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  • From: "Eric Krasner" <ekrasner AT worldvision.org>
  • To: "Biblical Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: 2 SAMUEL 24
  • Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 07:43:27 -0800



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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ben.crick@argo

net.co.uk (Ben To: Biblical Hebrew
<b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
and Jo Crick) cc:

Subject: [b-hebrew] Re: 2 SAMUEL
24
01/14/2003

03:58 PM

Please respond

to ben.crick









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
--
Revd Ben Crick BA CF, and Mrs Joanna (Goodwin) Crick
<ben.crick AT argonet.co.uk>
232 Canterbury Road, Birchington, Kent, CT7 9TD (UK)
http://www.cnetwork.co.uk/crick.htm




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