📝 Costless Sacrifice Originally on Not Boring The Old Testament’s 2 Samuel tells the tale of King David as he unifies the tribes of Israel and establishes Jerusalem as the nation’s capital. The world was slower then, there were only like 50 to 75 million people around at the time, and so God could be more actively involved in the day-to-day management of human affairs. As, for example, when King David ordered a census of Israel to put a number on its military strength, he angered God, who…