2 Samuel 24:16-25

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 2 Samuel 24:10-17

We have here David repenting of the sin and yet punished for it, God repenting of the judgment and David thereby made more penitent. I. Here is David's penitent reflection upon and confession of his sin in numbering the people. While the thing was in doing, during all those nine months, we do not find that David was sensible of his sin, for had he been so he would have countermanded the orders he had given; but, when the account was finished and laid before him, that very night his conscience... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 2 Samuel 24:18-25

Here is, I. A command sent to David to erect an altar in the place where he saw the angel, 2 Sam. 24:18. This was to intimate to David, 1. That, upon his repeated submission and humiliation, God was now thoroughly reconciled to him; for, if the Lord had been pleased to kill him, he would not have accepted an offering, and therefore would not have ordered him to build an altar. God's encouraging us to offer to him spiritual sacrifices is a comfortable evidence of his reconciling us to himself.... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 24:16

And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it ,.... Which, as it was perhaps the last place where the people were numbered, it was the last to which the plague came: this angel appeared in an human form, standing "between the earth and the heaven"; in the midst of the heaven, in the air, right over Jerusalem: "having a drawn sword in his hand stretched over the city"; as is said in 1 Chronicles 21:16 ; which was done as a menace, and to inject terror into David and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 24:17

And David spake unto the Lord ,.... In prayer; he and the elders of Israel being clothed in sackcloth, and fallen on their faces, he prayed, not unto the angel, but to Jehovah that sent him; see 1 Chronicles 21:16 , when he saw the angel that smote the people ; in the air over Jerusalem, with a drawn sword in his hand, which made him appear terrible: and said, lo, I have sinned, and I have done wickedly ; in numbering the people: but these sheep, what have they done ? he looked... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 24:18

And Gad came that day to David ,.... Ordered and directed by the angel of the Lord, 1 Chronicles 21:18 , and said unto him, go up, rear an altar unto the Lord in the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite : it was too far to go to Gibeon, where the tabernacle was, at such a time of extremity, when the sword of the angel was stretched out over Jerusalem, 1 Chronicles 21:29 ; and this was the most proper place, as it was the very spot over and nearest to which the angel was; and was... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 24:19

And David, according to the saying of Gad, went up as the Lord commanded. From the place where he was in a lower part of the city to Mount Moriah, on which was the threshing floor, a place fit for winnowing corn when threshed. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 24:20

And Araunah looked ,.... Peeped up out of the place in which he had hid himself with his four sons, for fear of the angel, and which they saw, 1 Chronicles 21:20 , and saw the king and his servants coming towards him ; he perceived, by the course they steered, that they were coming to him: and Araunah went out ; of the threshingfloor, out of the place where he had hid himself, for he had been threshing wheat, 1 Chronicles 21:20 ; nor was it thought below great personages in those... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 24:21

And Araunah said, wherefore is my lord the king come to his servant ?.... Which both implies admiration in him, that so great a person should visit him in his threshingfloor; that a king should come to a subject his servant, who should rather have come to him, and would upon the least intimation; it was a piece of condescension he marvelled at; and it expresses a desire to know his pleasure with him, supposing it must be something very urgent and important, that the king should come himself... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 24:22

And Araunah said unto David, let my lord the king take and offer up what seemeth good unto him ,.... Build an altar, offer sacrifices of whatsoever he found upon the premises fit for the same, and make use of whatever came to hand proper to perform such service with, as follows: behold, here be oxen for burnt sacrifice : which were employed in treading the corn, hence the law in Deuteronomy 25:4 , and threshing instruments ; not flails, such as are used by us, but wooden... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 24:23

All these things did Araunah, as a king, give unto the king ,.... The note of similitude as is not in the text; from whence some have thought he was king of the Jebusites before Jerusalem was taken out of their hands, or however was of the royal race, perhaps the son and heir of the then king at that time; or he has this title given him, because of his great liberality, having the spirit of a prince in him, even of a king; so Ulysses addressed Antinous, saying, thou art like a king, and... read more

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