2 Samuel 24:1-3

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David’s Census of Israel and Judah

24 Again the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he incited David against them, saying, “Go, number Israel and Judah.”^[a] ²So the king said to Jo′ab and the commanders of the army,^[b] who were with him, “Go through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan to Beer-sheba, and number the people, that I may know the number of the people.” ³But Jo′ab said to the king, “May the Lord your God add to the people a hundred times as many as they are, while the eyes of my lord the king still see it; but why does my lord the king delight in this thing?”

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Footnotes

24.1 God is here said to command the census, presumably on the general grounds of ascribing the king’s policies to him, but in verse 10 David says he has sinned thereby, and in 1 Chron 21.1 the census is ascribed to Satan as an infringement of God’s prerogatives.
2 Samuel 24:2 1 Chron 21.2 Gk: Heb to Joab the commander of the army

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