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Began to number, to wit, all from twenty years old and upward, as David commanded him.
He finished not; for Levi and Benjamin he counted not, 1Ch_21:6. Because there fell wrath for it against Israel, whilst he was doing the work; which was one reason which made him to cease. Heb. And there fell, &c. Though David numbered them with caution and limitation, as was noted before, yet this did not hinder God’s wrath from falling upon Israel for this sin.
Neither was the number put in the account of the chronicles of king David: the sense is either,
1. That the full number was not registered, because Levi and Benjamin were not counted by Joab. Or rather,
2. That David being sensible of and smarting for his sin, would not have the number brought in by Joab to him put into the public register, though God would have it recorded in Scripture for the instruction of succeeding ages. For he speaks not here of the account given in to the king, which was done, and was Joab’s act; but of the putting of the account into the public records, which was not done, and which could not be done but by David’s command or permission.