2 Samuel 24 in the early church

[LXX: 2 Kingdoms; Vulgate: 2 Kings]

66 passages quote, allude to, or echo 2 Samuel 24, grouped by verse; passages on the same verse are in date order. Verse text from the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). References use the Protestant English Bible's numbering, with a writer's own numbering in brackets where it differs.

Verses: 1 · 2 · 10 · 11 · 12 · 13 · 14 · 15 · 16 · 17 · 24 · 25

2 Samuel 24:1

Again the anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He stirred up David against them, saying, “Go and take a census of Israel and Judah.”
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
2 Sam 24:1	Homilies on Numbers 15.3 · Origen	allusion, high confidence	ca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410)
2 Sam 24:1	Against Celsus 4.72 · Origen	allusion, high confidence	ca. 248
2 Sam 24:1	Commentary on Romans 1.16 · Origen	allusion, high confidence	ca. 244–246 (Rufinus's translation ca. 405–406)
2 Sam 24:1	Letter 133.9 · Jerome	allusion, high confidence	ca. 370–419
2 Sam 24:1–15	Apostolic Constitutions 7.35.7 · Anonymous	allusion, medium confidence	ca. 380
2 Sam 24:1	Exposition of Psalm 118 7.22.2 · Ambrose	allusion, high confidence	ca. 386-397

2 Samuel 24:2

So the king said to Joab the commander of his army, who was with him, “Go now throughout the tribes of Israel from Dan to Beersheba and register the troops, so that I may know their number.”
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
2 Sam 24:2	Apology of the Prophet David 4 · Ambrose	allusion, high confidence	ca. 384-390

2 Samuel 24:10

After David had numbered the troops, his conscience was stricken and he said to the LORD, “I have sinned greatly in what I have done. Now, O LORD, I beg You to take away the iniquity of Your servant, for I have acted very foolishly.”
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
2 Sam 24:10	PG 12:1137 (Ps 4 LXX) · Origen	allusion, high confidence	ca. 220-254
2 Sam 24:10	Exposition of Psalm 118 7.22.1 · Ambrose	quotation, high confidence	ca. 386-397
2 Sam 24:10	Exposition of Psalm 118 7.22.2 · Ambrose	quotation, high confidence	ca. 386-397
2 Sam 24:10	Exposition of Psalm 118 17.38.2 · Ambrose	quotation, high confidence	ca. 386-397
2 Sam 24:10	Explanation of Twelve Psalms 37.14.1 · Ambrose	quotation, high confidence	ca. 387-397
2 Sam 24:10	Questions and Answers to the Orthodox 136–138 · Anonymous	allusion, high confidence	5th century (disputed)

2 Samuel 24:11

When David got up in the morning, the word of the LORD had come to Gad the prophet, David’s seer:
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
2 Sam 24:11–16	Homilies on Numbers 16.4 · Origen	quotation, high confidence	ca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410)
2 Sam 24:11	Homily 13 · Gregory of Nyssa	allusion, medium confidence	ca. 390–394

2 Samuel 24:12

“Go and tell David that this is what the LORD says: ‘I am offering you three options. Choose one of them, and I will carry it out against you.’”
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
2 Sam 24:12	Exposition of Psalm 118 14.22.3 · Ambrose	quotation, high confidence	ca. 386-397
2 Sam 24:12	Explanation of Twelve Psalms 37.50.1 · Ambrose	allusion, high confidence	ca. 387-397

2 Samuel 24:13

So Gad went and said to David, “Do you choose to endure three years of famine in your land, three months of fleeing the pursuit of your enemies, or three days of plague upon your land? Now then, think it over and decide how I should reply to Him who sent me.”
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
2 Sam 24:13	Homilies on Numbers 9.8 · Origen	allusion, high confidence	ca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410)
2 Sam 24:13	Homilies on Numbers 15.3 · Origen	allusion, high confidence	ca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410)
2 Sam 24:13	Defence of His Flight 17 · Athanasius of Alexandria	allusion, medium confidence	ca. 357
2 Sam 24:13	Apology of the Prophet David 37 · Ambrose	allusion, high confidence	ca. 384-390
2 Sam 24:13	Exposition of Psalm 118 14.22.3 · Ambrose	quotation, high confidence	ca. 386-397
2 Sam 24:13	Explanation of Twelve Psalms 37.14.2 · Ambrose	quotation, high confidence	ca. 387-397
2 Sam 24:13	Explanation of Twelve Psalms 37.14.3 · Ambrose	quotation, high confidence	ca. 387-397
2 Sam 24:13	Explanation of Twelve Psalms 37.16.1 · Ambrose	allusion, high confidence	ca. 387-397

2 Samuel 24:14

David answered Gad, “I am deeply distressed. Please, let us fall into the hand of the LORD, for His mercies are great; but do not let me fall into the hands of men.”
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
2 Sam 24:14	Apology of the Prophet David 37 · Ambrose	quotation, high confidence	ca. 384-390
2 Sam 24:14	Exposition of Psalm 118 14.22.3 · Ambrose	quotation, high confidence	ca. 386-397
2 Sam 24:14	Exposition of Psalm 118 14.22.4 · Ambrose	quotation, high confidence	ca. 386-397
2 Sam 24:14	Exposition of Psalm 118 17.38.3 · Ambrose	allusion, high confidence	ca. 386-397
2 Sam 24:14	Explanation of Twelve Psalms 37.14.3 · Ambrose	quotation, high confidence	ca. 387-397
2 Sam 24:14	Explanation of Twelve Psalms 37.14.4 · Ambrose	quotation, high confidence	ca. 387-397
2 Sam 24:14	Explanation of Twelve Psalms 37.50.1 · Ambrose	allusion, high confidence	ca. 387-397
2 Sam 24:14	Explanation of Twelve Psalms 40.11.1 · Ambrose	allusion, high confidence	ca. 387-397

2 Samuel 24:15

So the LORD sent a plague upon Israel from that morning until the appointed time, and seventy thousand of the people from Dan to Beersheba died.
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
2 Sam 24:15	Homilies on Numbers 9.8 · Origen	allusion, high confidence	ca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410)
2 Sam 24:15	Homilies on Numbers 16.4 · Origen	allusion, high confidence	ca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410)
2 Sam 24:15–25	Demonstration 4.8 · Aphrahat	allusion, high confidence	337-345
2 Sam 24:15	Letter 133.9 · Jerome	allusion, high confidence	ca. 370–419
2 Sam 24:15	Against Fate, part 8 · Gregory of Nyssa	allusion, medium confidence	ca. 380–394
2 Sam 24:15	Exposition of Psalm 118 14.22.4 · Ambrose	allusion, high confidence	ca. 386-397
2 Sam 24:15	Explanation of Twelve Psalms 37.15.1 · Ambrose	allusion, high confidence	ca. 387-397
2 Sam 24:15	Questions and Answers to the Orthodox 136–138 · Anonymous	allusion, high confidence	5th century (disputed)
2 Sam 24:15	On the Governance of God 6.2 · Salvian of Marseilles	allusion, high confidence	ca. 439-451
2 Sam 24:15	On the Governance of God 7.81 · Salvian of Marseilles	allusion, high confidence	ca. 439-451

2 Samuel 24:16

But when the angel stretched out his hand to destroy Jerusalem, the LORD relented from the calamity and said to the angel who was destroying the people, “Enough! Withdraw your hand now!” At that time the angel of the LORD was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
2 Sam 24:16	Letter 46.2 · Jerome	allusion, high confidence	ca. 370–419
2 Sam 24:16	Apology of the Prophet David 37 · Ambrose	quotation, high confidence	ca. 384-390
2 Sam 24:16	Explanation of Twelve Psalms 37.15.1 · Ambrose	quotation, high confidence	ca. 387-397
2 Sam 24:16	Explanation of Twelve Psalms 37.15.2 · Ambrose	quotation, high confidence	ca. 387-397
2 Sam 24:16	Explanation of Twelve Psalms 37.17.1 · Ambrose	allusion, high confidence	ca. 387-397

2 Samuel 24:17

When David saw the angel striking down the people, he said to the LORD, “Surely I, the shepherd, have sinned and acted wickedly. But these sheep, what have they done? Please, let Your hand fall upon me and my father’s house.”
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
2 Sam 24:17	On the Destruction of Jerusalem 3.16 · Anonymous	allusion, high confidence	ca. 370
2 Sam 24:17	Apology of the Prophet David 38 · Ambrose	quotation, high confidence	ca. 384-390
2 Sam 24:17	Apology of the Prophet David 69 · Ambrose	quotation, high confidence	ca. 384-390
2 Sam 24:17	On the Duties of the Clergy 2.7 · Ambrose	quotation, high confidence	ca. 386–390
2 Sam 24:17	Exposition of Psalm 118 7.22.2 · Ambrose	quotation, high confidence	ca. 386-397
2 Sam 24:17	Exposition of Psalm 118 7.22.3 · Ambrose	quotation, high confidence	ca. 386-397
2 Sam 24:17	Exposition of Psalm 118 14.22.4 · Ambrose	quotation, high confidence	ca. 386-397
2 Sam 24:17	Exposition of Psalm 118 17.6.4 · Ambrose	allusion, high confidence	ca. 386-397
2 Sam 24:17	Exposition of Psalm 118 17.38.3 · Ambrose	allusion, high confidence	ca. 386-397
2 Sam 24:17	Exposition of Psalm 118 18.6.4 · Ambrose	quotation, high confidence	ca. 386-397
2 Sam 24:17	Explanation of Twelve Psalms 35.9.1 · Ambrose	quotation, high confidence	ca. 387-397
2 Sam 24:17	Explanation of Twelve Psalms 37.15.2 · Ambrose	quotation, high confidence	ca. 387-397
2 Sam 24:17	Explanation of Twelve Psalms 37.16.2 · Ambrose	allusion, high confidence	ca. 387-397
2 Sam 24:17	Against Faustus the Manichaean 22.66 · Augustine of Hippo	allusion, high confidence	ca. 398–400
2 Sam 24:17	Questions and Answers to the Orthodox 136–138 · Anonymous	allusion, high confidence	5th century (disputed)

2 Samuel 24:24

“No,” replied the king, “I insist on paying a price, for I will not offer to the LORD my God burnt offerings that cost me nothing.” So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
2 Sam 24:24	Tractates on the Psalms 131.10 · Hilary of Poitiers	allusion, high confidence	ca. 360–367

2 Samuel 24:25

And there he built an altar to the LORD and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. Then the LORD answered the prayers on behalf of the land, and the plague upon Israel was halted.
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
2 Sam 24:25	Apology of the Prophet David 38 · Ambrose	allusion, medium confidence	ca. 384-390
2 Sam 24:25	Exposition of Psalm 118 14.22.4 · Ambrose	allusion, high confidence	ca. 386-397