2 Samuel 24:2

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And the king said to Joab and the captains of the army, who were with him, Go now through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan as far as Beer-sheba, and have all the people numbered, so that I may be certain of the number of the people.

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  • 2 Sam 3:10 : 10 And if I do not take away the kingdom from the family of Saul and make David ruler over Israel and Judah from Dan as far as Beer-sheba!
  • Judg 20:1 : 1 Then all the children of Israel took up arms, and the people came together like one man, from Dan to Beer-sheba, and the land of Gilead, before the Lord at Mizpah.
  • 2 Sam 20:23 : 23 Now Joab was over all the army; and Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, was at the head of the Cherethites and the Pelethites;
  • 2 Sam 23:37 : 37 Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Beerothite, who had the care of the arms of Joab, son of Zeruiah,
  • 1 Chr 21:2 : 2 And David said to Joab and the captains of the people, Now let all Israel, from Beer-sheba to Dan, be numbered; and give me word so that I may be certain of their number.
  • 2 Chr 32:25-26 : 25 But Hezekiah did not do as had been done to him; for his heart was lifted up in pride; and so wrath came on him and on Judah and Jerusalem. 26 But then, Hezekiah, in sorrow for what he had done, put away his pride; and he and all Jerusalem made themselves low, so that the wrath of the Lord did not come on them in Hezekiah's life-time.
  • 2 Chr 32:31 : 31 However, in the business of the representatives sent by the rulers of Babylon to get news of the wonder which had taken place in the land, God gave up guiding him, testing him to see what was in his heart.
  • Prov 29:23 : 23 A man's pride will be the cause of his fall, but he who has a gentle spirit will get honour.
  • Jer 17:5 : 5 This is what the Lord has said: Cursed is the man who puts his faith in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart is turned away from the Lord.
  • 2 Cor 12:7 : 7 And because the revelations were so very great, in order that I might not be overmuch lifted up, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, one sent from Satan to give me pain.
  • 2 Sam 8:16 : 16 And Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief of the army; and Jehoshaphat, the son of Ahilud, was keeper of the records;
  • 2 Sam 17:11 : 11 But my suggestion is that all Israel, from Dan as far as Beer-sheba, comes together to you, a great army like the sands of the sea in number; and that you yourself go out among them.
  • 2 Sam 2:13 : 13 And Joab, the son of Zeruiah, and the servants of David, went out and came face to face with them by the pool of Gibeon; and they took up their position, facing one another on opposite sides of the pool.
  • Deut 8:13-14 : 13 And when your herds and your flocks are increased, and your stores of silver and gold, and you have wealth of every sort; 14 Take care that your hearts are not lifted up in pride, giving no thought to the Lord your God who took you out of the land of Egypt, out of the prison-house;

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  • 1 Chr 21:1-6
    6 verses
    92%

    1 Now Satan, designing evil against Israel, put into David's mind the impulse to take the number of Israel.

    2 And David said to Joab and the captains of the people, Now let all Israel, from Beer-sheba to Dan, be numbered; and give me word so that I may be certain of their number.

    3 And Joab said, May the Lord make his people a hundred times more in number than they are; but, my lord king, are they not all my lord's servants? why would my lord have this done? why will he become a cause of sin to Israel?

    4 But the king's word was stronger than Joab's. So Joab went out and went through all Israel and came to Jerusalem.

    5 And Joab gave David the number of all the people; all the men of Israel, able to take up arms, were one million, one hundred thousand men; and those of Judah were four hundred and seventy thousand men, able to take up arms.

    6 But Levi and Benjamin were not numbered among them, for Joab was disgusted with the king's order.

  • 2 Sam 24:1
    84%

    1 Again the wrath of the Lord was burning against Israel, and moving David against them, he said, Go, take the number of Israel and Judah.

  • 2 Sam 24:3-4
    2 verses
    84%

    3 And Joab said to the king, Whatever the number of the people, may the Lord make it a hundred times as much, and may the eyes of my lord the king see it: but why does my lord the king take pleasure in doing this thing?

    4 But the king's order was stronger than Joab and the captains of the army. And Joab and the captains of the army went out from the king, to take the number of the children of Israel.

  • 2 Sam 18:1-2
    2 verses
    76%

    1 And David had the people who were with him numbered, and he put over them captains of thousands and captains of hundreds.

    2 And David sent the people out, a third of them under the orders of Joab, and a third under the orders of Abishai, son of Zeruiah, Joab's brother, and a third under Ittai the Gittite. And the king said to the people, And I myself will certainly go out with you.

  • 2 Sam 24:7-10
    4 verses
    76%

    7 And to the walled town of Tyre, and to all the towns of the Hivites and the Canaanites: and they went out to the South of Judah at Beer-sheba.

    8 So after going through all the land in every direction, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.

    9 And Joab gave the king the number of all the people: there were in Israel eight hundred thousand fighting men able to take up arms; and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand.

    10 And after the people had been numbered, David's heart was troubled. And David said to the Lord, Great has been my sin in doing this; but now, O Lord, be pleased to take away the sin of your servant, for I have done very foolishly

  • 1 Chr 27:23-24
    2 verses
    76%

    23 But David did not take the number of those who were under twenty years old, for the Lord had said that he would make Israel like the stars of heaven in number.

    24 The numbering was started by Joab, the son of Zeruiah, but he did not go on to the end; and because of it, wrath came on Israel and the number was not recorded in the history of King David.

  • 1 Kgs 20:15
    74%

    15 Then he got together the servants of all the chiefs who were over the divisions of the land, two hundred and thirty-two of them; and after them, he got together all the people, all the children of Israel, seven thousand.

  • Num 1:38-39
    2 verses
    73%

    38 The generations of the sons of Dan were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years and over who was able to go to war;

    39 Sixty-two thousand, seven hundred of the tribe of Dan were numbered.

  • Num 1:2-3
    2 verses
    73%

    2 Take the full number of the children of Israel, by their families, and by their fathers' houses, every male by name;

    3 All those of twenty years old and over, who are able to go to war in Israel, are to be numbered by you and Aaron.

  • 2 Sam 17:11
    73%

    11 But my suggestion is that all Israel, from Dan as far as Beer-sheba, comes together to you, a great army like the sands of the sea in number; and that you yourself go out among them.

  • 2 Sam 3:10
    73%

    10 And if I do not take away the kingdom from the family of Saul and make David ruler over Israel and Judah from Dan as far as Beer-sheba!

  • 2 Kgs 3:6
    72%

    6 At that time, King Jehoram went out from Samaria and got all Israel together in fighting order.

  • 1 Chr 27:1
    72%

    1 Now the number of the children of Israel, that is, the heads of families, and the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and the men in authority who were servants of the king in anything to do with the divisions which came in and went out month by month through all the months of the year, in every division were twenty-four thousand.

  • 1 Chr 12:23
    71%

    23 These are the numbers of the chiefs of the armed men, ready for war, who came to David at Hebron, to give the kingdom of Saul into his hands, as the Lord had said.

  • Num 26:2
    71%

    2 Let all the children of Israel be numbered, by the names of their fathers' families, all those of twenty years old and over who are able to go to war in Israel.

  • 1 Sam 11:8
    70%

    8 And he had them numbered in Bezek: the children of Israel were three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty thousand.

  • 1 Sam 15:4
    70%

    4 And Saul sent for the people and had them numbered in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen and ten thousand men of Judah.

  • Num 26:4
    70%

    4 Let all the people of twenty years old and over be numbered, as the Lord has given orders to Moses and the children of Israel who have come out of Egypt.

  • Num 1:26
    70%

    26 The generations of the sons of Judah were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over who was able to go to war;

  • 2 Chr 2:17
    70%

    17 Then Solomon took the number of all the men from strange lands who were living in Israel, as his father David had done; there were a hundred and fifty-three thousand, six hundred.

  • 1 Chr 13:1-2
    2 verses
    70%

    1 Then David had discussions with the captains of thousands and the captains of hundreds and with every chief.

    2 And David said to all the men of Israel who had come together there, If it seems good to you and if it is the purpose of the Lord our God, let us send to all the rest of our brothers, everywhere in the land of Israel, and to the priests and the Levites in their towns and the country round them, and get them to come together here to us;

  • 1 Chr 19:8
    70%

    8 And David, hearing of it, sent Joab with all the army of fighting-men.

  • Num 2:23
    69%

    23 The number of his army was thirty-five thousand, four hundred.

  • 2 Sam 24:15
    69%

    15 So David made selection of the disease; and the time was the days of the grain-cutting, when the disease came among the people, causing the death of seventy thousand men from Dan as far as Beer-sheba.

  • 2 Sam 10:7
    69%

    7 And hearing of this, David sent Joab and all the army and the best fighting-men.

  • Judg 20:1-2
    2 verses
    69%

    1 Then all the children of Israel took up arms, and the people came together like one man, from Dan to Beer-sheba, and the land of Gilead, before the Lord at Mizpah.

    2 And the chiefs of the people, out of all the tribes of Israel, took their places in the meeting of the people of God, four hundred thousand footmen armed with swords.

  • Num 1:45
    69%

    45 So all those who were numbered of the children of Israel, by their families, all those of twenty years old and over who were able to go to war,

  • 1 Sam 23:2
    69%

    2 So David, questioning the Lord, said, Am I to go and make an attack on these Philistines? And the Lord said to David, Go and make an attack on the Philistines so that Keilah may be kept from falling into their hands.

  • Num 2:21
    69%

    21 The number of his army was thirty-two thousand, two hundred.

  • Num 2:31
    69%

    31 The number of all the armies in the tents of Dan was a hundred and fifty-seven thousand, six hundred. They will go forward last, by their flags.

  • 2 Sam 20:2
    69%

    2 So all the men of Israel, turning away from David, went after Sheba, the son of Bichri: but the men of Judah were true to their king, going with him from Jordan as far as Jerusalem.

  • 1 Chr 28:1
    68%

    1 And David got together at Jerusalem all the rulers of Israel, the chiefs of the tribes and the captains of the divisions waiting on the king in turn, and the captains of thousands and the captains of hundreds and the controllers of all the goods and property of the king and his sons, with the unsexed servants and the great men of war.

  • Num 2:25
    68%

    25 On the north side will be the flag of the children of Dan, with Ahiezer, the son of Ammishaddai, as their chief.

  • 2 Chr 30:5
    68%

    5 So it was ordered that word was to be sent out through all Israel, from Beer-sheba to Dan, that they were to come to keep the Passover to the Lord, the God of Israel, at Jerusalem: because they had not kept it in great numbers in agreement with the law.