1 Chronicles 21
1 David, tempted by Satan, forces Joab to number the people.
5 The number of the people being brought, David repents of it.
9 David having three plagues propounded by God, chooses the pestilence.
14 After the death of seventy thousand, David by repentance prevents the destruction of Jerusalem.
18 David, by Gad's direction, purchases Ornan's threshing- floor; where having built an altar, God gives a sign of his favour by fire, and stays the plague.
28 David sacrifices there, being restrained from Gibeon by fear of the angel.
adversary <07854> [A.M. 2987. B.C. 1017. An. Ex. Is. 474. Satan.]
inciting David <01732 05496> [provoked David.]
Joab <03097> [Joab.]
Beer Sheba <0884> [Beer-sheba.]
bring <0935> [bring.]
know <03045> [that I may.]
Lord <03068> [The Lord.]
judgment <0819> [why will.]
king's <04428> [the king's.]
Joab's .... Joab <03097> [Wherefore.]
traveled <01980> [and went.]
1,100,000 ....... 470,000 <0505> [a thousand.]
The Syriac has 800,000 as in the parallel passage of Samuel.
Levi <03878> [Levi.]
Joab <03097> [Joab.]
God <0430 03415 01697> [And God was displeased with this thing. Heb. And it was evil in the eyes of God concerning this thing.]
attacked <05221> [he smote.]
sinned <02398> [I have sinned.]
remove <05674> [do away.]
greatly ... doing ............... very <06213 03966> [I have done.]
Gad <01410> [Gad.]
three forms <05186 07969> [offer thee. Heb. stretch out. choose.]
<06213> [that I may.]
Pick <06901> [Choose thee. Heb. Take to thee.]
three .... famine ... three ............... three <07458 07969> [three year's famine.]
In 2 Sa 24:13, it is seven years; but the Septuagint has there [tria <\\See definition 5140\\> ete,] three years, as here; which is, no doubt, the true reading; the letter [Zayin,] {zayin,} seven, being mistaken for [Giymel,] {gimmel,} three.
chased <05595> [to be destroyed.]
swords ........ by <02719> [the sword.]
plague <01698> [even the pestilence.]
messenger <04397> [the angel.]
decide <07200> [Now therefore.]
very ............... very <03966> [I am in.]
prefer .................... attacked <05307> [let me fall.]
David here acted nobly: had he chosen war, his personal safety was in no danger, as there was an ordinance preventing him from going to battle; and in famine, his wealth would have secured his and his family's support; but all were equally exposed to the pestilence.
very ............... very great <03966 07227> [great. or, many.]
prefer .................... attacked <05307> [but let me.]
Lord <03068> [the Lord.]
70,000 <07657> [seventy.]
Jerusalem <03389> [unto Jerusalem.]
doing ....... relented .... judgment <05162 07451> [repented him.]
enough <07227> [It is enough.]
Ornan <0771> [Ornan.]
[Araunah.]
saw .... messenger <04397 07200> [saw the angel.]
covered <03680> [clothed.]
threw ...... faces <05307 06440> [fell upon.]
said .......... decided <0559> [Is it not I.]
sheep <06629> [these sheep.]
done <06213> [what have.]
family <03027> [let thine.]
family <01> [on my father's.]
plague <04046> [that they should.]
messenger <04397> [the angel.]
David <01732> [that David.]
up <05927> [went up.]
Ornan <0771> [And Ornan, etc. or,]
When Ornan turned back and saw the angel, then he, and his four sons with him, hid themselves.
David ......... David .......... bowed ... David <07812 01732> [bowed himself.]
Sell .................. pay <05414> [Grant. Heb. Give.]
Sell .................. pay <05414> [thou shalt grant.]
plague <04046> [that the plague.]
have .... master <03947 0113> [Take it.]
oxen <01241> [the oxen.]
insist .... it <07069> [Nay.]
<05375> [for I will not.]
It is a maxim from heaven, "Honour the Lord with thy substance." He who has a religion that costs him nothing, has a religion that is worth nothing; nor will any man esteem the ordinances of God, if those ordinances cost him nothing. Had Araunah's noble offer been accepted, it would have been Araunah's sacrifice, not David's; nor would it have answered the end of turning away the displeasure of the Most High. It was David that sinned, not Araunah; therefore David must offer sacrifice.
built .... altar ................................... altar <01129 04196> [built there.]
called <07121> [and called.]
fire <0784> [by fire.]
Lord <03068> [the Lord.]
back <07725> [he put.]
tabernacle <04908> [the tabernacle.]
Gibeon <01391> [Gibeon.]
afraid <01204> [he was afraid.]
