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["Eric Krasner" <ekrasner AT worldvision.org>]

It is also my understanding that the sin itself was what was in David's
heart.  He numbered the people for the purpose of going to war.  God was
giving David peace, and David was desiring war.  There is the sin.


Eric S. Krasner

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"Let us not become weary doing good, for at
              the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up."
Galatians 6:9
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                                         Subject:     [b-hebrew] Re: 2 SAMUEL 
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On Tue 14 Jan 2003 (11:39:56), dean.young AT cda.centerpartners.com wrote:
> I HAVE A QUESTION. IN 2 SAMUEL 24, DAVID SINNED AGAINST THE LORD. I'M
> CONFUSED BECAUSE I DON'T SEE THE PART WHERE GOD TOLD HIM NOT TO NUMBER
> THE PEOPLE. COULD ANYONE EXPOUND A LITTLE ON EXACTLY THE "SIN" OF DAVID
AND
> WHY HE WAS PUNISHED?

 It appears that YHWH was /Agent Provocateur/ in moving David to number
 the people, and then punishing him for it. But the parallel account in
 1 Cbronicles 21:1 indicates that it was *Satan* who tempted David to sin
 against YHWH.

 David yielded to personal pride in wanting to know the exact number of his
 subjects; he confessed his guilt in verse 10. God gave David three
options,
 but David left the decision to YHWH and his great mercies (verse 14). The
 result was a huge decrease in the number of David's subjects. The damage
 might have been much worse, had not God's great mercies halted the plague
at
 the threshing-floor of Araunah (verse 16), the site of the future Temple.

 Ben
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