17And David speaketh unto Jehovah, when he seeth the messenger who is smiting among the people, and saith, 'Lo, I have sinned, yea, I have done perversely; and these — the flock — what have they done? Let, I pray Thee, Thy hand be on me, and on the house of my father.'
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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