The resemblance to the parallel passage in Samuel is throughout less
close than usual; the additions are more numerous, the supernatural
circumstances of the narrative being brought out into greater
p...
1 Chronicles 21:1-27 (2 Samuel 24:1-25)
The Numbering and the Plague
The subject of the present section (David's numbering of the people
and the plague which followed) is a difficult one, but a comb...
_DAVID NUMBERS THE PEOPLE: GOD IS DISPLEASED, AND GIVES HIM THE CHOICE
OF THREE PUNISHMENTS. HE CHOOSES THE PESTILENCE; APPEASETH THE LORD AT
THE THRESHING-FLOOR OF ORNAN._
_Before Christ 1017._...
SUMMARY QUESTIONS
LESSON TEN 21-22
307.
Why did David decide to take a census at this time?
308.
What is the meaning of name Satan?
309.
Why was Joab given this assignment?
310.
Carefully loca...
XXI.
_The census, and consequent plague. The hallowing of the Temple area._
Omitting the magnificent ode which David sang to his deliverer (2
Samuel 22), and the last words of David (2 Samuel 23:1), a...
INTRODUCTION TO 1 CHRONICLES 21
Excepting the three last verses, is contained in 2 Samuel 24:1 with
some few variations, which are there observed; see the notes there....
_A.M. 2986. B.C. 1018._
David causes Joab to number the people, 1 Chronicles 21:1. He
repents, 1 Chronicles 21:7; 1 Chronicles 21:8. God gives him his
choice of three judgments, and he choose
1 Dauid tempted by Satan, forceth Ioab to number the people.
5 The number of the people being brought, Dauid repenteth of it.
9 Dauid hauing three plagues propounded by Gad, chuseth the
pestilence....