Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - 1 Chronicles 21:1-30
CRITICAL NOTES.] The events here given appear in 2 Samuel 24:0, where the manner in which the census was taken is fully described, which took Joab nine months and twenty days. This narrative is condensed.1 Chronicles 21:1-6.—Numbering of people. Satan, the Lord in Sam. “Both had their hand in the work—God by permission, Satan by suggestion” [Bp. Hall]. Provoked, stirred up. Trespass (1 Chronicles 21:3), the results of trespass—i.e., punishment. 1 Chronicles 21:4. A summary of five verses of 2... read more
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 1 Chronicles 21:6
Levi and Benjamin counted he not among them; partly for the following reason, and principally by God’s special and gracious providence to these two tribes; to Levi, because they were devoted to his service; and to Benjamin, because they were the least of all the tribes, having been almost extinct, Judges 21:0, and because God foresaw that they would be faithful to the house of David in the division of the tribes, and therefore he would not have them diminished. And Joab presumed to leave these... read more