Verse 2 Samuel 24:25. _DAVID - OFFERED BURNT-OFFERINGS_] And that these sacrifices were pleasing to the Lord, is evident from a circumstance marked in the parallel place, 1 Chronicles 21:26: _David c...
1 SAMUEL 24. THE CENSUS (J). (_Cf._ p. 292.) This event also may belong to the beginning of David's reign over all Israel. 2 SAMUEL 24:1. Here is another illustration of the imperfect recognition of...
THERE. See note on 1 Chronicles 22:1....
Purchase of Araunah's threshingfloor and erection of an altar there 18. _Gad came_ By direction of the angel, according to 1 Chronicles 21:18. Gad's message was the answer to David's prayer, the annou...
_burnt offerings and peace offerings_ The Sept. adds; "And Solomon added to the altar afterwards, for it was small at the first:" and this, whether merely a gloss or part of the original text, agrees...
_The Plague Stayed._ 2 Samuel 24:16-25 16 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...
_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_ David ... offered burnt offerings and peace...
THE NUMBERING OF THE PEOPLE, AND ITS PENALTY In punishment for David's sin in numbering the people, God sends a pestilence, which slays 70,000 men. In gratitude for the stay of the plague, David erec...
DAVID, THE GREAT KING OF ISRAEL 2 SAMUEL _HELEN POCOCK_ CHAPTER 24 DAVID COUNTS THE *ISRAELITES V1 Again the *Lord was angry with *Israel. He made David cause trouble for the *Israelites. He said...
BUILT THERE AN ALTAR. — The parallel place in Chronicles states that the tabernacle “and the altar of burnt offering were at that season in the high place at Gibeon,” and that David was afraid to go b...
וַ יִּבֶן֩ שָׁ֨ם דָּוִ֤ד מִזְבֵּ֨חַ֙ לַֽ יהוָ
CHAPTER XXXII. _ THE NUMBERING OF ISRAEL._ 2 Samuel 24:1 THOUGH David's life was now drawing to its close, neither his sins nor his chastisements were yet exhausted. One of his chief offences was co...
JUDGMENT STAYED BY SACRIFICE 2 Samuel 24:15 The pestilence swept through the land like cholera or the black death in modern times. At last it approached the Holy City. It seemed as if the angel of th...
The Book closes with one other picture, reminding us of the direct government of the people by God in that He visited the king and the nation with punishment for numbering the people. It has been obje...
_Holocausts; a second time. The former victims had been consumed by fire from heaven, 1 Paralipomenon xxvi. 28. (Calmet)_...
REFLECTIONS READER! with this chapter we close this sacred book of GOD, which brings us in point of historical relation, very nearly, though not completely so, to the end of David's life. Let us not c...
(16) 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...
In the sketch proposed of these books of scripture there is of course no pretension to notice every point of interest they contain, but only a general comprehensive view, as far as the Lord enables me...
Chapter 24 leads us into a subject which requires particular notice. The wrath of God is kindled again against Israel. It is not in the mind of the Spirit to inform us on what occasion this took place...
AND DAVID BUILT THERE AN ALTAR UNTO THE LORD,.... After he had made the purchase: AND OFFERED BURNT OFFERINGS AND PEACE OFFERINGS; the one to expiate the sin or sins committed, the other to give than...
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...
_David offered burnt-offerings and peace-offerings_ Burnt- offerings were, in effect, prayers to God, that he would remove this plague and peace-offerings were acknowledgments of God's goodness, who h...
1 Dauid tempted by Satan, forceth Ioab to number the people. 5 The captaines in nine moneths and twentie dayes, bring the muster of eleuen thousand fighting men. 10 Dauid hauing three plagues propou...
And David built there an altar unto the Lord, and offered burnt offerings and peace-offerings, the latter for the purpose of reestablishing the proper relation between him and the covenant God. SO THE...
THE PESTILENCE...
The reason for God's anger burning against Israel (v.1) is not told us: if there is no public occasion for it, then it must be due to the moral and spiritual condition of the nation. Very likely that...
18-25 God's encouraging us to offer to him spiritual sacrifices, is an evidence of his reconciling us to himself. David purchased the ground to build the altar. God hates robbery for burnt-offering....
DAVID BUILT THERE AN ALTAR UNTO THE LORD; which he might well do, having God's command for it, and the place being sanctified by God's special presence in and by the angel. OFFERED BURNT-OFFERINGS, to...
2 Samuel 24:25 David H1732 built H1129 (H8799) altar H4196 LORD H3068 offered H5927 (H8686) offerings H5930 off
CONTENTS: David's sin in numbering the people. His choice of punishment. CHARACTERS: God, angel (Jesus), Joab, David, Gad, Araunah. CONCLUSION: God does not judge of sin as we do. What appears to us...
2 Samuel 24:1. _The Lord moved David._ He permitted Satan to stand up against Israel. 1 Chronicles 21:1. 2 Samuel 24:9. There were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men that drew the sword; and...
_And David built an altar there unto the Lord._ THE ALTAR AND SACRIFICE The history of David affords us an instructive lesson of the blessings arising out of sanctified affliction, as well as the da...
_So the Lord sent a pestilence._ THE PLAGUE STAYED It was time of peace and prosperity in Israel. King David’s rule had been blessed, and the people dwelt in safety. In the midst of this happy quiet...
_Go, number Israel and Judah._ DAVID NUMBERING THE PEOPLE I. The sin committed by David. It is possible that David dwelt with satisfaction upon the thought of his ample resources and numerous armies,...
2 Samuel 24:1. “AGAIN,” Evidently referring to the famine mentioned in 2 Samuel 21:1. “ISRAEL.” Some special national guilt not specified must be here referred to. If, as most writers suppose, this oc...
EXPOSITION 2 SAMUEL 24:1 AND AGAIN THE ANGER OF JEHOVAH WAS KINDLED AGAINST ISRAEL. It is probable that this chapter once stood in intimate connection with 2 Samuel 21:1; and that the famine therein...
Chapter twenty four, Again the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he moved David against them to say, Go, and number Israel and Judah. For the king said to Joab the captain of the host...
1 Chronicles 21:26; 1 Chronicles 21:27; 1 Samuel 7:17; 1 Samuel 7:9;...