1 Crônicas 27:23

23 Davi não contou os homens com menos de vinte anos, pois o SENHOR havia prometido tornar Israel tão numeroso quanto as estrelas do céu.

1 Crônicas 27:23 Meaning and Commentary

1 Chronicles 27:23

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 ^F11, he numbered them that were under twenty, though but sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, or nineteen years of age, provided they were of robust bodies, and of a tall stature, and able to bear arms; which he takes to be the sin of David, in numbering the people, being contrary to the law of God; yet though he had ordered them to be numbered, and they were, yet he would not take them and put them into the account of his chronicles, as in the next verse, that his sin might not be known, see ( 2 Samuel 24:9 )

because the Lord had said, he would increase Israel like to the stars
in the heavens;
which are not to be numbered, and therefore David sinned in attempting to number the people.

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FOOTNOTES:

F11 Lucubrat. Franktall, c. 2.

1 Crônicas 27:23 In-Context

21 da outra metade da tribo de Manassés, em Gileade: Ido, filho de Zacarias;de Benjamim: Jaasiel, filho de Abner;

22 de Dã: Azareel, filho de Jeroão.Foram esses os líderes das tribos de Israel.

23 Davi não contou os homens com menos de vinte anos, pois o SENHOR havia prometido tornar Israel tão numeroso quanto as estrelas do céu.

24 Joabe, filho de Zeruia, começou a contar os homens, mas não pôde terminar. A ira divina caiu sobre Israel por causa desse recenseamento, e o resultado não entrou nos registros históricos do rei Davi.

25 Azmavete, filho de Adiel, estava encarregado dos tesouros do palácio.Jônatas, filho de Uzias, estava encarregado dos depósitos do rei nos distritos distantes, nas cidades, nos povoados e nas torres de sentinela.