{"id":28047,"date":"2026-05-02T08:25:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T08:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/?p=28047"},"modified":"2026-05-02T08:25:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T08:25:19","slug":"may-2nd-chronological-bible-readings-chronological-bible-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/?p=28047","title":{"rendered":"May 2nd Chronological Bible Readings \u2013 Chronological Bible Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-size: 1.2em\"><strong>2 Samuel 24:1-9; 1 Chronicles 21:1-6; 2 Samuel 24:10-17; 1 Chronicles 21:7-17; 2 Samuel 24:18-25; 1 Chronicles 21:18-22:19<\/strong><\/span><br \/><em><span style=\"font-size: 1.2em\">~ Click here to read today\u2019s Scripture on Bible Gateway ~<\/span><\/em><br \/><span style=\"color: black\"><em>~ Listen to today\u2019s Scripture with <\/em><em>The ESV Bible<\/em><\/span> ~<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-size: 1.2em\">Second Samuel 24 today finishes up with David taking a census, then judgment upon Israel for this sin, and then closing up the book with David building an altar on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.\u00a0 A few things to point out here.\u00a0 First, you\u2019ll note verse 1 starts out with:\u00a0 <em>\u201cOnce again the anger of the LORD burned against Israel..\u201d<\/em>\u00a0 Commentaries suggest that God was likely upset with Israel because of their support of Absalom\u2019s &amp; Sheba\u2019s rebellions.\u00a0 This is why it is thought the plague in this chapter affected Israel and not just David\u2019s house for the sin of the census.\u00a0 The census was a sin because it was not needed at this time in Israel\u2019s history.\u00a0 Censuses were taken in the past for military conscription &amp; review of number of men before a war.\u00a0 But this was not a time of war.\u00a0 The census was a sin because David may have been taking this census just for his own glory\u00a0&amp; pride \u2013 to see how many people were under his reign.\u00a0 Even Joab asked David why he was doing this as we see in verse 3.\u00a0 The overall interesting thing to me about this chapter is that many commentaries suggest that it was placed at the end of the book of Second Samuel for the primary reason of setting the stage for the building of the Temple by Solomon in First Kings.\u00a0 The very interesting note about Araunah\u2019s threshing floor that we read about today is that it is believed to have been located on Mount Moriah!\u00a0 Yes, the same Mt. Moriah where Abraham nearly sacrificed Isaac.\u00a0 And the same spot where the Temple was to be built by Solomon!\u00a0 So, this brings to light the importance of David actually buying the threshing floor from Araunah and not just taking it for free, as was offered.\u00a0 David not only bought the threshing floor to build the altar for the burnt &amp; peace offerings, but he bought the land for the Temple of the Lord to soon be built on by his son Solomon!\u00a0 Pretty interesting to note as we close out this amazing book of Second Samuel.\u00a0 Below is an image of Araunah the Jebusite offering his threshing floor to David:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-size: 1.2em\">Bible.org\u2019s commentary on today\u2019s Second Samuel readings titled <strong>\u201cNeiman Marcus Military, Kmart Christianity? <em>David Comes to His Census<\/em>\u201c<\/strong> is <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1.2em\">at this link<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1.2em\">.\u00a0 (Some days you really have to appreciate the humor in Bob Deffinbaugh\u2019s essay titles!\u00a0 Today is one of those days. \ud83d\ude42<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-size: 1.2em\"><strong>Worship Video:<\/strong> Today\u2019s Psalm reminded me of the song \u201cLord Have Mercy\u201d by Michael W. Smith and Amy Grant:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-size: 1.2em\"><strong>Have you ever prayed Lord Have Mercy?<\/strong>\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1.2em\">Click here for mercy!<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-size: 1.2em\"><strong>Please join us in memorizing and meditating on a verse of Scripture today:\u00a0 <\/strong><em>\u201cDavid was conscience-stricken after he had counted the fighting men, and he said to the LORD, \u2018I have sinned greatly in what I have done. Now, LORD, I beg you, take away the guilt of your servant. I have done a very foolish thing.\u2019\u201d<\/em> 2 Samuel 24:10 NIV<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-size: 1.2em\"><strong>Prayer Point: <\/strong>Pray that you confess your sins to God right away and earnestly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-size: 1.2em\"><strong>Comments from You:<\/strong>\u00a0 What verses or insights stand out to you in today\u2019s readings?\u00a0 Please post up by clicking on the \u201cComments\u201d link below!<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-size: 1.2em\">God bless,<br \/>Mike<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 1.2em\">p.s. Download our monthly Small Group study notes for our Chronological Bible readings at this link.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 1.2em\">p.s. #2 \u2013 Download a schedule of our Chronological Bible readings for the year in PDF format at this link.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 1.2em\">p.s. #3 \u2013 I would greatly appreciate it if you would pray for this Chronological Bible Blog ministry today! Please also consider partnering with us by financially supporting this ministry. Thank you!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2 Samuel 24:1-9; 1 Chronicles 21:1-6; 2 Samuel 24:10-17; 1 Chronicles 21:7-17; 2 Samuel 24:18-25; 1 Chronicles 21:18-22:19~ Click here to read today\u2019s Scripture on Bible Gateway ~~ Listen to today\u2019s Scripture with The ESV Bible ~ Second Samuel 24 today finishes up with David taking a census, then judgment upon Israel for this sin,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28048,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[499,45,46,558,231],"class_list":{"0":"post-28047","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bible-study","8":"tag-2nd","9":"tag-bible","10":"tag-blog","11":"tag-chronological","12":"tag-readings"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}