1 Chronicles 21:2

“And David said to Joab and to the rulers of the people, Go, number Israel from Beer-sheba even to Dan; and bring the number of them to me, that I may know it.”

"And David said to Joab and to the rulers of the people, Go, number Israel from Beer-sheba even to Dan; and bring the number of them to me, that I may know it." - 1 Chronicles 21:2
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What does 1 Chronicles 21:2 mean?

1 Chronicles 21:2 (KJV) reads: "And David said to Joab and to the rulers of the people, Go, number Israel from Beer-sheba even to Dan; and bring the number of them to me, that I may know it." The story of David's sin in the numbering of the people is a powerful and significant…

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The Count of Hearts: Trusting in God's Sovereignty Over Our Numbers

In 1 Chronicles 21:2, we capture a brief moment that unveils not just a military operation, but a deeper spiritual misunderstanding: "And David said to Joab and to the rulers of the people, Go, number Israel from Beer-sheba even to Dan; and bring the number of them to me, that I…

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A Prayer for Divine Guidance and Understanding

Heavenly Father, We come before You today, with hearts that yearn for understanding and wisdom, just as King David sought to enumerate the people of Israel in 1 Chronicles 21:2, when he called upon Joab and the rulers of the people saying, "Go, number Israel from Beer-sheba even…

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1 Chronicles 21:2 - "And David said to Joab and to the rulers of the people, Go, number Israel from Beer-sheba even to Dan; and bring the number of them to me, that I may know it."
2 Chronicles 21:1 - "Now Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David. And Jehoram his son reigned in his stead."
2 Chronicles 20:21
2 Chronicles 21:9
1 Chronicles 1:21 - "Hadoram also, and Uzal, and Diklah,"
1 Chronicles 2:21 - "¶ And afterward Hezron went in to the daughter of Machir the father of Gilead, whom he married when he was threescore years old; and she bare him Segub."
1 Chronicles 8:21 - "And Adaiah, and Beraiah, and Shimrath, the sons of Shimhi;"
1 Chronicles 21:1 - "And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel."
1 Chronicles 24:21 - "Concerning Rehabiah: of the sons of Rehabiah, the first was Isshiah."
2 Chronicles 4:21 - "And the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs, made he of gold, and that perfect gold;"
1 Chronicles 9:21 - "And Zechariah the son of Meshelemiah was porter of the door of the tabernacle of the congregation."
2 Chronicles 21:18 - "¶ And after all this the LORD smote him in his bowels with an incurable disease."
1 Chronicles 21:7 - "And God was displeased with this thing; therefore he smote Israel."
1 Chronicles 21:9 - "¶ And the LORD spake unto Gad, David's seer, saying,"
"Hadoram also, and Uzal, and Diklah," - 1 Chronicles 1:21
1 Chronicles 21:21 - "And as David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David, and went out of the threshingfloor, and bowed himself to David with his face to the ground."
2 Chronicles 21:2 - "And he had brethren the sons of Jehoshaphat, Azariah, and Jehiel, and Zechariah, and Azariah, and Michael, and Shephatiah: all these were the sons of Jehoshaphat king of Israel."
1 Chronicles 23:21 - "¶ The sons of Merari; Mahli, and Mushi. The sons of Mahli; Eleazar, and Kish."
2 Kings 15:21 - "¶ And the rest of the acts of Menahem, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?"
2 Chronicles 24:21 - "And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of the house of the LORD."
1 Chronicles 25:21 - "The fourteenth to Mattithiah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:"
2 Chronicles 23:21 - "And all the people of the land rejoiced: and the city was quiet, after that they had slain Athaliah with the sword."
2 Chronicles 21:8 - "¶ In his days the Edomites revolted from under the dominion of Judah, and made themselves a king."
2 Chronicles 13:21 - "¶ But Abijah waxed mighty, and married fourteen wives, and begat twenty and two sons, and sixteen daughters."
2 Chronicles 21:16 - "¶ Moreover the LORD stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines, and of the Arabians, that were near the Ethiopians:"
1 Chronicles 21:19 - "And David went up at the saying of Gad, which he spake in the name of the LORD."
2 Kings 21:25 - "Now the rest of the acts of Amon which he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?"
1 Chronicles 21:6 - "But Levi and Benjamin counted he not among them: for the king's word was abominable to Joab."
1 Chronicles 15:21 - "And Mattithiah, and Elipheleh, and Mikneiah, and Obed-edom, and Jeiel, and Azaziah, with harps on the Sheminith to excel."