Midrasz do Samuela II 24:24

One verse states (Ibid. 3) "Is there any number to His angelic hosts?" and another (Daniel 7:10) "A thousand thousands were serving Him, and myriad myriads were standing before Him." How are these two verses to be reconciled? Before they were exiled from their land — "Is there any number to His angelic hosts?" After they were exiled from their land — "A thousand thousands were serving Him." As it were, the celestial retinue was diminished. Rebbi says in the name of Abba b. Yossi: One verse states: "Is there any number to His angelic hosts?" and another, "A thousand thousands were serving Him." How are these two verses to be reconciled? "A thousand thousands were serving Him" — this is one host. And how many hosts are there? — "Is there any number to His angelic hosts?" One verse states (Psalms 147:4) "He counts the number of the stars, (which implies that He calls each by name), and another (Isaiah 40:26) "Raise your eyes on high and see who created these. He brings forth their legions by number; he calls to all of them by name," (which implies that He calls all of them as one). (How is this to be understood?) When the Holy One Blessed be He calls, all answer, something impossible for flesh and blood, to call two names at the same time. Similarly, (Shemot 20:1) "And G-d spoke all of these things (in one utterance) saying, etc.", and (Psalms 62:12) "One thing has G-d spoken; these two have I heard," and (Jeremiah 23:29) "Is My word not like fire, says the L-rd, and like a hammer shattering rock?" Rebbi says in the name of Abba Yossi b. Dostai: One verse states "He brings forth their legions by number, etc.", and another "He counts the number of the stars." How are these two verses to be reconciled? We are hereby taught there is no changing of the (essential) name there. The name that it is called by now is not the name that it will be called by later, (but its "name" is simply a function of its embassy.) And thus is it written (Judges 12:18) "And the angel of the L-rd said to him: Why do you ask my name? It is hidden." I do not know what "name" I will be converted to (in the future). One verse states (II Samuel 24:24) "And David bought the threshing floor and the cattle for fifty silver shekels," and another (I Chronicles 21:25) "And David gave Arnon for the place gold shekels weighing six hundred." How are these two verses to be reconciled? For the place of the threshing floor, six hundred; for the place of the altar, fifty. Rebbi says, in the name of Abba Yossi b. Dostai: One verse states "And David bought the threshing floor, etc." and another verse states "And David gave Arnon for the place gold shekels weighing six hundred." How are these two verses to be reconciled? There were twelve tribes, and he took from each fifty shekels, six hundred shekels in all. R. Elazar says "And David bought the threshing floor," as explained elsewhere. Where? "And David gave Arnon for the place, etc." But the cattle for the burnt-offering and the threshing sledges and the cattle gear for the wood for fifty shekalim. One verse states (I Kings 5:6) "And Solomon had forty thousand stables of horses for his chariots," and another, (II Chronicles 9:28) "four thousand stables of horses." How are these two verses to be reconciled? Four thousand stables for forty thousand (horses). One verse states (Ibid. 4:5) "Its capacity was three thousand bath measures," and another (I Kings 7:26) "Its capacity was two thousand bath measures." How are these two verses to be reconciled? Two thousand in wet measure, which are three thousand in dry measure — whence the sages ruled: Forty sa'ah in wet measure is equal to two kor in dry measure.

Variantly: One verse states "of one of your tribes," and another, "of all your tribes." The money (paid for the site) from all of the tribes, and the place, from one tribe (Benjamin). And thus is it written (II Samuel 24:24) "And David bought the threshing floor and the cattle for fifty silver shekels." And another verse states (I chronicles 21:25) "And David gave to Ornon for the place gold shekels weighing six hundred." How can these two verses be reconciled? There were twelve tribes. He took fifty shekels from each tribe, six hundred shekels in all. Variantly: "of one of your tribes" — (the sanctuary of Shiloh); "of all of your tribes" — (the Temple of) Jerusalem.

R. Shimon says: This was not his intent, but what he said was "I will go to my land and to my kindred," and I will convert the people of my land and of my family. Lest you say he went and did not do so, it is written (I Chronicles 2:55) "and the families of scribes who dwelt at Ya'abetz … These were the Kenites who descended from Chammath, the father of the house of Rechav." And thus is it written (Judges 1:16) "And the children of the Kenite, the father-in-law of Moses, ascended from the city of date palms" (Jericho.) They left a place of fruit, food, and drink, and went to the south of Arad to the desert to learn Torah with Ya'abetz. Who was Ya'abetz? Athniel ben Kenaz. And thus is it written (II Samuel 24:24) "And David bought (on the future site of the Temple) the threshing floor and the cattle for fifty silver shekels." And elsewhere it is written (I Chronicles 21:25) "And David gave Ornan for the place golden shekels, six hundred." It cannot mean (literally,) golden shekels, for it is written "silver shekels." And it cannot mean silver shekels, for it is written "golden shekels." It must mean, then, that he weighed in gold and bought in silver. And it cannot mean fifty, for it is written six hundred. And it cannot mean six hundred, for it is written fifty. It must mean, then, that when David saw the place where it was fitting to build the Temple, he collected fifty shekalim from each tribe; all together, six hundred shekalim.