the king: there were in Isra’el 800,000 valiant men who could handle a sword, while the men of Y’hudah numbered 500,000.“-2 Samuel 24:9 The results of the census were 800,000 for Israel (the 10 northern tribes) and 500,000 for southern Judah. So the combined total was 1.3 […]