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David's Counting of the Nation
Introduction
The final chapter of Sefer Shemuel tells of David's decision to count the nation and the consequent plague that killed 70,000 from Israel. Though the narrative implies that the census was the cause of the ensuing plague, it is not clear what sin David transgressed to deserve such a punishment. How was DAvid's census different than the many others in tanakh which had no similar after effects?
