This command was also evil in the sight of God; so He struck Israel.
Cross References
2 Samuel 15:26But if He should say, 'I do not delight in you,' then here I am; let Him do to me whatever seems good to Him."
1 Chronicles 21:6But Joab did not include Levi and Benjamin in the count, because the king's command was detestable to him.
1 Chronicles 21:8Then David said to God, "I have sinned greatly because I have done this thing. Now I beg You to take away the iniquity of Your servant, for I have acted very foolishly."
Treasury of Scripture
And God was displeased with this thing; therefore he smote Israel.
2 Samuel 11:27
And when the mourning was past, David sent and fetched her to his house, and she became his wife, and bare him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the LORD.
1 Kings 15:5
Because David did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, and turned not aside from any thing that he commanded him all the days of his life, save only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.
he smote
1 Chronicles 21:14
So the LORD sent pestilence upon Israel: and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men.
Joshua 7:1,5,13
But the children of Israel committed a trespass in the accursed thing: for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took of the accursed thing: and the anger of the LORD was kindled against the children of Israel…
Joshua 22:16-26
Thus saith the whole congregation of the LORD, What trespass is this that ye have committed against the God of Israel, to turn away this day from following the LORD, in that ye have builded you an altar, that ye might rebel this day against the LORD? …
