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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comTreasury Of Scripture Knowledge - 1 Chronicles 27:23 - 27:23
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David took not: It seems probable, from this passage, that Joab began, by David's order, to number the children, as well as adults, but was prevented from finishing the account, probably because the plague had begun. The numbering of the effective men might have been deemed a political expedient; but pride and ostentation alone could dictate the numbering of minors and infants, especially as God had pronounced the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, innumerable.
from twenty: Num 1:18
he would increase: Gen 15:5; Heb 11:12