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Selected Verse: 2 Samuel 24:17 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| 2Sa 24:17 |
Strong Concordance |
And David [01732] spake [0559] unto the LORD [03068] when he saw [07200] the angel [04397] that smote [05221] the people [05971], and said [0559], Lo, I have sinned [02398], and I have done wickedly [05753]: but these sheep [06629], what have they done [06213]? let thine hand [03027], I pray thee, be against me, and against my father's [01] house [01004]. |
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King James |
And David spake unto the LORD when he saw the angel that smote the people, and said, Lo, I have sinned, and I have done wickedly: but these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, be against me, and against my father's house. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
David . . . said--or, "had said,"
I have sinned . . . but these sheep, what have they done?--The guilt of numbering the people lay exclusively with David. But in the body politic as well as natural, when the head suffers, all the members suffer along with it; and, besides, although David's sin was the immediate cause, the great increase of national offenses at this time had (Sa2 24:1) kindled the anger of the Lord. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
| Compare the passage in Chronicles. The account here is abridged; and Sa2 24:18 has the appearance of being the original statement. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
But these sheep, what have they done? - It seems that in the order of Providence there is no way of punishing kings in their regal capacity, but by afflictions on their land, in which the people must necessarily suffer. If the king, therefore, by his own personal offenses, in which the people can have no part, bring down God's judgments upon his people, (though they suffer innocently), grievous will be the account that he must give to God. The people generally suffer for the miscarriages of their governors: this has been observed in every age.
Quicquid delirant reges, plectuntur Achivi.
- "When doting monarchs urge
Unsound resolves, their subjects feel the scourge."
Hor. Ep. lib. i., ep. 2, ver. 14.
Against my father's house - That is, against his own family; even to cut it off from the face of the earth. |
1 And again [03254] the anger [0639] of the LORD [03068] was kindled [02734] against Israel [03478], and he moved [05496] David [01732] against them to say [0559], Go [03212], number [04487] Israel [03478] and Judah [03063].
18 And Gad [01410] came [0935] that day [03117] to David [01732], and said [0559] unto him, Go up [05927], rear [06965] an altar [04196] unto the LORD [03068] in the threshingfloor [01637] of Araunah [0728] the Jebusite [02983].