2 Samuel 24:25

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 24:25

And David built there an altar unto the Lord ,.... After he had made the purchase: and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings ; the one to expiate the sin or sins committed, the other to give thanks for the intimation given, that the plague would be stayed upon this: so the Lord was entreated for the land ; was pacified and prevailed upon to remove the pestilence from it; which was signified by fire descending upon the altar of burnt offering, which showed the sacrifice was... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Samuel 24:25

David - offered burnt-offerings - And that these sacrifices were pleasing to the Lord, is evident from a circumstance marked in the parallel place, 1 Chronicles 21:26 ; : David called upon the Lord, and he answered him from heaven by fire upon the altar of burnt-offering. The plague was stalled - Jerusalem did not share in the common calamity, seventy thousand being the whole that were slain throughout the land. This book is unfinished, and requires 1 Chronicles 22, 23, 24,... 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 24:24-25

David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver. In 1 Chronicles 21:25 , "So David gave to Ornan for the place six hundred shekels of gold by weight." There is a superficial, but no real discrepancy between these two narratives. David gave the fifty shekels for the immediate use of the place, and for the oxen and implements. He had no idea at the time of permanently occupying it, and probably the note in the LXX ; interpolated by scribes from the margin into the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Samuel 24:25

( 1 Chronicles 21:26-30 ; 1 Chronicles 22:1 ).—( MORIAH .) The new altar. "And David built there an altar unto Jehovah," etc. 1 . An altar was a place of sacrifice ( Genesis 4:3 , Genesis 4:4 ; Genesis 8:20 ; Genesis 22:14 ); consisting (according to Divine direction, Exodus 20:24 , Exodus 20:25 ) of earth or unhewn stone, and constituting (according to Divine assurance) a point of meeting or reconciliation between God and men; the offerings which it sustained and... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Samuel 24:25

Efficacious sacrifices. These sacrifices of David illustrate the nature and purpose of such offerings under the Law. David acted in obedience to a message from God ( 2 Samuel 24:18 ). He did not offer sacrifices in order to render God merciful; it was the mercy of God which originated them. It was because he would stay the destroying pestilence that he directed David to offer them. Still, the sacrifices were a condition of the exercise of his mercy. It was when they had been offered that... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Samuel 24:25

2 Samuel 24:25. David offered burnt-offerings and peace-offerings Burnt- offerings were, in effect, prayers to God, that he would remove this plague and peace-offerings were acknowledgments of God’s goodness, who had already given David hopes of this mercy. Delaney supposes that the ninety- first Psalm was written by David in commemoration of his deliverance from this calamity. As the history of David is the principal subject of the two books of Samuel, and as his is a very distinguished... 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 24:25

there . See note on 1 Chronicles 22:1 . read more

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