Read: 2 Samuel 23:24-24:25; Acts 3:1-26; Psalm 123:1-4; Provebs 16:21-23
In the list of David’s thirty mighty men, Uriah, Bathsheba’s husband, was listed as one of them. Israel must have turned from the Lord, because God looked for a way to punish Israel and incited David to number them. One of their sins must have been their pride because God put it in David’s mind to number the fighting men of Israel. Numbering Israel was not the problem, the fact that they were suppose to pay a fee for every soul that they numbered and they didn’t know that since they had gotten away from God’s laws. Exodus 30:12-14 says that when the people are numbered they are to each give a half shekel to the sanctuary so that no plague would come upon them. How ironic that David would choose the plague for his punishment. The plague was brought by an angel and when it got to Jerusalem the Lord stopped it at the threshing floor of Araunah. Araunah means “I will shout for joy.” David bought this place from him and it became what we know as the Temple Mount. David chose this land to build the Temple on. He turned the curse into a blessing.
In Acts, we see the crippled man at the gate of Araunah’s threshing floor and he is healed and shouts for joy. When he drew a crowd, Peter explained that all the prophets spoke of that day when Jesus would come to earth and bring salvation through his blood on the cross. They were heirs of the promise as we are.
Lord, help us to walk in the promises of our day.
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