God. He performed what God had commanded. But he would have offered other voluntary victims at Gabaon, if he had been able. (Calmet) --- The distance shewed the propriety of building the temple at Jerusalem, (Du Hamel) which was nearly in the centre of the country. (Haydock)
Verse 1 Chronicles 21:30. _BECAUSE OF THE SWORD OF THE ANGEL_] This is given as a reason why David built an altar in the threshing-floor of Ornan: he was afraid to go to Gibeon, _because of the sword...
David, knowing that by sacrifice on this altar he had caused the angel to stay his hand, was afraid to transfer his offerings elsewhere, lest the Angel should resume his task and pestilence again brea...
10. THE NUMBERING OF THE PEOPLE AND THE PUNISHMENT CHAPTER 21 _ 1. David's failure in numbering the people (1 Chronicles 21:1)_ 2. David's confession and the message of God (1 Chronicles 21:8) 3....
1 CHRONICLES 21:1 TO 1 CHRONICLES 22:1 THE NUMBERING OF THE HOSTS; THE PUNISHMENT (see notes on 2 Samuel 24:1). There are many variations from the corresponding passage in 2 S., and it is uncertain wh...
AFRAID: i.e. afraid [to delay] because, &c. Otherwise Gibeon was only about eight miles away....
_he was afraid_ Or, HE WAS TERRIFIED. The Heb. word is unusual....
BUT DAVID COULD NOT GO BEFORE IT, &C.— 1:e. David could not delay so long as to go to Gibeon, because he was convinced that God had consecrated the present spot, and that it was necessary to offer sac...
LESSON TEN 21-22 A MILITARY CENSUS AND A PLAGUE 13. DAVID'S MILITARY CENSUS AND ITS CONSEQUENCES (Chapter 21) INTRODUCTION The final serious mistake David made was this military census. God did not...
DAVID'S NUMBERING OF THE PEOPLE AND HIS PUNISHMENT This chapter is parallel to 2 Samuel 24, but includes a few additions: see 1 Chronicles 21:6; 1 Chronicles 21:26....
HE WAS AFRAID] In his alarm David was loath to leave the spot where God's favour had just been renewed to him....
THE BOOK OF 1 CHRONICLES GOD RULES HISTORY 1 CHRONICLES _Ian Mackervoy_ CHAPTER 21 David prepares for the construction of the *temple –...
A parenthesis, relating why it was that David did not rather resort to the ancient Tabernacle, which then stood at Gibeon. (Comp. 1 Chronicles 16:39.)...
BUT (and) DAVID COULD NOT GO BEFORE IT — _i.e.,_ the Tabernacle at Gibeon and the altar of burnt offering (1 Chronicles 16:4; 1 Chronicles 16:37; 1 Chronicles 16:39). To enquire
וְ לֹא ־יָכֹ֥ל דָּוִ֛יד לָ לֶ֥כֶת לְ
SATAN "And again the anger of Jehovah was kindled against Israel, and He moved David against them saying, Go, number Israel and Judah." 2 Samuel 24:1 "And Satan stood up against Israel, and moved Da...
The cause of David's action in numbering Israel is distinctly stated to be Satan. Therein lies a revelation of its nature. The one sin of Satan is that of pride and ambition, and this was the sin of D...
REFLECTIONS READERS let us pause over this chapter to remark what a vast difference we behold in David, from what the former chapter represents him! Is this David, who so enjoyed the gracious manifest...
But prosperity exposes David to the temptations of the enemy. Head over Israel, and conqueror of all his enemies, he wishes to know the strength of Israel, which was his glory, forgetting the strength...
BUT DAVID COULD NOT GO BEFORE IT TO INQUIRE OF GOD,.... Which yet was the proper place to seek the Lord in: the reason follows, FOR HE WAS AFRAID, BECAUSE OF THE SWORD OF THE ANGEL OF THE LORD; which...
_David could not go before it_ Did not dare to go before the tabernacle, where the altar stood. _To inquire of God_ Hebrew, לדרשׁ, _lidrosh, to seek God_, or humbly to entreat his favour by prayer and...
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....
The Sacrifice on Ornan's Threshing-Floor....
But David could not go before it to enquire of God; for he was afraid because of the sword of the angel of the Lord; the appearance of the angel and the great toll of the slain had left an impression...
DAVID COULD NOT, i.e. durst not. _Before it_, i.e. before the tabernacle, where the altar stood. TO INQUIRE OF GOD, Heb. _to seek God_, i.e. humbly to beg his favour by prayer and sacrifice. BECAUSE O...
1 Chronicles 21:30 David H1732 could H3201 (H8804) go H3212 (H8800) before H6440 inquire H1875 (H8800)
David was commanded to go to Ornan, or Araunah, the Jebusite, to rear an altar unto the Lord in his threshingfloor. There had been a terrible plague in Jerusalem, in consequence of David's great sin i...
May the Lord instruct us while we read. Perhaps We shall understand it better if we begin in the 21 st chapter at the 26 th verse. 1 Chronicles 21:26. And David built there an altar unto the LORD, an...
1 Chronicles 21:7. _And God was displeased with this thing;_ This numbering of Israel, which David had carried out in spite of Joab's protest: «God was displeased with this thing:» 1 Chronicles 21:7...
1 Chronicles 21:9. _And the LORD spake unto Gad, David's seer, saying, 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. S...
CONTENTS: David's sin in numbering the people. Joab's faithful protest. David's choice of punishment. CHARACTERS: God, Satan, David, Joab, Gad, Ornan, angel (Jesus). CONCLUSION: God does not judge o...
1 Chronicles 21:1. _Satan stood up against Israel;_ that is, the accuser, or calumniator. 1 Chronicles 21:3. _Why will my lord the king be a cause of trespass to Israel?_ Joab was struck with the sin,...
_And Satan stood up against Israel and provoked David to number Israel._ UNDER A SPELL (Compare 2 Peter 1:21):-- I. All the world seems to be under a spell or charm; inward influences move men as s...
1 CHRONICLES 21:1 David’s Census and Preparation for the Temple. David paves the way for Solomon to build the temple. Even his census (1 Chronicles 21:1), though done out of wrong motives, yields a
CRITICAL NOTES.] The events here given appear in 2 Samuel 24, where the manner in which the census was taken is fully described, which took Joab nine months and twenty days. This narrative is condense...
EXPOSITION This very important chapter in David's history is the parallel of 2 Samuel 24:1, which contains some details not found here, _e.g._ the route taken by those who went to number Israel (2 Sam...
In chapter twenty-one. And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel. And David said to Joab and to the rulers of the people, Go, and number Israel from Beersheba even to Dan...
1 Chronicles 13:12; 1 Chronicles 21:16; 2 Samuel 6:9; Deuteronomy 10:12;...
Afraid — When he saw the angel stand with his drawn sword over Jerusalem, he durst not go away to Gibeon, lest the angel in the mean time should destroy Jerusalem: for the prevention whereof he though...