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F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - 2 Samuel 24:15-25

Judgment Stayed by Sacrifice 2 Samuel 24:15-25 The pestilence swept through the land like cholera or the black death in modern times. At last it approached the Holy City. It seemed as if the angel of the Lord were hovering over it, sword in hand, awaiting the final order. All this is spoken after the manner of men. It is clear, however, that, in answer to David’s penitent faith, a great change came over the scene. If the same faith had been exercised before the plague reached Jerusalem, may... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - 2 Samuel 24:1-25

The Book closes with one other picture, reminding us of the direct government of the people by God in that He visited the king and the nation with punishment for numbering the people. It has been objected that there was nothing sinful in taking a census, seeing that it had been done before in the history of the people by the direct command of God. But in that very fact lay the contrast between previous numberings and this. They were carried out by the command of God. This was done from a very... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Samuel 24:1-25

David Sins By Numbering Israel Resulting In Pestilence From YHWH And A Final Act Of Atonement (2 Samuel 24:1-25 ). The act of numbering the men of Israel would appear to have been seen as an act of rebellion against YHWH. According to 1 Chronicles 27:23-24 YHWH had promised that the number of the children of Israel would be as the stars of the heavens. They were thus not to be numbered arbitrarily (it was permitted in a general way for organisational purposes when mustering to battle but not... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Samuel 24:11-15

YHWH Offers David Three Alternative Chastisements: Famine, War Or Punishment (2 Samuel 24:11-15 ). In response to David’s prayer YHWH offers him a choice from three alternative chastisements, seven years of famine, three months of defeat by an enemy or three days of pestilence. David rejects the central one because he would rather that Israel were in God’s hands rather than man’s, but seemingly leaves YHWH to choose between the other two, and the result was that YHWH sent a three day... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Samuel 24:16-25

YHWH’s Chastisement Is Limited As A Result Of His Mercy As He Shows Compassion On Jerusalem. This Is Followed By David’s Offering Of Atonement Offerings (2 Samuel 24:16-25 ). The Book of Samuel now comes to an end with a description of YHWH’s mercy shown to Israel, and David’s resultant offering of atonement offerings and sacrifices on behalf of Israel. The chastisement of Israel described here will be the pattern of the next few hundred years as they lurch continually from one crisis to... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Samuel 24:1-25

1 Samuel 24. The Census (J). ( Cf. p. 292.)— This event also may belong to the beginning of David’ s reign over all Israel. 2 Samuel 24:1-1 Samuel : . Here is another illustration of the imperfect recognition of the moral nature of Yahweh in the primitive documents. No one is conscious of sin, yet Yahweh, for some inscrutable, arbitrary reason, is angry with His people. Accordingly, He induces David to commit an obvious sin, so that He may have a justification for punishing Israel. It is... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 2 Samuel 24:15

To the time appointed; either, 1. From morning to evening, which is here called the time appointed; or, the time of the convention, or, public meeting, as this Hebrew word oft signifies, i. e. till the time of the evening prayer and sacrifice, when the people used more solemnly to meet together. See Psalms 141:2; Acts 3:1. Thus God mitigated his sentence, and turned three days into one; it being a thing not unusual with God to qualify his threatenings, and to take off the evil threatened... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 2 Samuel 24:16

The angel appeared in the shape of a man with a sword in his hand, 1 Chronicles 21:16, to convince them more fully that this was no natural nor common plague, but inflicted immediately by the hand of God. Upon Jerusalem; which he had begun to smite, and was proceeding to make a far greater slaughter. The Lord repented him of the evil, i.e. he moderated, and in part recalled, his sentence of the plague’s continuance for three whole days, and this he did upon David’s prayers and sacrifices, as... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - 2 Samuel 24:1-25

2 Samuel 24:1. “Again,” Evidently referring to the famine mentioned in 2 Samuel 21:1-14. “Israel.” Some special national guilt not specified must be here referred to. If, as most writers suppose, this occurred in the closing years of David’s life it may be the rebellion under Absalom. “He.” Attempts have been made to translate here impersonally, David was moved, etc.; and in Chronicles the instigation is attributed to Satan. But the grammatical construction will not admit of any other... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - 2 Samuel 24:11-15

DISCOURSE: 328DAVID NUMBERING THE PEOPLE2 Samuel 24:11-15. When David was up in the morning, the word of the Lord came unto the prophet Gad, David’s seer, saying, Go and say unto David, Thus saith the Lord, I offer thee three things; choose thee one of them, that I may do it unto thee. So Gad came to David, and told him, and said unto him, Shall seven years of famine come unto thee in thy land? or wilt thou flee three months before thine enemies, while they pursue thee? or that there be three... read more

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - 2 Samuel 24:15-25

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - 2 Samuel 24:1-25

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Samuel 24:1-25

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Samuel 24:11-15

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Samuel 24:16-25

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Samuel 24:1-25

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 2 Samuel 24:15

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 2 Samuel 24:16

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - 2 Samuel 24:1-25

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - 2 Samuel 24:11-15

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