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فَقَالَ الْمَلِكُ لِيُوآبَ رَئِيسِ الْجَيْشِ الَّذِي عِنْدَهُ: «طُفْ فِي جَمِيعِ أَسْبَاطِ إِسْرَائِيلَ مِنْ دَانَ إِلَى بِئْرِ سَبْعٍ وَعُدُّوا الشَّعْبَ، فَأَعْلَمَ عَدَدَ الشَّعْبِ».
التفاسير
مقتطفات جُمعت من تفاسير منشورة لترسيخ القراءة.
Numbering of the People, and Pestilence - 2 Samuel 24 For the purpose of ascertaining the number of the people, and their fitness for war, David ordered Joab, his commander-in-chief, to take a census of Israel and Judah. Joab dissuaded him from such a step; but inasmuch as the king paid no attention to his dissuasion, he carried out the command with the help of the military captains (Sa2 24:1-9). David very speedily saw, however, that he had sinned; whereupon the prophet Gad went to him by the command of Jehovah to announce the coming punishment, and give him the choice of three different judgments which he placed before him (Sa2 24:10-13). As David chose rather to fall into the hand of the Lord than into the hand of men, God sent a pestilence, which carried off seventy thousand men in one day throughout the whole land, and had reached Jerusalem, when the Lord stopped the destroying angel in consequence of the penitential prayer of David (Sa2 24:14-17), and sent Gad to the king to direct him to build an altar to the Lord on the spot where the destroying angel had appeared to him (Sa2 24:18). Accordingly David bought the threshing-floor of Araunah the Jebusite, built an altar upon it, and sacrificed burnt-offerings and thank-offerings, after which the plague was stayed (Sa2 24:19-25). This occurrence, which is introduced in the parallel history in 1 Chron 21 between David's wars and his arrangements for a more complete organization of the affairs of the nation, belongs undoubtedly to the closing years of David's reign. The mere taking of a census, as a measure that would facilitate the general organization of the kingdom, could not in itself be a sinful act, by which David brought guilt upon himself, or upon the nation, before God. Nevertheless it is not only represented…
افتح المصدر ↗24:2 Dan and Beersheba were the traditional northern and southern boundaries of Israel. This phrase meant the entire land of Israel.
افتح المصدر ↗الشواهد المتقابلة
مقاطع أخرى يربطها المجتمع بهذا المقطع أكثر من غيرها. انقر لتقرأها.
لِنَقْلِ الْمَمْلَكَةِ مِنْ بَيْتِ شَاوُلَ، وَإِقَامَةِ كُرْسِيِّ دَاوُدَ عَلَى إِسْرَائِيلَ وَعَلَى يَهُوذَا مِنْ دَانَ إِلَى بِئْرِ سَبْعٍ».
فَخَرَجَ جَمِيعُ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ، وَاجْتَمَعَتِ الْجَمَاعَةُ كَرَجُل وَاحِدٍ، مِنْ دَانَ إِلَى بِئْرِ سَبْعٍ مَعَ أَرْضِ جِلْعَادَ، إِلَى الرَّبِّ فِي الْمِصْفَاةِ.
وَكَانَ يُوآبُ عَلَى جَمِيعِ جَيْشِ إِسْرَائِيلَ، وَبَنَايَا بْنُ يَهُويَادَاعَ عَلَى الْجَلاَّدِينَ وَالسُّعَاةِ،
«هكَذَا قَالَ الرَّبُّ: مَلْعُونٌ الرَّجُلُ الَّذِي يَتَّكِلُ عَلَى الإِنْسَانِ، وَيَجْعَلُ الْبَشَرَ ذِرَاعَهُ، وَعَنِ الرَّبِّ يَحِيدُ قَلْبُهُ.
وَكَانَ يُوآبُ ابْنُ صَرُويَةَ عَلَى الْجَيْشِ، وَيَهُوشَافَاطُ بْنُ أَخِيلُودَ مُسَجِّلاً،
وَصَالَقُ الْعَمُّونِيُّ، وَنَحْرَايُ الْبَئِيرُوتِيُّ، حَامِلُ سِلاَحِ يُوآبَ بْنِ صَرُويَةَ،
فَقَالَ دَاوُدُ لِيُوآبَ وَلِرُؤَسَاءِ الشَّعْبِ: «اذْهَبُوا عِدُّوا إِسْرَائِيلَ مِنْ بِئْرِ سَبْعٍ إِلَى دَانَ، وَأْتُوا إِلَيَّ فَأَعْلَمَ عَدَدَهُمْ».
لِذلِكَ أُشِيرُ بِأَنْ يَجْتَمِعَ إِلَيْكَ كُلُّ إِسْرَائِيلَ مِنْ دَانَ إِلَى بِئْرِ سَبْعٍ، كَالرَّمْلِ الَّذِي عَلَى الْبَحْرِ فِي الْكَثْرَةِ، وَحَضْرَتُكَ سَائِرٌ فِي الْوَسَطِ.
كِبْرِيَاءُ الإِنْسَانِ تَضَعُهُ، وَالْوَضِيعُ الرُّوحِ يَنَالُ مَجْدًا.
وَهكَذَا فِي أَمْرِ تَرَاجِمِ رُؤَسَاءِ بَابِلَ الَّذِينَ أَرْسَلُوا إِلَيْهِ لِيَسْأَلُوا عَنِ الأُعْجُوبَةِ الَّتِي كَانَتْ فِي الأَرْضِ، تَرَكَهُ اللهُ لِيُجَرِّبَهُ لِيَعْلَمَ كُلَّ مَا فِي قَلْبِهِ.