Verse 2 Samuel 24:6. _TAHTIM-HODSHI_] Where this place was is not exactly known: some think that the words refer to a newly conquered country, as our margin, _the nether land newly inhabited_; and if...
TO GILEAD - Jazer was in the plain. They passed from there to the mountain district of Gilead. THE LAND OF TAHTIM-HODSHI - The text here is corrupt, as no such land is known. Possibly the right readin...
4. DAVID'S FAILURE: THE ALTAR ON THE THRESHING FLOOR OF ARAUNAH CHAPTER 24 _ 1. The numbering of the people (2 Samuel 24:1)_ 2. The sin acknowledged and Gad's message (2 Samuel 24:10) 3. The pesti...
1 SAMUEL 24. THE CENSUS (J). (_Cf._ p. 292.) This event also may belong to the beginning of David's reign over all Israel. 2 SAMUEL 24:1. Here is another illustration of the imperfect recognition of...
TAHTIM-HODSHI. Site unknown. If translated. the lower parts of the country where the new moon was worshipped. Like Beth-shemesh. House of the Sun. DAN-JAAN. Dan in the wood, perhaps Laish-Dan (Joshua...
_Gilead_ The mountainous district partly to the north and partly to the south of the River Jabbok. _the land of Tahtim-hodshi_ No such district is known, and the form of the words also makes it probab...
The Numbering of the People 1. _again_ The previous manifestation of God's anger referred to was the famine (ch. 21). It is possible that the two narratives stood in close juxtaposition in the origin...
5. The Sin of Census, 2 Samuel 24:1-25_._ The Numbering. 2 Samuel 24:1-9 And again the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he moved David against them to say, Go, number Israel and Juda...
_THEN THEY CAME TO GILEAD, AND TO THE LAND OF TAHTIMHODSHI; AND THEY CAME TO DANJAAN, AND ABOUT TO ZIDON,_ The land of Tahtim-hodshi. What place is meant has been a matter of various conjecture. Appa...
24:6 Tahtim-hodshi; (b-11) Or 'the low country of Hodshi.'...
THE NUMBERING OF THE PEOPLE, AND ITS PENALTY In punishment for David's sin in numbering the people, God sends a pestilence, which slays 70,000 men. In gratitude for the stay of the plague, David erec...
TAHTIM-HODSHI] Thenius conjectures that this is a mistake for 'Kadesh,' a town on the Orontes marking the extreme northern limit of Israel. DAN-JAAN] read 'Dan.' 10. David's sin consisted in pride in...
DAVID, THE GREAT KING OF ISRAEL 2 SAMUEL _HELEN POCOCK_ CHAPTER 24 DAVID COUNTS THE *ISRAELITES V1 Again the *Lord was angry with *Israel. He made David cause trouble for the *Israelites. He said...
LAND OF TAHTIM-HODSHI. — This unknown and strange name, of which the ancient versions make nothing, is generally considered as a corruption. The most probable conjecture is that for “Tahtim” we should...
וַ יָּבֹ֨אוּ֙ הַ גִּלְעָ֔דָה וְ אֶל ־אֶ֥רֶץ
CHAPTER XXXII. _ THE NUMBERING OF ISRAEL._ 2 Samuel 24:1 THOUGH David's life was now drawing to its close, neither his sins nor his chastisements were yet exhausted. One of his chief offences was co...
A PROUD HEART HUMBLED 2 Samuel 24:1 The sin of numbering the people lay in its _motive._ David was animated by a spirit of pride and vainglory. He was eager to make a fine showing among the surroundi...
The Book closes with one other picture, reminding us of the direct government of the people by God in that He visited the king and the nation with punishment for numbering the people. It has been obje...
Hodsi. Alexandrian Septuagint, (5) "of Gad and Eliazer, (6) and they came into Galaad, and into the land of Ethaon Adasai, and they went into Dan Jaran." The other editions vary. Hebrew means, "to the...
(3) And Joab said unto the king, Now the LORD thy God add unto the people, how many soever they be, an hundredfold, and that the eyes of my lord the king may see it: but why doth my lord the king deli...
In the sketch proposed of these books of scripture there is of course no pretension to notice every point of interest they contain, but only a general comprehensive view, as far as the Lord enables me...
Chapter 24 leads us into a subject which requires particular notice. The wrath of God is kindled again against Israel. It is not in the mind of the Spirit to inform us on what occasion this took place...
THEN THEY CAME TO GILEAD,.... The land of Gilead, half of which was given to the tribes of Reuben and Gad, and the other half to the half tribe of Manasseh, Deuteronomy 3:12; which tribes were numbere...
_Then they came to Gilead, and to the land of Tahtimhodshi; and they came to Danjaan, and about to Zidon,_ Ver. 6. _To the land of Tahtimhodshi._] _In terram inferiorem recens comparatam,_ into the l...
_They passed over Jordan_ They went first into the eastern part of the country, and so by the northern coasts to the west, and then to the south. _And pitched in Aroer_ These words seem to import, tha...
1 Dauid tempted by Satan, forceth Ioab to number the people. 5 The captaines in nine moneths and twentie dayes, bring the muster of eleuen thousand fighting men. 10 Dauid hauing three plagues propou...
Then they came to Gilead, the hill country along the Jabbok, AND TO THE LAND OF TAHTIM-HODSHI, probably a lower section of the east-Jordan country, which had but recently been settled; AND THEY CAME T...
THE PEOPLE NUMBERED...
The reason for God's anger burning against Israel (v.1) is not told us: if there is no public occasion for it, then it must be due to the moral and spiritual condition of the nation. Very likely that...
LAND OF TAHTIMHODSHI: Or, nether land newly inhabited...
1-9 For the people's sin David was left to act wrong, and in his chastisement they received punishment. This example throws light upon God's government of the world, and furnishes a useful lesson. Th...
TO GILEAD; to Mount Gilead, which lay northward from Arnon. TAHTIM-HODSHI; a place so called. Or, the _lowland lately gained_, i. e. not given by Joshua, but taken lately from the Hagarites by Saul; w...
2 Samuel 24:6 came H935 (H8799) Gilead H1568 land H776 Hodshi H8483 came H935 (H8799) Jaan H1842 around...
CONTENTS: David's sin in numbering the people. His choice of punishment. CHARACTERS: God, angel (Jesus), Joab, David, Gad, Araunah. CONCLUSION: God does not judge of sin as we do. What appears to us...
2 Samuel 24:1. _The Lord moved David._ He permitted Satan to stand up against Israel. 1 Chronicles 21:1. 2 Samuel 24:9. There were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men that drew the sword; and...
_Go, number Israel and Judah._ DAVID NUMBERING THE PEOPLE I. The sin committed by David. It is possible that David dwelt with satisfaction upon the thought of his ample resources and numerous armies,...
2 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 2 SAMUEL 24:1 The Lord’s anger and David’s sin lead to a plague. It also leads to the purchase of a place of worship in Jerusalem. ⇐...
2 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 2 SAMUEL 24:5 The FORTRESS OF TYRE was probably an Israelite fortress. ⇐...
2 Samuel 24:1. “AGAIN,” Evidently referring to the famine mentioned in 2 Samuel 21:1. “ISRAEL.” Some special national guilt not specified must be here referred to. If, as most writers suppose, this oc...
EXPOSITION 2 SAMUEL 24:1 AND AGAIN THE ANGER OF JEHOVAH WAS KINDLED AGAINST ISRAEL. It is probable that this chapter once stood in intimate connection with 2 Samuel 21:1; and that the famine therein...
Chapter twenty four, Again the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he moved David against them to say, Go, and number Israel and Judah. For the king said to Joab the captain of the host...