1 Chronicles 21:9

And the Lord (Jehovah) spake unto Gad. — Samuel, “And David arose in the morning. Now a word of Jehovah had come to Gad the prophet, a seer of David, saying — “ This appears to be more original than our text.

David’s seer. — Better, a seer of David’s, for the same title is applied to Heman (1 Chronicles 25:5). For Gad, see 1 Samuel 22:5, and 1 Chronicles 29:29. From the latter passage it has been inferred that it was Gad who wrote the original record of the census.