2 Samuel 24 · Verse 8

2 Samuel 24:8

So when they had gone through all the land, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.

2 Samuel 24:8, King James Version

2 Samuel 24:8 in other translations

BSB	At the end of nine months and twenty days, having gone through the whole land, they returned to Jerusalem.
WEB	So when they had gone back and forth through all the land, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.
ASV	So when they had gone to and fro through all the land, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.
YLT	And they go to and fro through all the land, and come in at the end of nine months and twenty days to Jerusalem,
DARBY	And they went through all the land, and came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.
BBE	So after going through all the land in every direction, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.
Webster	So when they had gone through all the land, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.

What does 2 Samuel 24:8 mean?

Adam Clarke's Commentary

Verse 8 Nine months and twenty days - This was a considerable time; but they had much work to do, nor did they complete the work, as appears from 1Chr 21:6; 1Chr 27:24. William the Conqueror made a survey of all England, particularizing "how many hides or carucates the land is taxed at; whose it was in the time of his predecessor Edward; who the present owners and sub-tenants; what and how much arable land, meadow, pasture, and wood there is, how much in demesne, i.e., held and cultivated by the landowners; how much in tenantcy, and what number of ploughs it will keep; what mills and fisheries; how many sockmen, freemen, co-liberti, cotarii, bordarii, radmanni, radchenisters, villains, maid-servants, and bondmen, there are; how many hogs the woods would support; how many churches, priests, or parsons; what customary rents, prestations, and services, are to be paid and rendered out of the lands; what has been added to the manor; what has been withheld from it, and by whom; what land is waste, and what the whole was let for in the time of King Edward; and what the nett rent, and whether it was too dear rented, and whether it might be improved." This survey was begun in the year 1080, and was finished in the year 1086, six years having been employed in the work. This most important document is still preserved; it is in the Chapter House, Westminster, in two volumes, one in folio, on three hundred and eighty-two leaves of vellum. the other in quarto, on four hundred and fifty leaves; and is in as good preservation as it was seven hundred years ago. This work was much more difficult than that which was performed by Joab and his fellows. The work itself is known by the name Domesday Book.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 2 Samuel 24:1-9

For the people's sin David was left to act wrong, and in his chastisement they received punishment. This example throws light upon God's government of the world, and furnishes a useful lesson. The pride of David's heart, was his sin in numbering of the people. He thought thereby to appear the more formidable, trusting in an arm of flesh more than he should have done, and though he had written so much of trusting in…

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2 Samuel 24:8 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וַיָּשֻׁ֖טוּvai.ya.Shu.tuand they went aboutH7751

בְּכָל\־be.kholin allH3605

הָאָ֑רֶץha.'A.retzthe landH776

וַיָּבֹ֜אוּvai.ya.Vo.'uand they cameH935

מִקְצֵ֨הmik.Tzehfrom [the] end ofH7097

תִשְׁעָ֧הtish.'AhnineH8672

חֳדָשִׁ֛יםcho.da.ShimmonthsH2320

וְעֶשְׂרִ֥יםve.'es.Rimand twentyH6242

י֖וֹםYomday[s]H3117

יְרוּשָׁלִָֽם\׃ye.ru.sha.LimJerusalemH3389

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Context

2 Samuel 24:7
And came to the strong hold of Tyre, and to all the cities of the Hivites, and of the Canaanites: and they went out to the south of Judah, even to Beer–sheba.
2 Samuel 24:8
So when they had gone through all the land, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.
2 Samuel 24:9
And Joab gave up the sum of the number of the people unto the king: and there were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men that drew the sword; and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand men.

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2 Samuel 24:8 in other languages

Spanish Reina-Valera 1909	Y después que hubieron andado toda la tierra, volvieron á Jerusalem al cabo de nueve meses y veinte días.
French Bible J.N. Darby 1885	Et ils parcoururent tout le pays, et revinrent à Jérusalem au bout de neuf mois et 20 jours.
German Elberfelder 1871	Und sie zogen umher durch das ganze Land, und kamen am Ende von neun Monaten und zwanzig Tagen nach Jerusalem zurück.
Latin Clementine Vulgate	et lustrata universa terra, affuerunt post novem menses et viginti dies in Jerusalem.