Matthew Poole Commentary - 2 Samuel 24:2 - 24:2

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Matthew Poole Commentary - 2 Samuel 24:2 - 24:2


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Which expression points at David’s sin in this matter, that he numbered them, not by direction from God, nor for any important business of the church or kingdom; but out of mere curiosity, and pride, and vain-glory; accompanied either with a secret distrust of God’s promise; or rather, with a carnal confidence in the numbers of his people; all which were great sins, and were so manifest, that not only God saw them, and all the degrees and aggravations of them, in David; but even Joab and the captains of the host were very sensible of them, 2Sa_24:3,4.