Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, by R.A. Torrey, [ca. 1880], at sacred-texts.com
Overview
Sa2 24:1, David, tempted by Satan, forces Joab to number the people; Sa2 24:5, The captains, in nine months and twenty days, bring the muster of thirteen hundred thousand fighting men; Sa2 24:10, David repents, and having three plagues propounded by God, chooses the three days' pestilence; Sa2 24:15, After the death of three score and ten thousand, David by prayer prevents the destruction of Jerusalem; Sa2 24:18, David, by God's direction, purchases Araunah's threshing floor; where having sacrificed, the plague stays.
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again: Sa2 21:1-14
he: This verse, when read without reference to any other part of the word of God, is very difficult to understand, and has been used by those who desire to undermine the justice of God, to shew that he sought occasion to punish - that he incited David to sin; and when he had so incited him, gave to him the dreadful alternative of choosing one of three scourges by which his people were to be cut off. On the face of the passage these thoughts naturally arise, because "the Lord" is the antecedent to the pronoun "he," - He moved David. But to those who "search the Scriptures," this exceedingly difficult passage receives a wonderful elucidation. By referring to Ch1 21:1, the reader will there find that Satan was the mover, and that the Lord most righteously punished David for the display of pride he had manifested. Oh! that Christians, who sometimes have their minds harassed with doubts, would remember the promise, that what they know not now they shall know hereafter; and if no other instance of elucidation than this passage occurred to them to remove their doubts, let this be a means of stirring them up to dig deeper than ever into the inexhaustible mines of the Inspired Word. Jam 1:13, Jam 1:14
moved: Sa2 12:11, Sa2 16:10; Gen 45:5, Gen 50:20; Exo 7:3; Sa1 26:19; Kg1 22:20-23; Eze 14:9, Eze 20:25; Act 4:28; Th2 2:11
Joab: Sa2 2:13, Sa2 8:16, Sa2 20:23, Sa2 23:37
Go now: etc. or, Compass now all, Ch1 21:2
from Dan: Sa2 3:10, Sa2 17:11; Jdg 20:1
and number: We know not in what the sinfulness of this action consisted. Some think it was a contempt of the promise that the Israelites should be innumerable, and that they ought not to have been numbered without an express command, as in the days of Moses. Others suppose with Josephus that it was a kind of sacrilege, in omitting to collect the half-shekel a-piece for the use of the sanctuary. It however would appear that pride and ambition, and a desire of conquest, induced David to this measure, and rendered it so displeasing to God.
that I may: Deu 8:13, Deu 8:14; Ch2 32:25, Ch2 32:26, Ch2 32:31; Pro 29:23; Jer 17:5; Co2 12:7
Sa2 10:12; Ch1 21:3, Ch1 21:4; Psa 115:14; Pro 14:28; Isa 60:5
Aroer: Deu 2:36; Jos 13:9, Jos 13:16; Sa1 30:28; Isa 17:2
river: or, valley
Jazer: Num 32:1, Num 32:3, Num 32:35; Isa 16:8, Isa 16:9
Gilead: Gen 31:21, Gen 31:47, Gen 31:48; Num 32:1, Num 32:39
land of Tahtimhodshi: or, nether land newly inhabited, Dan-jaan. Jos 19:47; Jdg 18:29
Zidon: Gen 10:15; Jos 11:8, Jos 19:28; Jdg 18:28
Tyre: Jos 19:29
to Beersheba: Sa2 24:2; Gen 21:31-33
eight hundred thousand: Ch1 21:5, Ch1 21:6, Ch1 27:23, Ch1 27:24
David's heart: Sa1 24:5; Joh 8:9; Jo1 3:20, Jo1 3:21
I have sinned: Sa2 12:13; Ch1 21:8; Ch2 32:26; Job 33:27, Job 33:28; Psa 32:5; Pro 28:13; Mic 7:8, Mic 7:9; Jo1 1:9
take away: Job 7:21; Hos 14:2; Joh 1:29
foolishly: Sa2 12:13; Deu 32:6; Sa1 13:13, Sa1 26:21; Ch2 16:9; Mar 7:22; Tit 3:3
Gad: Sa1 22:5; Ch1 2:19, Ch1 29:29
seer: Sa1 9:9
that I may: Sa2 12:9, Sa2 12:10, Sa2 12:14; Lev 26:41, Lev 26:43; Job 5:17, Job 5:18; Pro 3:12; Heb 12:6-10; Rev 3:19
seven: Sa2 21:1; Lev 26:20; Kg1 17:1-7; Ch1 21:12; Eze 14:13, Eze 14:21; Luk 4:25
flee: Lev 26:17, Lev 26:36, Lev 26:37; Deu 28:25, Deu 28:52
three days': Lev 26:16, Lev 26:25; Deu 28:22, Deu 28:27, Deu 28:35; Psa 91:6; Eze 14:19-21
I am in: Sa1 13:6; Kg2 6:15; Joh 12:27; Phi 1:23
for his: Exo 34:6, Exo 34:7; Ch1 21:13; Psa 51:1, Psa 86:5, Psa 86:15, Psa 103:8-14, Psa 119:156, Psa 145:9; Isa 55:7; Jon 4:2; Mic 7:18
great: or, many
let me not: Kg2 13:3-7; Ch2 28:5-9; Psa 106:41, Psa 106:42; Pro 12:10; Isa 47:6; Zac 1:15
the Lord: Num 16:46-49, Num 25:9; Sa1 6:19; Ch1 21:14, Ch1 27:4; Mat 24:7; Rev 6:8
from Dan: Sa2 24:2
seventy thousand men: Isa 37:36
the angel: Exo 12:23; Kg2 19:35; Ch1 21:15, Ch1 21:16; Ch2 32:21; Psa 35:6; Act 12:23
repented: Gen 6:6; Sa1 15:11; Psa 78:38, Psa 90:13, Psa 135:14; Jer 18:7-10; Joe 2:13, Joe 2:14; Amo 7:3, Amo 7:6; Hab 3:2
It is enough: Exo 9:28; Kg1 19:4; Isa 27:8, Isa 40:1, Isa 40:2, Isa 57:16; Joe 2:13, Joe 2:14; Mar 14:41; Co2 2:6
Araunah: Sa2 24:18; Ch1 21:15; Ch2 3:1, Ornan
the Jebusite: Sa2 5:8; Gen 10:16; Jos 15:63; Jdg 1:21, Jdg 19:11; Zac 9:7
I have sinned: Sa2 24:10; Job 7:20, Job 42:6; Psa 51:2-5; Isa 6:5
these sheep: Kg1 22:17; Psa 44:11, Psa 74:1; Eze 34:2-6, Eze 34:23, Eze 34:24; Zac 13:7
let thine: Gen 44:33; Joh 10:11, Joh 10:12; Pe1 2:24, Pe1 2:25
Gad: Sa2 24:11; Ch1 21:18-30, threshing floor, These, among the ancient Jews, were only round, level plats of ground in the open air, as they are to this day in the East, where the corn was trodden out by oxen.
Araunah: Heb. Araniah, Sa2 24:16
as the Lord: Gen 6:22; Ch1 21:19; Ch2 20:20, Ch2 36:16; Neh 9:26; Heb 11:8
bowed: Sa2 9:8; Gen 18:2; Rut 2:10; Ch1 21:20, Ch1 21:21
Wherefore: Sa2 24:3, Sa2 24:18
To buy: Gen 23:8-16; Ch1 21:22; Jer 32:6-14
the plague: Sa2 21:3-14; Num 16:47-50, Num 25:8; Psa 106:30
Let my lord: Gen 23:11; Ch1 21:22
as a king: Psa 45:16; Isa 32:8
The Lord: Job 42:8, Job 42:9; Psa 20:3, Psa 20:4; Isa 60:7; Eze 20:40, Eze 20:41; Hos 8:13; Rom 15:30, Rom 15:31; Ti1 2:1, Ti1 2:2; Pe1 2:5
Nay: Gen 23:13; Ch1 21:24; Mal 1:12-14; Rom 12:17
built there: Gen 8:20, Gen 22:9; Sa1 7:9, Sa1 7:17
So the Lord: Sa2 24:14, Sa2 21:14; Ch1 21:26, Ch1 21:27; Lam 3:32, Lam 3:33