1 Chronicles 21 - Introduction
_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._... [ Continue Reading ]
_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._... [ Continue Reading ]
SATAN STOOD UP— _An adversary stood up._ Le Clerc. See the note on 2 Samuel 24:1; 2 Samuel 24:25. Bishop Warburton observes (perhaps the reader will think with rather too much refinement) upon this passage as follows: "This evil Being [Satan] was little known to the Jewish people till about this tim... [ Continue Reading ]
ALL—ISRAEL WERE A THOUSAND THOUSAND— See on 2 Samuel 24:9.... [ Continue Reading ]
ORNAN THE JEBUSITE— In Samuel, _Araunah:_ there is no great difference between the words in the Hebrew.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND SAW THE ANGEL— _And saw the king._ Houbigant. See the LXX, and 2 Samuel 24:20.... [ Continue Reading ]
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 sacrifice there immediately. REFLECTIONS.—1st, Observe, 1. The greatest saints of God upon earth are b... [ Continue Reading ]