“_And David’s heart smote him after that he had numbered the people_. _And David said unto the Lord_, _I have sinned greatly in that I have done_: _and now_, _I beseech thee_, _O Lord_, _take away the iniquity of thy servant_; _for I have done very foolishly_.” AT the time here spoken of, David had been, for nearly forty years, king over “_the Lord’s people_.” The youngest of eight sons of one of the shepherds of Israel, and raised from that lowly station to the throne by the express appointment of Jehovah, it may well excite our surprise to observe his conduct on the occasion to which the text refers. We might have supposed that the incidents of his early life, no less than the experience …
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