歴代志上 21:15-18 JC

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 1 Chronicles 21:7-17

David is here under the rod for numbering the people, that rod of correction which drives out the foolishness that is bound up in the heart, the foolishness of pride. Let us briefly observe, I. How he was corrected. If God's dearest children do amiss, they must expect to smart for it. 1. He is given to understand that God is displeased; and that it is no small uneasiness to so good a man as David, 1 Chron. 21:7. God takes notice of, and is displeased with, the sins of his people; and no sin is... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 1 Chronicles 21:18-30

We have here the controversy concluded, and, upon David's repentance, his peace made with God. Though thou wast angry with me, thy anger is turned away. 1. A stop was put to the progress of the execution, 1 Chron. 21:15. When David repented of the sin God repented of the judgment, and ordered the destroying angel to stay his hand and sheath his sword, 1 Chron. 21:27. 2. Direction was given to David to rear an altar in the threshing-floor of Ornan, 1 Chron. 21:18. The angel commanded the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Chronicles 21:1-27

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Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Chronicles 21:15

And God sent an angel - Thus the Targum: "And the Word of the Lord sent the angel of death against Jerusalem to destroy it; and he beheld the ashes of the binding of Isaac at the foot of the altar, and he remembered his covenant with Abraham, which he made in the Mount of Worship; and the house of the upper sanctuary, where are the souls of the righteous, and the image of Jacob fixed on the throne of glory; and he turned in his Word from the evil which he designed to do unto them;... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Chronicles 21:15

And God sent an angel . It is at this point first that any mention of an angel is found in the parallel place, but then not in the present form, but in a sentence which would seem to presuppose the knowledge of the agency of an angel on the occasion: "And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the Lord repented him of the evil" ( 2 Samuel 24:16 ). Stood by the threshing-floor of Ornan . The verb "stood" is employed here quite generically. It does not... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Chronicles 21:16-17

These verses offer instances, especially the former, of the shorter narratives not being with Chronicles, but with Samuel And the longer narrative being with Chronicles is found uniformly in the cases in which reference is had, whether more or less directly, to the ecclesiastical or permanent institution of the Israelites. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Chronicles 21:18

The angel . The Hebrew shows no article (see Numbers 22:34 , Numbers 22:35 ; 1 Kings 13:18 ; 1 Kings 19:5 ; Zechariah 1:9 ). The place where the altar was now about to be erected was that made famous by the sacrifice of Abraham ( Genesis 22:2 , Genesis 22:9 ), and, though less certainly, that known to the priesthood of Melchizedek ( Genesis 14:17-20 ). read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 1 Chronicles 21:16

Here a picture of awful grandeur takes the place of the bare statement of the earlier historian 2 Samuel 24:17. And here, as elsewhere, the author probably extracts from the ancient documents such circumstances as harmonize with his general plan. As the sanctity of the temple was among the points whereon he was most anxious to lay stress, he gives in full all the miraculous circumstances attending this first designation of what became the temple site (marginal reference “k”) as a place “holy to... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 1 Chronicles 21:18

It has been observed that it is only in books of a late period that Angels are brought forward as intermediaries between God and the prophets. This, no doubt, is true; and it is certainly unlikely that the records, from which the author of Chronicles drew, spoke of Gad as receiving his knowledge of God’s will from an angel. The touch may be regarded as coming from the writer of Chronicles himself, who expresses the fact related by his authorities in the language of his own day (see Zechariah... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 1 Chronicles 21:15-16

1 Chronicles 21:15-16. God sent an angel unto Jerusalem to destroy it, &c. This seems to import that there were more angels than one employed to effect this destruction in different parts of the country: and that the angels, sent to Jerusalem, had begun to slay some of its inhabitants. The Lord beheld, and repented him of the evil Probably because he beheld their serious repentance. David and the elders clothed in sackcloth That is, in mourning garments; fell on their faces ... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 1 Chronicles 21:7-17

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 1 Chronicles 21:18-30

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Chronicles 21:1-27

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Chronicles 21:15

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Chronicles 21:15

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Chronicles 21:16-17

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Chronicles 21:18

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 1 Chronicles 21:16

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 1 Chronicles 21:18

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 1 Chronicles 21:15-16

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