Bible Commentary

Then David said to Ornan, Grant me the place of [this] threshingfloor, that I may build an altar therein unto the LORD: thou shalt grant it me for the full price: that the plague may be stayed from the people. 22. the place of this threshing floor ] The expression implies perhaps that David bought … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 1 Chronicles 21:22”

And as David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David, and went out of the threshingfloor, and bowed himself to David with [his] face to the ground. 21. was threshing wheat ] By driving oxen over it; cp. 1Ch 21:23. Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges See Gill “1Ch 21:1”. Fuente: John … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 1 Chronicles 21:21”

And Ornan turned back, and saw the angel; and his four sons with him hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat. Verse 20. Ornan turned back, and saw the angel] The Septuagint say, And Orna turned, , and saw the KING. The Syriac and Arabic say, David saw the angel; and do not mention Ornan … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 1 Chronicles 21:20”

And David went up at the saying of Gad, which he spoke in the name of the LORD. See Gill “1Ch 21:1”. Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible (19) At the saying.Samuel, according to. The difference is only that of the one tittle, or small projection, of a letter, mentioned in Mat. 5:18. … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 1 Chronicles 21:19”

Then the angel of the LORD commanded Gad to say to David, that David should go up, and set up an altar unto the LORD in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite. 18. go up, and set up ] R.V. go up, and rear; cp. 2Sa 24:18. Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 1 Chronicles 21:18”

And David said unto God, [Is it] not I [that] commanded the people to be numbered? even I it is that have sinned and done evil indeed; but [as for] these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, O LORD my God, be on me, and on my father’s house; but … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 1 Chronicles 21:17”

And David lifted up his eyes, and saw the angel of the LORD stand between the earth and the heaven, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders [of Israel, who were] clothed in sackcloth, fell upon their faces. 16. lift up ] The old form of … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 1 Chronicles 21:16”

And God sent an angel unto Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he was destroying, the LORD beheld, and he repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed, It is enough, stay now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD stood by the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite. 15. unto … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 1 Chronicles 21:15”

So the LORD sent pestilence upon Israel: and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men. 14. there fell of Israel ] 2 Sam. adds, from Dan even to Beer-sheba. The pestilence was throughout the whole land. Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 14, 15. So the Lord . . . sent anangel unto … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 1 Chronicles 21:14”

And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let me fall now into the hand of the LORD; for very great [are] his mercies: but let me not fall into the hand of man. 13. into the hand of the Lord ] David deprecates war, and prefers famine or pestilence. Fuente: The … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 1 Chronicles 21:13”