10And David’s heart smote him after that he had numbered the people. And David said unto Jehovah, I have sinned greatly in that which I have done: but now, O Jehovah, put away, I beseech thee, the iniquity of thy servant; for I have done very foolishly.
2 Samuel 24 closes David's story with a devastating plague and a costly act of worship. David orders a census of Israel, an act that brings God's judgment upon the nation. The chapter wrestles with the difficult relationship between divine sovereignty and human responsibility, as
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