Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Samuel 24:21
And Araunah said, Wherefore is my lord the king come to his servant? And David said, To buy the threshingfloor of thee, to build an altar unto the LORD, that the plague may be stayed from the people.
Wherefore is my lord the king come to his servant? wherefore doth the king do me this honour, and give himself the trouble of coming to me?
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
21. to build an altar unto the Lord,that the plague may be stayedIt is evident that the plague wasnot stayed till after the altar was built, and the sacrifice offered,so that what is related (2Sa24:16) was by anticipation. Previous to the offering of thissacrifice, he had seen the destroying angel as well as offered theintercessory prayer (2Sa 24:17).This was a sacrifice of expiation; and the reason why he was allowedto offer it on Mount Moriah was partly in gracious consideration tohis fear of repairing to Gibeon (1Ch 21:29;1Ch 21:30), and partly inanticipation of the removal of the tabernacle and the erection of thetemple there (2Ch 3:1).
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
And Araunah said, wherefore is my lord the king come to his servant?…. Which both implies admiration in him, that so great a person should visit him in his threshingfloor; that a king should come to a subject his servant, who should rather have come to him, and would upon the least intimation; it was a piece of condescension he marvelled at; and it expresses a desire to know his pleasure with him, supposing it must be something very urgent and important, that the king should come himself upon it: and to this David made answer,
and David said, what he was come for:
to buy the threshingfloor of thee, to build an altar to the Lord, that the plague may be stayed from the people; for though David had acknowledged his sin, and God had repented of the evil he inflicted for it, and given orders for stopping it; yet he would have an altar built, and sacrifices offered, to show that the only way to have peace, and pardon, and safety from ruin and destruction, deserved by sin, is through the expiatory sacrifice of Christ, of which fill sacrifices were typical, and were designed to lead the faith of the Lord’s people to that.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
2Sa 24:21 And Araunah said, Wherefore is my lord the king come to his servant? And David said, To buy the threshingfloor of thee, to build an altar unto the LORD, that the plague may be stayed from the people.
Ver. 21 Wherefore is my lord the king come to his servant? ] This, he thought, was stupenda dignatio, a wonderful condescension. What is it, then, that the great God should come unto us? Psa 101:2 should dwell in us, and walk in us 2Co 6:16 and sup with us? Rev 3:20 should manifest himself to us, and not to the world? Joh 14:22
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Wherefore: 2Sa 24:3, 2Sa 24:18
To buy: Gen 23:8-16, 1Ch 21:22, Jer 32:6-14
the plague: 2Sa 21:3-14, Num 16:47-50, Num 25:8, Psa 106:30
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
2Sa 24:21-22. Wherefore is my lord the king come? Wherefore doth the king do me this honour, and give himself the trouble of coming to me? Behold, here be the oxen Which were employed by him in his present work of thrashing. And instruments of the oxen Their yokes, and the instruments which they drew after them, to beat and press out the corn.
Fuente: Joseph Bensons Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
24:21 And {l} Araunah said, Wherefore is my lord the king come to his servant? And David said, To buy the threshingfloor of thee, to build an altar unto the LORD, that the plague may be stayed from the people.
(l) Called also Ornan 1Ch 21:20.