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2 Samuel 24:17

Y David dijo al SEÑOR, cuando vio al ángel que hería al pueblo: Yo pequé, yo hice la maldad; ¿qué hicieron estas ovejas? Te ruego que tu mano se vuelva contra mí, y contra la casa de mi padre.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Angel (a Spirit);   Araunah;   Intercession;   Jerusalem;   Nation;   Ornan;   Plague;   Presumption;   Repentance;   Self-Condemnation;   Sin;   Threshing;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Anger of God, the;   Judgments;   Sheep;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Gad;   Joab;   Moriah;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - David;   Flock;   Samuel, First and Second, Theology of;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Angel;   Gad;   Jebusites;   Jerusalem;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Agriculture;   Gad (2);   Jerusalem;   Melchizedek;   Prayer;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Angel;   Araunah;   Hittites and Hivites;   Intercession;   Jebusites;   King, Kingship;   Samuel, Books of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Angel;   Genealogy;   Jebus, Jebusites;   Prayer;   Samuel, Books of;   Sin;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Araunah ;   Gad, the Prophet;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Gad;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - David;   Jebus;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Gad;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Moriah;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Destroyer;   Guilt;   Intercession;   Wrath (Anger);   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Angels;  

Parallel Translations

La Biblia de las Americas
Entonces David habló al Señor , cuando vio al ángel que hería al pueblo, y dijo: He aquí, yo soy el que ha pecado, y yo soy el que ha hecho mal; pero estas ovejas, ¿qué han hecho? Te ruego que tu mano caiga sobre mí y sobre la casa de mi padre.
La Biblia Reina-Valera
Samuel 24:17"> 17 Y David dijo á Jehová, cuando vió al ángel que hería al pueblo: Yo pequé, yo hice la maldad: ¿qué hicieron estas ovejas? Ruégote que tu mano se torne contra mí, y contra la casa de mi padre.
La Biblia Reina-Valera Gomez
Y David dijo a Jehová, cuando vio al ángel que hería al pueblo: Yo pequé, yo hice la maldad; ¿qué hicieron estas ovejas? Te ruego que tu mano se torne contra mí, y contra la casa de mi padre.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

spake: 1 Chronicles 21:16, 1 Chronicles 21:17

I have sinned: 2 Samuel 24:10, Job 7:20, Job 42:6, Psalms 51:2-5, Isaiah 6:5

these sheep: 1 Kings 22:17, Psalms 44:11, Psalms 74:1, Ezekiel 34:2-6, Ezekiel 34:23, Ezekiel 34:24, Zechariah 13:7

let thine: Genesis 44:33, John 10:11, John 10:12, 1 Peter 2:24, 1 Peter 2:25

Reciprocal: Genesis 18:23 - Wilt Genesis 20:7 - pray Genesis 38:26 - She hath Numbers 16:22 - one man sin Numbers 16:48 - General Job 19:4 - mine Proverbs 29:8 - wise Jonah 1:12 - Take Micah 7:9 - bear Acts 12:23 - the angel Acts 26:31 - This man Philippians 2:26 - ye had

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And David spake unto the Lord,.... In prayer; he and the elders of Israel being clothed in sackcloth, and fallen on their faces, he prayed, not unto the angel, but to Jehovah that sent him; see

1 Chronicles 21:16;

when he saw the angel that smote the people; in the air over Jerusalem, with a drawn sword in his hand, which made him appear terrible:

and said, lo, I have sinned, and I have done wickedly; in numbering the people:

but these sheep, what have they done? he looked upon himself as the only transgressor, and his people as innocent, and as harmless as sheep; he thought of no sins but his own; these were uppermost in his mind, and lay heavy on his conscience; and it grieved him extremely the his people should suffer on his account: but they were not so innocent as he thought and suggests; and it was not only for his, but their sins, this evil came; he was suffered to do what he did, to bring upon them deserved punishment for their rebellion against him, and other sins; however, this shows the high opinion he had of them, the great affection he had for them, and his sympathy with them in this time of distress:

let thine hand, I pray thee, be against me, and against my father's house; let me and mine die, and not they; a type of Christ, the good Shepherd, willing to lay down his life for the sheep, and suffer in their stead, that they might go free.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Compare the passage in Chronicles. The account here is abridged; and 2 Samuel 24:18 has the appearance of being the original statement.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Samuel 24:17. But these sheep, what have they done? — It seems that in the order of Providence there is no way of punishing kings in their regal capacity, but by afflictions on their land, in which the people must necessarily suffer. If the king, therefore, by his own personal offenses, in which the people can have no part, bring down God's judgments upon his people, (though they suffer innocently,) grievous will be the account that he must give to God. The people generally suffer for the miscarriages of their governors: this has been observed in every age.

Quicquid delirant reges, plectuntur Achivi.

__________________ "When doting monarchs urge

Unsound resolves, their subjects feel the scourge."

HOR. Ep. lib. i., ep. 2, ver. 14. Against my father's house.]


That is, against his own family; even to cut it off from the face of the earth.


 
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