2 Samuel 24:20 NASB

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 24:20

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

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Samuel 24:18-25

The facts are: 1 . The Seer Gad having directed David to rear an altar to the Lord in the threshing floor of Araunah, he proceeds to carry out the instruction. 2 . Araunah, observing the approach of David and his servants, makes obeisance, and desires to know the purport of his visit. 3 . Ascertaining that David desired to buy the threshing floor that he might there entreat for the staying of the plague, he generously offers all that was requisite for the sacrifices, and expresses... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Samuel 24:20

Araunah … saw the king. In 1 Chronicles 21:20 , "saw the angel;" but the text there is apparently corrupt, the difference, moreover, in Hebrew between "king" and "angel" being very slight. The addition there of the story of Araunah's four sons hiding themselves is very lifelike and natural. For these remnants of the aborigines, though tolerated, yet held a very insecure position, as we have seen in the dealings of Saul with the Gibeonites; and the coming of the king with his retinue to the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Samuel 24:20-23

( 1 Chronicles 21:18-23 ).—( MORIAH .) Araunah the Jebusite. Araunah (Aravnah, Avarnah, Aranyah, Ornan) was: 1 . A Gentile by birth; almost the last relic of the Canaanitish tribe whose fortress was taken nearly thirty years before ( 2 Samuel 5:6 ). "He was not slain by David in the siege of Jerusalem, because of the good will he bore to the Hebrews, and a particular benignity and affection which he had to the king himself" (Josephus); with whom, during his exile, he may have... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Samuel 24:20

And his servants - In Chronicles “his four sons,” namely, David’s. It is very possible that David may have taken his sons with him, as well as his elders, and Gad’s original narrative may have mentioned the circumstance, which the compiler of this chapter did not care to specify, and so used the general term “his servants.” read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 24:1-25

The census and its outcome (24:1-25)Israel’s increasing power and prosperity under David may have given David and his people feelings of self-praise, as if they, and not God, had been the cause of this growth. God saw that the time had come to awaken Israel to this sin. Therefore, God allowed Satan to suggest to David that he take a census of the people. David’s pride in his growing nation was apparently what made the suggestion seem such a good idea, but God was going to use the event to... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - 2 Samuel 24:20

looked = looked down. coming on = crossing over. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - 2 Samuel 24:18-25

4. David’s repentance 24:18-25David proceeded to offer sacrifices in response to the prophet Gad’s instructions (2 Samuel 24:18). David needed to commit himself again to God (the burnt offering) and to renew his fellowship with God (the peace offering, 2 Samuel 24:25). God instructed him to present these sacrifices at the place where He had shown mercy (2 Samuel 24:16). David willingly obeyed (2 Samuel 24:19).Araunah (Ornan, 1 Chronicles 21) was a native Jebusite, so probably his land had never... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Samuel 24:1-25

The Numbering of the People, and its PenaltyIn punishment for David’s sin in numbering the people, God sends a pestilence, which slays 70,000 men. In gratitude for the stay of the plague, David erects an altar in the threshing-floor of Araunah the Jebusite.1. Again] This refers to the former occasion mentioned in 2 Samuel 21. He moved] Chronicles states that ’Satan.. provoked David.’ The older account does not enter into the distinction between what God permits and what God causes. This... read more

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

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

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Samuel 24:18-25

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Samuel 24:20

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Samuel 24:20-23

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Samuel 24:20

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 24:1-25

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - 2 Samuel 24:20

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - 2 Samuel 24:18-25

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Samuel 24:1-25

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