1 Chronicles 21:15-30 NIV

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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John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Chronicles 21:28

At that time when David saw that the Lord had answered him in the threshing floor Of Ornan the Jebusite ,.... The same with Araunah, 2 Samuel 24:16 , with some small variation of the letters, and are of the same signification; both signifying the "ornus", as Hillerus F13 Onomastic. Sacr. p. 529, 530. observes, the pine tree or ash; see Isaiah 44:14 , in whose threshingfloor David now was, and where he had been praying and sacrificing; and God had accepted his prayer, as the Targum,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Chronicles 21:29

For the tabernacle of the Lord, which Moses made ,.... Or ordered to be made by the command of God, and according to his direction: and the altar of burnt offerings, were at that season in the high place at Gibeon ; which was four or five miles from Jerusalem, and too far for David to go in that time of extremity; though he must have gone thither to sacrifice, had not the Lord bid him build an altar on the threshingfloor; for there was the altar of burnt offering, on which only,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Chronicles 21:30

But David could not go before it to inquire of God ,.... Which yet was the proper place to seek the Lord in: the reason follows: for he was afraid, because of the sword of the angel of the Lord ; which had so terrified him, that he was so weak that he could not go; and he feared that, should he attempt to go, while he was going thither, at such a distance, the angel would make a terrible slaughter in Jerusalem, and therefore he durst not go and leave it; and besides, as the Lord had... read more

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

Adam Clarke

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

Adam Clarke

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

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

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

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Chronicles 21:28

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Chronicles 21:29

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Chronicles 21:30

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

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Chronicles 21:20

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Chronicles 21:24

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Chronicles 21:26

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