Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Samuel 24:20

And Araunah looked, and saw the king and his servants coming on toward him: and Araunah went out, and bowed himself before the king on his face upon the ground.

20. saw the king ] In Chron. saw the angel, but the words angel and king in Heb. are very similar, and probably king is the true reading there also.

went out ] From the threshingfloor where he was at work threshing wheat.

Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

And his servants – In Chronicles his four sons, namely, Davids. It is very possible that David may have taken his sons with him, as well as his elders, and Gads 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.

Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible

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, 1Ch 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, 1Ch 21:20; nor was it thought below great personages in those times to be employed in such work; so Gideon was threshing, when the angel of the Lord appeared to him, Jud 6:11; Boaz winnowed barley in his threshingfloor, Ru 3:2;

and bowed himself before the king with his face to the ground; in reverence of the king.

Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible

(20) Saw the king.Not the angel, as in Chronicles, the words in Hebrew being much alike.

Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)

20. Araunah looked, and saw the king According to Chronicles he, too, had seen the angel, and in their terror himself and his four sons had hid themselves.

Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

2Sa 24:20 And Araunah looked, and saw the king and his servants coming on toward him: and Araunah went out, and bowed himself before the king on his face upon the ground.

Ver. 20. And Araunah looked and saw the king. ] After that he had first seen the angel, 1Ch 21:20 whom scarce any of the Israelites, except David, had yet seen.

And Araunah went out, ] sc., Out of the place where he had hid himself, together with his sons.

Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)

looked = looked down.

coming on = crossing over.

Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics

saw

Here read 1Ch 21:20.

Fuente: Scofield Reference Bible Notes

bowed: 2Sa 9:8, Gen 18:2, Rth 2:10, 1Ch 21:20, 1Ch 21:21

Reciprocal: Gen 23:11 – my lord

Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge