2 Samuel 24:2
So David told Joab, the army commander, “Go and count the Israelites from Dan to Beersheba, so I can have a total number.”
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Deuteronomy 8:13and when your herds and flocks grow larger, and your silver and gold accumulates, and all your possessions increase,
2 Samuel 2:13Joab, son of Zeruiah, and David's men set off and met them at the pool of Gibeon, where they all sat down, facing each other across the pool.
2 Samuel 8:16Joab, son of Zeruiah, was the army commander, and Jehoshaphat, son of Ahilud, kept the official records.
2 Samuel 20:23Joab commanded the whole army of Israel. Benaiah, son of Jehoiada, was in charge of the Cherethites and Pelethites.
2 Samuel 24:15So the Lord sent a plague on Israel from that morning until the time designated, and seventy thousand people died from Dan to Beersheba.
2 Chronicles 32:25But because he had become proud, Hezekiah did not acknowledge the gift he'd been given. So the Lord's anger fell on him, and on Judah and Jerusalem.
Matthew Henry on 2 Samuel 24:2-10
The People Numbered. ( b. c. 1017.) 1 And again the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he moved David against them to say, Go, number Israel and Judah. 2 For the king said to Joab the captain of the host, which was with him, Go now through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, and number ye the people, that I may know the number of the people. 3 And Joab said unto the king, Now the Lord thy God add unto the people, how many soever they be, a hundredfold, and that the eyes of my lord… Read the whole commentary →