Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Chronicles 21:24
For the full price - That is, six hundred shekels full weight of pure gold. read more
1 Crônicas 21:1-26 Nvipt
Adam Clarke
Adam Clarke
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Chronicles 21:26
He answered him - by fire - In answer to David's prayers, God, to show that he had accepted him, and was now pacified towards him and the people, sent fire from heaven and consumed the offerings. read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Chronicles 21:1
EXPOSITION This very important chapter in David's history is the parallel of 2 Samuel 24:1-25 , which contains some details not found here, e.g. the route taken by those who went to number Israel ( 2 Samuel 24:5-8 ), and omits others. This chapter furnishes one of the clearer proofs (in respect of what it supplies, not found in Samuel) that its indebtedness is not to that book, but to a work open as well to the compiler of Chronicles as to the writer of Samuel. Its contents... read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Chronicles 21:2
And to the rulers of the people . So Numbers 1:4 , "And with you there shall be a man of every tribe; every one head of the house of his fathers" (see also 1 Chronicles 27:22-24 ; 2 Samuel 24:4 , 2 Samuel 24:5 ). read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Chronicles 21:3
But my lord the king, are they not all my lord's servants? The place of this perfectly intelligible sentence, indicating that Joab discerned the object of David in desiring the numbering of the people, is occupied in the Book of Samuel by the words, "And that the eyes of my lord the king may see it;" which some for no very evident reason prefer. It was, no doubt, a very radical element of David's sin in this matter that he was thinking of the nation too much as his own servants, instead of... read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Chronicles 21:4
Wherefore Joab departed, and went throughout all Israel, and came to Jerusalem . This short verse stands in the place of all the five verses of 2 Samuel 24:4-8 , with their interesting contents, giving the route which Joab and his assistants took, and the time occupied (nine months and twenty days) to their return. read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Chronicles 21:5
The report of the numbers as given in this verse does not tally with that of the parallel place. Here they are three hundred thousand more for Israel, and thirty thousand fewer for Judah, than there. No really satisfactory explanation of these discrepancies has yet appeared. The somewhat ingenious suggestion that the Chronicle-compiler counted in the standing army (two hundred and eighty-eight thousand, 1 Chronicles 27:1-15 ) for Israel, and omitted from Judah a supposed "thirty thousand,"... read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Chronicles 21:6
Averse to his task as Joab was, he may have been indebted to the memory of the exemption of Levi from census for the idea of enlarging upon it and omitting Benjamin as well. The important contents of this short verse are not found in Samuel, so that we can borrow no light thence. But Benjamin was "the least of the tribes" ( 21:1-23 ), and Peele has suggested that God would not permit the numbers of either of these tribes to be lessened, as he foresaw that they would be faithful to the throne... read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Chronicles 21:7
Smote Israel . These two words serve simply to summarize in the first instance what the compiler is about to rehearse at greater length. The parallel place shows, "And David's heart smote him after that he had numbered the people." Some better power occasioned that smiting. Reflection brought to David's heart and conscience ( 1 Samuel 24:5 ), as often to those of others, restored vitality. The exact circumstances or providences, however, which roused into action the conscience of David are... read more
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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Chronicles 21:20
Ornan turned back , and saw the angel - The Septuagint say, And Orna turned, και ειδε τον βασιλεα , and saw the King. The Syriac and Arabic say, David saw the angel; and do not mention Ornan in this place. Houbigant translates the same reading המלך hammalech , the king, for המלעך hammalach , the angel, and vindicates his version from the parallel place, 2 Samuel 24:20 , where it is said, he saw David: but there is no word of his seeing the angel. But the seeing David... read more