Passage Research
2 Samuel 24 — Sermon Preparation
David takes a census against Joab's advice, bringing a plague on Israel; he purchases Araunah's threshing floor to build an altar, and the plague stops. Below is a research summary for 2 Samuel 24, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.
- 25
- verses
- 456 / 172
- Hebrew words / lemmas
- 6
- classic sermon excerpts
- 2
- preachers & commentators
2 Samuel 24 in the Hebrew
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Hebrew | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | Glosses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| אֲרַוְנָה | ʼĂravnâh | H728 | 9 | Aravnah |
| דָּוִד | Dâvid | H1732 | 15 | David |
| בְּאֵר שֶׁבַע | Bᵉʼêr Shebaʻ | H884 | 6 | Beer-Sheba |
| גָּד | Gâd | H1410 | 6 | Gad |
| עַם | ʻam | H5971 | 10 | people, tribe |
| יוֹאָב | Yôwʼâb | H3097 | 5 | Joab |
| גֹּרֶן | gôren | H1637 | 4 | threshing-floor, open area |
How preachers through history handled this text
6 public-domain excerpts on 2 Samuel 24, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“God's encouraging us to offer to him spiritual sacrifices, is an evidence of his reconciling us to himself. David purchased the ground to build the altar. God hates robbery for burnt-offering. Those know not what religion is, who chiefly care to make it cheap and easy to themselves, and who are best pleased with that which costs them least pains or money. For what have we our substance, but to honour God with it; and how can it be better bestowed? See the building of the altar, and the offering proper sacrifices upon it. …”
— Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible (Concise), on 2 Samuel 24:18–30 (Public Domain)
Places in the text
Based on ancient-geography data
- Beersheba 1— 2 Sam 24:15
- Dan— 2 Sam 24:15
- Jerusalem— 2 Sam 24:16
- Aroer 1— 2 Sam 24:5
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