And again the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he moved David against them to say, Go, number Israel and Judah. Ver. 1. _And again the anger of the Lord._] Again, after the late three years' famine for Saul's sin, and the late slaughter of twenty thousand for rebelling with Absalom... [ Continue Reading ]
For the king said to Joab the captain of the host, which [was] with him, Go now through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan even to Beersheba, and number ye the people, that I may know the number of the people. Ver. 2. _That I may know the number of the people._] As I have lately taken notice and ma... [ Continue Reading ]
And Joab said unto the king, Now the LORD thy God add unto the people, how many soever they be, an hundredfold, and that the eyes of my lord the king may see [it]: but why doth my lord the king delight in this thing? Ver. 3. _And Joab said._] His conscience told him that David did this out of curio... [ Continue Reading ]
Notwithstanding the king's word prevailed against Joab, and against the captains of the host. And Joab and the captains of the host went out from the presence of the king, to number the people of Israel. Ver. 4. Notwithstanding the king's word prevailed.] He would have his way _contra gentes; _ and... [ Continue Reading ]
And they passed over Jordan, and pitched in Aroer, on the right side of the city that [lieth] in the midst of the river of Gad, and toward Jazer: Ver. 5. _And pitched in Aroer._] A city of the Gadites. Num 32:34 Here they pitched with their bands and troops, probably to overawe the people, who migh... [ Continue Reading ]
_Then they came to Gilead, and to the land of Tahtimhodshi; and they came to Danjaan, and about to Zidon,_ Ver. 6. _To the land of Tahtimhodshi._] _In terram inferiorem recens comparatam,_ into the lower lands recently conquered; _sc., _ in the days of Saul, 1Ch 5:10 so Junius rendereth, and senset... [ Continue Reading ]
And came to the strong hold of Tyre, and to all the cities of the Hivites, and of the Canaanites: and they went out to the south of Judah, [even] to Beersheba. Ver. 7. _And to all the cities of the Hivites._] Who would dwell among the Israelites, and could not be gotten out. Jdg 1:31-32 So nothing... [ Continue Reading ]
So when they had gone through all the land, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days. Ver. 8. _At the end of nine months and twenty days._] So long lay David in his sin unrepented of. It hath before been noted that God's children may not only be drenched in the waves of sin,... [ Continue Reading ]
And Joab gave up the sum of the number of the people unto the king: and there were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men that drew the sword; and the men of Judah [were] five hundred thousand men. Ver. 9. _And there were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men._] Another prophet saith,... [ Continue Reading ]
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. Ver. 10. And David's heart smote him.] His heart had pr... [ Continue Reading ]
For when David was up in the morning, the word of the LORD came unto the prophet Gad, David's seer, saying, Ver. 11. _And when David was up in the morning._] Having prayed the night afore in faith, that God would take away his iniquity, and own him for his servant, for he knew that he had deserved... [ Continue Reading ]
Go and say unto David, Thus saith the LORD, I offer thee three [things]; choose thee one of them, that I may [do it] unto thee. Ver. 12. _Go and say unto David._] Plain David, now. Once it was, Go tell my servant David, 2Sa 7:5 but now the case is altered. So when Israel had set up an idol, then Go... [ Continue Reading ]
So Gad came to David, and told him, and said unto him, Shall seven years of famine come unto thee in thy land? or wilt thou flee three months before thine enemies, while they pursue thee? or that there be three days' pestilence in thy land? now advise, and see what answer I shall return to him that... [ Continue Reading ]
And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let us fall now into the hand of the LORD; for his mercies [are] great: and let me not fall into the hand of man. Ver. 14. _I am in a great strait._] Great sins bring great snares, as on Samson. And of the wicked Job saith, that "in the fulness of hi... [ Continue Reading ]
So the LORD sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning even to the time appointed: and there died of the people from Dan even to Beersheba seventy thousand men. Ver. 15. _From the morning, even to the appointed time,_] _i.e., _ Till toward the evening of the third day; for before that whole day... [ Continue Reading ]
And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough: stay now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD was by the threshingplace of Araunah the Jebusite. Ver. 16. _And when the angel st... [ Continue Reading ]
And David spake unto the LORD when he saw the angel that smote the people, and said, Lo, I have sinned, and I have done wickedly: but these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, be against me, and against my father's house. Ver. 17. _The angel that smote the people._] For the kin... [ Continue Reading ]
_And Gad came that day to David, and said unto him, Go up, rear an altar unto the LORD in the threshingfloor of Araunah the Jebusite._ Ver. 18. _And Gad came._] By the command of God's angel, 1Ch 21:18 after that David and the elders had humbled themselves and prayed (ib.), and after that Zadok the... [ Continue Reading ]
And David, according to the saying of Gad, went up as the LORD commanded. Ver. 19. _Went up, as the Lord commanded._] This figured out, say some, _a_ the faith amongst the Gentries, to whom the Jews must come by believing in like manner, if ever they will be saved. _ a_ Pet. Martyr.... [ Continue Reading ]
And Araunah looked, and saw the king and his servants coming on toward him: and Araunah went out, and bowed himself before the king on his face upon the ground. Ver. 20. _And Araunah looked and saw the king._] After that he had first seen the angel, 1Ch 21:20 whom scarce any of the Israelites, exce... [ Continue Reading ]
And Araunah said, Wherefore is my lord the king come to his servant? And David said, To buy the threshingfloor of thee, to build an altar unto the LORD, that the plague may be stayed from the people. _Ver. 21 Wherefore is my lord the king come to his servant?_] This, he thought, was _stupenda digna... [ Continue Reading ]
And Araunah said unto David, Let my lord the king take and offer up what [seemeth] good unto him: behold, [here be] oxen for burnt sacrifice, and threshing instruments and [other] instruments of the oxen for wood. Ver. 22. _Let my lord the king take and offer up._] In this fright, and for expeditio... [ Continue Reading ]
All these [things] did Araunah, [as] a king, give unto the king. And Araunah said unto the king, The LORD thy God accept thee. Ver. 23. _All these things did Araunah as a king give unto the king._] He had a princely spirit, though but a subject's purse: _Regum aequabat opes animis,_ as Virgil saith... [ Continue Reading ]
And the king said unto Araunah, Nay; but I will surely buy [it] of thee at a price: neither will I offer burnt offerings unto the LORD my God of that which doth cost me nothing. So David bought the threshingfloor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver. Ver. 24. _Nay, but I will surely buy it of t... [ Continue Reading ]
And David built there an altar unto the LORD, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. So the LORD was intreated for the land, and the plague was stayed from Israel. Ver. 25. _And David built there an altar._] A type of Christ, the true altar, Heb 13:10 who was also to offer up himself as a... [ Continue Reading ]