Introduction
“This chapter,” observes Rawlinson, “covers the same ground as the last chapter of 2 Samuel, but continues the narrative somewhat further, the last four verses (27-30) and the latter part of 1 Chronicles 21:26 being additional to the earlier account. The resemblance to Samuel is throughout less close than usual; the additions are more numerous, the supernatural circumstances of the narrative being brought out into greater prominence, and some remarkable touches of a miraculous character, which are wholly new, being appended. The history is evidently not drawn from Samuel, but from some quite separate document, probably a contemporary account of the occurrence drawn up by Gad.” In this, however, as in other cases, the parallel passages in the different books mutually supplement each other.
See notes on 2 Samuel 24:0.
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