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      1;  David, tempted by Satan, forces Joab to number the people.
      5;  The captains, in nine months and twenty days, bring the
         muster of thirteen hundred thousand fighting men.
     10;  David repents, and having three plagues propounded by God,
         chooses the three days' pestilence.
     15;  After the death of three score and ten thousand, David by
         prayer prevents the destruction of Jerusalem.
     18;  David, by God's direction, purchases Araunah's threshing
         floor; where having sacrificed, the plague stays.

     * A.M. 2987.  B.C. 1017.  An. Ex. Is. 474.  again.
     # 21:1-14|
     * he.
       This verse, when read without reference to any other part of
       the word of God, is very difficult to understand, and has been
       used by those who desire to undermine the justice of God, to
       shew that he sought occasion to punish--that he incited David
       to sin; and when he had so incited him, gave to him the
       dreadful alternative of choosing one of three scourges by
       which his people were to be cut off.  On the face of the
       passage these thoughts naturally arise, because "the Lord" is
       the antecedent to the pronoun "he,"--He moved David.  But to
       those who "search the Scriptures," this exceedingly difficult
       passage receives a wonderful elucidation,  By referring to 1
       Ch 21:1, the reader will there find that Satan was the mover,
       and that the Lord most righteously punished David for the
       display of pride he had manifested.  Oh! that Christians, who
       sometimes have their minds harassed with doubts, would
       remember the promise, that what they know not now they shall
       know hereafter; and if no other instance of elucidation than
       this passage occurred to them to remove their doubts, let this
       be a means of stirring them up to dig deeper than ever into
       the inexhaustible mines of the Inspired Word.

     # Jas 1:13,14|
     * moved.
     # 12:11; 16:10; Ge 45:5; 50:20; Ex 7:3; 1Sa 26:19; 1Ki 22:20-23|
     # Eze 14:9; 20:25; Ac 4:28; 2Th 2:11|
     * Go, number.
     # 1Ch 27:23,24|