David's Census

2 Samuel 24

1 z a Again the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he incited David against them, saying, b "Go, number Israel and Judah." 2 So the king said to Joab, the commander of the army, 1 who was with him, "Go through all the tribes of Israel, c from Dan to Beersheba, and number the people, that I may know the number of the people." 3 But Joab said to the king, d "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?" 4 But the king's word prevailed against Joab and the commanders of the army. So Joab and the commanders of the army went out from the presence of the king to number the people of Israel. 5 They crossed the Jordan and began from e Aroer, 2 and from the city that is in the middle of the f valley, toward Gad and on to g Jazer. 6 Then they came to Gilead, and to Kadesh in the land of the Hittites; 3 and they came to Dan, and from Dan 4 they went around to h Sidon, 7 and came to the fortress of Tyre and to all the cities of the i Hivites and i Canaanites; and they went out to the Negeb of Judah at Beersheba. 8 So when they had gone through all the land, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days. 9 And Joab gave the sum of the numbering of the people to the king: in Israel there were 800,000 valiant men j who drew the sword, and the men of Judah were 500,000.

  1. Cross References
    2 Samuel 24:1 - 25
    Again the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he incited David against them, saying, "Go, number Israel and Judah.
    1 Chronicles 21:1 - 28
    Then Satan stood against Israel and incited David to number Israel.
  2. Cross References
    1 Chronicles 21:1
    Then Satan stood against Israel and incited David to number Israel.
  3. Cross References
    1 Chronicles 27:23 - 24
    David did not count those below twenty years of age, for the Lord had promised to make Israel as many as the stars of heaven.
  4. Cross References
    2 Samuel 24:15
    So the Lord sent a pestilence on Israel from the morning until the appointed time. And there died of the people from Dan to Beersheba 70,000 men.
    2 Samuel 3:10
    To transfer the kingdom from the house of Saul and set up the throne of David over Israel and over Judah, from Dan to Beersheba.
  5. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 1:11
    May the Lord, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times as many as you are and bless you, as he has promised you!
  6. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 2:36
    From Aroer, which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, and from the city that is in the valley, as far as Gilead, there was not a city too high for us. The Lord our God gave all into our hands.
    Joshua 13:9
    From Aroer, which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and all the tableland of Medeba as far as Dibon.
    Joshua 13:16
    So their territory was from Aroer, which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and all the tableland by Medeba.
  7. Cross References
    Numbers 13:23
    And they came to the Valley of Eshcol and cut down from there a branch with a single cluster of grapes, and they carried it on a pole between two of them; they also brought some pomegranates and figs.
  8. Cross References
    Numbers 21:32
    And Moses sent to spy out Jazer, and they captured its villages and dispossessed the Amorites who were there.
    Numbers 32:1
    Now the people of Reuben and the people of Gad had a very great number of livestock. And they saw the land of Jazer and the land of Gilead, and behold, the place was a place for livestock.
    Numbers 32:3
    Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo, and Beon.
  9. Cross References
    Joshua 19:28
    Ebron, Rehob, Hammon, Kanah, as far as Sidon the Great.
    Judges 18:28
    And there was no deliverer because it was far from Sidon, and they had no dealings with anyone. It was in the valley that belongs to Beth-rehob. Then they rebuilt the city and lived in it.
  10. Cross References
    Joshua 11:3
    To the Canaanites in the east and the west, the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, and the Jebusites in the hill country, and the Hivites under Hermon in the land of Mizpah.
    Judges 3:3
    These are the nations: the five lords of the Philistines and all the Canaanites and the Sidonians and the Hivites who lived on Mount Lebanon, from Mount Baal-hermon as far as Lebo-hamath.
  11. Cross References
    Joshua 11:3
    To the Canaanites in the east and the west, the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, and the Jebusites in the hill country, and the Hivites under Hermon in the land of Mizpah.
    Judges 3:3
    These are the nations: the five lords of the Philistines and all the Canaanites and the Sidonians and the Hivites who lived on Mount Lebanon, from Mount Baal-hermon as far as Lebo-hamath.
  12. Cross References
    Judges 8:10
    Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor with their army, about 15,000 men, all who were left of all the army of the people of the East, for there had fallen 120,000 men who drew the sword.
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