2 Samuel 24:18-25 NIV

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Samuel 24:22

Here be oxen for burnt-sacrifice - He felt for the king; and showed his loyalty to him by this offer. He felt for the people; and was willing to make any sacrifice to get the plague stayed. He felt for his own personal safety; and therefore was willing to give up all to save his life. He felt for the honor of God; and therefore was glad that he had a sacrifice to offer, so that God might magnify both his justice and mercy. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Samuel 24:23

As a king , give unto the king - Literally, All these did King Araunah give unto the king. That there could not be a king of the Jebusites on Mount Moriah, is sufficiently evident; and that there was no other king than David in the land, is equally so: the word המלך hammelech , "the king," given here to Araunah, is wanting in the Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic; in three of Kennicott's and De Rossi's MSS., and in the parallel place in Chronicles: and, it is very probable,... read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Samuel 24:24

Neither will I offer burnt-offerings - It is a maxim from heaven, "Honour the Lord with thy substance." He who has a religion that costs him nothing, has a religion that is worth nothing: nor will any man esteem the ordinances of God, if those ordinances cost him nothing. Had Araunah's noble offer been accepted, it would have been Araunah's sacrifice, not David's; nor would it have answered the end of turning away the displeasure of the Most High. It was David that sinned, not... read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 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 called upon the Lord, and he answered him from heaven by fire upon the altar of burnt-offering. The plague was stalled - Jerusalem did not share in the common calamity, seventy thousand being the whole that were slain throughout the land. This book is unfinished, and requires 1 Chronicles 22, 23, 24,... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Samuel 24:9-19

( 1 Chronicles 21:9-13 , 1 Chronicles 21:18 , 1 Chronicles 21:19 ). The Prophet Gad. "And when David was up in the morning," etc. Gad had formerly given valuable direction to David ( 1 Samuel 22:5 ); and he must have been now far advanced in life. He was "David's seer," or spiritual counsellor; a true prophet of God ( 1 Samuel 2:27 ; 1 Samuel 3:19 ; 2 Samuel 7:3 ); assisted in the arrangements for the temple service ( 1 Chronicles 9:22 ), and (like Samuel and Nathan)... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Samuel 24:17-19

( 1 Chronicles 21:16-19 ).—( ZION .) Self-devotion. "These sheep, what have they done?" etc. ( 2 Samuel 24:17 ). As through one man many suffer, so through one man many are delivered from suffering and greatly benefited. This is especially the case when, like David, he is their head and representative, the shepherd of the flock of God ( 2 Samuel 24:17 ; 2 Samuel 5:2 ). His numbering the people in a spirit of self-exaltation was the occasion (not the cause, 2 Samuel 24:1 ) of... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Samuel 24:18

Go up. David probably, on receiving God's message, had gone to the tent which he had pitched for the ark in Zion ( 2 Samuel 6:17 ), in order that he might pray there; and while on his way he saw the dark plague cloud coming as the messenger of God's wrath to smite Jerusalem. In an agony of grief, he poured out his prayer that Jerusalem might be spared, and God heard him, and sent Gad a second time to bid him offer sacrifice, that, by making an atonement, he might stand between the dead and... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Samuel 24:18-25

The facts are: 1 . The Seer Gad having directed David to rear an altar to the Lord in the threshing floor of Araunah, he proceeds to carry out the instruction. 2 . Araunah, observing the approach of David and his servants, makes obeisance, and desires to know the purport of his visit. 3 . Ascertaining that David desired to buy the threshing floor that he might there entreat for the staying of the plague, he generously offers all that was requisite for the sacrifices, and expresses... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Samuel 24:20

Araunah … saw the king. In 1 Chronicles 21:20 , "saw the angel;" but the text there is apparently corrupt, the difference, moreover, in Hebrew between "king" and "angel" being very slight. The addition there of the story of Araunah's four sons hiding themselves is very lifelike and natural. For these remnants of the aborigines, though tolerated, yet held a very insecure position, as we have seen in the dealings of Saul with the Gibeonites; and the coming of the king with his retinue to the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Samuel 24:20-23

( 1 Chronicles 21:18-23 ).—( MORIAH .) Araunah the Jebusite. Araunah (Aravnah, Avarnah, Aranyah, Ornan) was: 1 . A Gentile by birth; almost the last relic of the Canaanitish tribe whose fortress was taken nearly thirty years before ( 2 Samuel 5:6 ). "He was not slain by David in the siege of Jerusalem, because of the good will he bore to the Hebrews, and a particular benignity and affection which he had to the king himself" (Josephus); with whom, during his exile, he may have... read more

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Samuel 24:22

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Samuel 24:23

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Samuel 24:24

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Samuel 24:25

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Samuel 24:9-19

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Samuel 24:17-19

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Samuel 24:18

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Samuel 24:18-25

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Samuel 24:20

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Samuel 24:20-23

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