撒母耳记下 24:5

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

他們過了約旦河，就在谷中那座亞羅珥城的右邊安營。後來他們經過迦得，直到雅謝，

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
他 们 过 了 约 但 河 ， 在 迦 得 谷 中 、 城 的 右 边 亚 罗 珥 安 营 ， 与 雅 谢 相 对 ，

Contextual Overview

¹ The Lord was angry with Israel again, and he caused David to turn against the Israelites. He said, "Go, count the people of Israel and Judah." ² So King David said to Joab, the commander of the army, "Go through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan to Beersheba, and count the people. Then I will know how many there are." ³ But Joab said to the king, "May the Lord your God give you a hundred times more people, and may my master the king live to see this happen. Why do you want to do this?" ⁴ But the king commanded Joab and the commanders of the army, so they left the king to count the Israelites. ⁵ After crossing the Jordan River, they camped near Aroer on the south side of the city in the ravine. They went through Gad and on to Jazer. ⁶ Then they went to Gilead and the land of Tahtim Hodshi and to Dan Jaan and around to Sidon. ⁷ They went to the strong, walled city of Tyre and to all the cities of the Hivites and Canaanites. Finally, they went to southern Judah, to Beersheba. ⁸ After nine months and twenty days, they had gone through all the land. Then they came back to Jerusalem. ⁹ Joab gave the list of the people to the king. There were eight hundred thousand men in Israel who could use the sword and five hundred thousand men in Judah.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Aroer: Deuteronomy 2:36, Joshua 13:9, Joshua 13:16, 1 Samuel 30:28, Isaiah 17:2

river: or, valley

Jazer: Numbers 32:1, Numbers 32:3, Numbers 32:35, Isaiah 16:8, Isaiah 16:9

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 3:16 - Reubenites Jeremiah 48:19 - Aroer

Cross-References

Genesis 24:58
They called her and asked her, "Do you want to go with this man now?" She said, "Yes, I do."

Exodus 9:2
If you refuse to let them go and continue to hold them,

Exodus 20:7
"You must not use the name of the Lord your God thoughtlessly; the Lord will punish anyone who misuses his name.

Proverbs 13:16
Every wise person acts with good sense, but fools show how foolish they are.

Jeremiah 4:2
If you say when you make a promise, ‘As surely as the Lord lives,' and you can say it in a truthful, honest, and right way, then the nations will be blessed by him, and they will praise him for what he has done."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And they passed over Jordan,.... To take the number of the tribes of Reuben and Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh first:

and pitched in Aroer; for it seems that Joab and the captains had the army with them, and the several captains under their command, partly to assist in numbering the people, and partly to keep them in awe, lest they should oppose them, not knowing what was the design of all this Aroer was a city given to the tribe of Gad, and rebuilt by them, Numbers 32:34;

on the right side of the city; that is, of Aroer, the south side of it, as the Targum, did Joab and his army pitch:

that [lieth] in the midst of the river of Gad; which was the river Arnon, so called now from the tribe of Gad, which possessed it, and so the Targum, in the midst of the river of the tribe of Gad; for in the midst of the river Arnon Aroer lay, see Joshua 13:9;

and toward Jazer; another city given to the Gadites, Numbers 32:3; and, according to Bunting u, was sixteen miles from Aroer.

u Travels, &c. p. 147.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Aroer - Aroer on the Arnon (Deuteronomy 2:36 note). Aroer itself stood on the very edge of the precipitous cliff of the valley; and in the valley beneath, possibly in an island in the stream, stood another city which is here alluded to.

River - Rather, “the valley” (margin). They passed from Aroer, northward to Gad, and so pitched at Jazer (see the marginal references), which is on the frontier of Gad and Reuben.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Samuel 24:5. And pitched in Aroer — This was beyond Jordan, on the river Arnon, in the tribe of Gad: hence it appears, says Calmet, that they began their census with the most eastern parts of the country beyond Jordan.