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1 Chronicles 27:24

in 1 Chronicles 27

Joab son of Zeruiah began to count the men but did not finish. For because of this census wrath came upon Israel, and the number was not entered in the Book of the Chronicles of King David.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Joab the son of Zeruiah began to number, but finished not; and there came wrath for this upon Israel; neither was the number put into the account in the chronicles of king David.

KJV

Joab the son of Zeruiah began to number, but he finished not, because there fell wrath for it against Israel; neither was the number put in the account of the chronicles of king David.

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This verse in 1 Chronicles 27

Commentary

6 notes on this verse

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

Neither was the number put in the account - Joab did not return the whole number; probably the plague began before he had finished: or, he did not choose to give it in, as he had entered on this work with extreme reluctance; and he did not choose to tell the king how numerous they were.

This site's exposition

twenty years old and under

on 1 Chronicles 27:23-24

David took not the number of them from twenty years old and under, because the Lord had said he would increase Israel like to the stars of the heavens: the promise of Gen 15:5 is cited as the reason a count was not taken, inside a chapter that is otherwise nothing but a count. The next verse turns the same word toward the census David did take: Joab began to number, but he finished not, because there fell wrath for it against Israel, the full story chapter 21 already carries. Set beside each other, the two sentences read as one lesson: numbering the young for administration stood unpunished, while numbering the men of war brought the wrath the earlier chapter recorded.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Joab was disgusted with it, and did it by halves; David was ashamed of it, and willing it should be forgotten, because there fell wrath for it against Israel. A good man cannot, in the reflection, please himself with that which he knows God is displeased with, cannot make use of that, nor take comfort in that, which is obtained by sin.
Joab the son of Zeruiah began to number,....

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

No notice was taken of this census in the historical register, as from the public calamity with which it was associated it would have stood as a painful record of the divine judgment against the king and the nation.
Because there fell wrath - literally, “And there fell wrath.” The falling of God’s wrath was not the cause of Joab’s ceasing. His motive is clearly stated in 1Ch 21:6. See also the marginal references. Neither was the number ... - The meaning is, that in the portion of the chronicles of King David which treated of numbers - the number of the standing army, of the Levitical and priestly courses, the singers, etc. - the return of the number of the people made by Joab was not entered. The disastrous circumstances which followed on the taking of the census perhaps produced a feeling that God might he further provoked by its being put on record in the state archives. The numbers which have come down to us must therefore have been derived from private sources.

The words behind it

20 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • יוֹאָ֨בJoab

    yoavH3097 →144 times

  • בֶּן־[the] son of

    ben-H1121 →4930 times

  • צְרוּיָ֜הZeruiah

    tzeruyahH6870 →26 times

  • הֵחֵ֤לhe began

    hechelH2490 →143 times

  • לִמְנוֹת֙to count

    limnotH4487 →28 times

  • וְלֹ֣אand not

    velo'H3808 →5168 times

  • כִלָּ֔הhe finished

    khilahH3615 →208 times

  • וַיְהִ֥יand it was

    vayhiH1961 →3559 times

  • בָזֹ֛אתby this

    vazotH2063 →603 times

  • קֶ֖צֶףwrath

    ketzefH7110 →

  • עַל־[was] towards

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵ֑לIsrael

    yisraelH3478 →2507 times

  • וְלֹ֤אand not

    velo'H3808 →5168 times

  • עָלָה֙it went up

    ʾalahH5927 →890 times

  • הַמִּסְפָּ֔רthe number

    hamisparH4557 →134 times

  • בְּמִסְפַּ֥רin [the] number of

    bemisparH4557 →134 times

  • דִּבְרֵֽי־[the] words of

    divrei-H1697 →1440 times

  • הַיָּמִ֖יםthe days

    haiyamimH3117 →2304 times

  • לַמֶּ֥לֶךְof the king

    lamelekhH4428 →2525 times

  • דָּוִֽיד׃ סDavid

    davidH1732 →999 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

8 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Numbers 16:46Moses said to Aaron, “Take your censer, place fire from the altar in it, and add incense. Go quickly to the congregation and make atonement for them, because wrath has come out from the LORD; the plague has begun.”6 worksExodus 30:12“When you take a census of the Israelites to number them, each man must pay the LORD a ransom for his life when he is counted. Then no plague will come upon them when they are numbered.5 works1 Chronicles 21:14So the LORD sent a plague upon Israel, and seventy thousand men of Israel fell dead.3 works1 Chronicles 21:6But Joab did not include Levi and Benjamin in the count, because the king’s command was detestable to him.3 works2 Samuel 24:15So the LORD sent a plague upon Israel from that morning until the appointed time, and seventy thousand of the people from Dan to Beersheba died.3 works2 Samuel 24:1–15Again the anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He stirred up David against them, saying, “Go and take a census of Israel and Judah.”2 works
The other 2 cross-references, with their words ▾
1 Chronicles 21:1–17Then Satan rose up against Israel and incited David to take a census of Israel.2 works1 Kings 14:19As for the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he waged war and how he reigned, they are indeed written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.2 works

About 1 Chronicles

Cedars Are Cut Down for the Jerusalem Temple, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Cedars Are Cut Down for the Jerusalem Temple, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Jamieson Fausset and Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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