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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Samuel 24:15

The time appointed - Perhaps “the time of the assembly,” meaning the time of the evening sacrifice, at three o’clock, when the people assembled for prayer, more commonly described as “the time of the evening oblation” Daniel 9:21; 1Ki 18:29, 1 Kings 18:36; Acts 3:1; Luke 1:10.Seventy thousand - It is the most destructive plague recorded as having fallen upon the Israelites. In the plague that followed the rebellion of Korah there died 14,700 Numbers 16:49; in the plague, on account of... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Samuel 24:15

2 Samuel 24:15. So the Lord sent a pestilence upon Israel The event immediately answered to the choice; a plague instantly ensued. From the morning even to the time appointed From that morning, in which Gad came to David, to the third day, the time appointed by God for the continuance of the plague. But not to the conclusion of that day, for we learn from the next verse that God, moved by the repentance of the king and his subjects, commanded the destroying angel to stay his hand, which... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Samuel 24:16

2 Samuel 24:16. The angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem Which he had begun to smite, and in which he was proceeding to make a far greater slaughter. This angel appeared in the shape of a man, with a sword drawn in his hand, to convince the people more fully that this was no natural plague, but one inflicted by the immediate hand of God. The Lord repented him of the evil That is, he in part recalled his sentence of the plague’s continuance for three whole days; and this he did upon... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 24:1-25

The census and its outcome (24:1-25)Israel’s increasing power and prosperity under David may have given David and his people feelings of self-praise, as if they, and not God, had been the cause of this growth. God saw that the time had come to awaken Israel to this sin. Therefore, God allowed Satan to suggest to David that he take a census of the people. David’s pride in his growing nation was apparently what made the suggestion seem such a good idea, but God was going to use the event to... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - 2 Samuel 24:15

time appointed . Septuagint and Syriac say the plague lasted only till noon. So this "time" may mean for the evening sacrifice, 3pm (Compare 2 Samuel 24:18 ). read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - 2 Samuel 24:16

repented . Figure of speech Anthropopatheia. App-6 . evil. Hebrew. ra ` a `. App-44 . Araunah the Jebusite . Perhaps spared in the taking of Jebus. See note on 2 Samuel 5:8 . read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - 2 Samuel 24:15

THE GREAT PESTILENCE CAME; AND DAVID PRAYED TO GOD"So the Lord sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning till the appointed time; and there died of the people from Dan to Beersheba seventy thousand men. And when the angel stretched forth his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, the Lord repented of the evil, and said to the angel who was working destruction among the people, "It is enough; now stay your hand." And the angel of the Lord was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - 2 Samuel 24:15

2 Samuel 24:15. Even to the time appointed— There seems nothing difficult in this passage, as some have supposed: the plain meaning appears to be, that the pestilence, commencing in the morning, continued even to the time appointed; i.e. even to the third day; when God, moved with the repentance of the king and his subjects, commanded the angel, 2 Samuel 24:16 to stay his hand, without continuing to destroy till the evening. read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - 2 Samuel 24:16

2 Samuel 24:16. The threshing place of Araunah the Jebusite— This was on mount Moriah, where the temple of Solomon was afterwards built. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - 2 Samuel 24:15

15. from the morning—rather that morning when Gad came [ :-], till the end of the three days. there died of the people . . . seventy thousand men—Thus was the pride of the vainglorious monarch, confiding in the number of his population, deeply humbled. read more