But 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.
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Gill's Exposition
But David took not the number of them from twenty years old and under,.... Only those that were twenty years and upwards; but, according to Cornelius Bertram (k), he numbered them that were under…
Barnes' Notes
David’s numbering of the people was therefore a military arrangement in order to fix the amount of his standing army. To the general Oriental prejudice against numbering possessions, etc., there was…
We have here an account,
I. Of the princes of the tribes. Something of the ancient order instituted by Moses in the wilderness was still kept up, that every tribe should have its prince or chief. It…
Cambridge Bible
took not the number (Cp. the note at the head of this paragraph). The Chronicler notices that David conformed to the regulation given in Num 1:3, viz., that only those above twenty years old, and not…
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