17When David saw the angel about to destroy the people, he prayed, "Please! I''m the one who sinned; I, the shepherd, did the wrong. But these sheep, what did they do wrong? Punish me and my family, not them."
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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