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But David didn`t take the number of them from twenty years old and under, because Yahweh had said he would increase Israel like the stars of the sky.
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An Irreverent Calculation
Commentators explain that the census was considered sinful because it attempted to count what God had promised would be uncountable. God had declared He would make Israel as numerous as the stars, so trying to put a number on the people was seen as an act of irreverence and a failure to trust in the magnitude of God's promise.
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1 Chronicles
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18th Century
Presbyterian
David’s numbering of the people was therefore a military arrangement to determine the size of his standing army. In addition to a widespread ancien…
19th Century
Anglican
But David took (Numbers 3:40, nâsâ’mispar) not the number of them. —This and the next verse …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
But David took not the number of them from twenty years old and under Only those that…
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