And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel. Ver. 1. _And Satan stood up against Israel._] That is, The devil, as Job 1:6 Psa 109:6 Zechariah 3:1,2. Satan signifieth an adversary. So the devil is to God and his people, Revelation 12:9 _; _ Rev 20:2 an adversary at law _a_... [ Continue Reading ]
And David said to Joab and to the rulers of the people, Go, number Israel from Beersheba even to Dan; and bring the number of them to me, that I may know [it]. Ver. 2. _That I may know it._] But what needs that, now that there was a general _aut pax aut pactio,_ peace or truce with all nations? Cur... [ Continue Reading ]
And Joab answered, The LORD make his people an hundred times so many more as they [be]: but, my lord the king, [are] they not all my lord's servants? why then doth my lord require this thing? why will he be a cause of trespass to Israel? Ver. 3. _Why then doth my lord require this thing?_] Or, Deli... [ Continue Reading ]
And Joab gave the sum of the number of the people unto David. And all [they of] Israel were a thousand thousand and an hundred thousand men that drew sword: and Judah [was] four hundred threescore and ten thousand men that drew sword. Ver. 5. _See Trapp on "_ 2Sa 24:9 _"_... [ Continue Reading ]
And God was displeased with this thing; therefore he smote Israel. Ver. 7. _And God was displeased._] Pride flieth in the face of God, when other sinners fly from him; and creature confidence robbeth him of his jewel: hence he so hateth them. 1Pe 5:5... [ Continue Reading ]
And David said unto God, I have sinned greatly, because I have done this thing: but now, I beseech thee, do away the iniquity of thy servant; for I have done very foolishly. Ver. 8. _See Trapp on "_ 2Sa 24:10 _"_... [ Continue Reading ]
Go and tell David, saying, Thus saith the LORD, I offer thee three [things]: choose thee one of them, that I may do [it] unto thee. Ver. 10. _I offer thee._] Heb., I stretch out over thee; I put thee to thy option. This was a great mercy: David must be whipped; but he may choose his own rod. It is... [ Continue Reading ]
Either three years' famine; or three months to be destroyed before thy foes, while that the sword of thine enemies overtaketh [thee]; or else three days the sword of the LORD, even the pestilence, in the land, and the angel of the LORD destroying throughout all the coasts of Israel. Now therefore ad... [ Continue Reading ]
And God sent an angel unto Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he was destroying, the LORD beheld, and he repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed, It is enough, stay now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD stood by the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite. Ver. 15. _Unto Jerusa... [ Continue Reading ]
And David lifted up his eyes, and saw the angel of the LORD stand between the earth and the heaven, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders [of Israel, who were] clothed in sackcloth, fell upon their faces. Ver. 16. _Having a drawn sword in his hand.... [ Continue Reading ]
And David said unto God, [Is it] not I [that] commanded the people to be numbered? even I it is that have sinned and done evil indeed; but [as for] these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, O LORD my God, be on me, and on my father's house; but not on thy people, that they shoul... [ Continue Reading ]
Then the angel of the LORD commanded Gad to say to David, that David should go up, and set up an altar unto the LORD in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite. Ver. 18. _Then the angel of the Lord._] Not the destroying angel, saith Diodate, but the Son of God himself, who did appear to the prophe... [ Continue Reading ]
And Ornan turned back, and saw the angel; and his four sons with him hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat. Ver. 20. _Now Ornan was threshing wheat._] Though he had sometime been a king, as some gather from 2 Samuel 24:23. _See Trapp on "_ 2Sa 24:23 _"_... [ Continue Reading ]
And Ornan said unto David, Take [it] to thee, and let my lord the king do [that which is] good in his eyes: lo, I give [thee] the oxen [also] for burnt offerings, and the threshing instruments for wood, and the wheat for the meat offering; I give it all. Ver. 23. _Lo, I give thee the oxen also._] W... [ Continue Reading ]
At that time when David saw that the LORD had answered him in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite, then he sacrificed there. Ver. 28. _Then he sacrificed there._] There Abraham had sacrificed long before Genesis 22:2 _; _ Gen 22:9... [ Continue Reading ]