7<\/strong>. he smote Israel<\/em> ] with the plague. David’s confession (1Ch 21:8<\/span>) was probably wrung from him by the appearance of the pestilence.<\/p>\n God was displeased with this thing; <\/B>because this was done without any colour of necessity, and out of mere curiosity, and ostentation, and carnal confidence, as Davids own conscience told him, which therefore smote him, as it is related, 2Sa 24:10<\/span>. <\/P> Therefore he smote Israel; <\/B>which is particularly related in the following verses. <\/P> <\/p>\n See Gill “1Ch 21:1”.<\/p>\n David’s Numbering the People.<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/I><\/span><\/P> <\/TD> B. C.<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN> 1017.<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/P> <\/TD> <\/TR> <\/TABLE> 7 And God was displeased with this thing; therefore he smote Israel. 8 And David said unto God, I have sinned greatly, because I have done this thing: but now, I beseech thee, do away the iniquity of thy servant; for I have done very foolishly. 9 And the LORD<\/B> spake unto Gad, David’s seer, saying, 10 Go and tell David, saying, Thus saith the LORD<\/B>, I offer thee three things:<\/I> choose thee one of them, that I may do it<\/I> unto thee. 11 So Gad came to David, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD<\/B>, Choose thee 12 Either three years’ famine; or three months to be destroyed before thy foes, while that the sword of thine enemies overtaketh thee;<\/I> or else three days the sword of the LORD<\/B>, even the pestilence, in the land, and the angel of the LORD<\/B> destroying throughout all the coasts of Israel. Now therefore advise thyself what word I shall bring again to him that sent me. 13 And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let me fall now into the hand of the LORD<\/B>; for very great are<\/I> his mercies: but let me not fall into the hand of man. 14 So the LORD<\/B> sent pestilence upon Israel: and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men. 15 And God sent an angel unto Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he was destroying, the LORD<\/B> 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<\/B> stood by the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite. 16 And David lifted up his eyes, and saw the angel of the LORD<\/B> 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<\/I> clothed in sackcloth, fell upon their faces. 17 And David said unto God, Is it<\/I> not I that<\/I> commanded the people to be numbered? even I it is that have sinned and done evil indeed; but as for<\/I> these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, O LORD<\/B> my God, be on me, and on my father’s house; but not on thy people, that they should be plagued.<\/P> David is here under the rod for numbering the people, that rod of correction which drives out the foolishness that is bound up in the heart, the foolishness of pride. Let us briefly observe,<\/P> I. How he was corrected. If God’s dearest children do amiss, they must expect to smart for it. 1. He is given to understand that God is displeased; and that it is no small uneasiness to so good a man as David, v.<\/I><\/span> 7<\/span>. God takes notice of, and is displeased with, the sins of his people; and no sin is more displeasing to him than pride of heart: nor is anything more humbling, and grieving, and mortifying to a gracious soul, than to see itself under God’s displeasure. 2. He is put to his choice whether he will be punished by war, famine, or pestilence; for punished he must be, and by one of these. Thus, for his further humiliation, he is put into a strait, a great strait, and has the terror of all the three judgments impressed upon his mind, no doubt to his great amazement, while he is considering which he shall choose. 3. He hears of 70,000 of his subjects who in a few hours were struck dead by the pestilence, v.<\/I><\/span> 14<\/span>. He was proud of the multitude of his people, but divine Justice took a course to make them fewer. Justly is that taken from us, weakened, or embittered to us, which we are proud of. David must have the people numbered: Bring me the number of them,<\/I> says he, that I may know it.<\/I> But now God numbers them after another manner, numbers to the sword,<\/I> Isa. lxv. 12<\/I><\/span>. And David had another number of them brought, more to his confusion than was to his satisfaction, namely, the number of the slain–a black bill of mortality, which is a drawback to his muster-roll. 4. He sees the destroying angel, with his sword drawn against Jerusalem, v.<\/I><\/span> 16<\/span>. This could not but be very terrible to him, as it was a visible indication of the anger of Heaven, and threatened the utter destruction of that beloved city. Pestilences make the greatest devastations in the most populous places. The sight of an angel, though coming peaceably and on a friendly errand, has made even mighty men to tremble; how dreadful then must this sight be of an angel with a drawn sword in his hand, a flaming sword, like that of the cherubim, which turned every way to keep the way of the tree of life! While we lie under the wrath of God the holy angels are armed against us, though we see them not as David did.<\/P> II. How he bore the correction. 1. He made a very penitent confession of his sin, and prayed earnestly for the pardon of it, v.<\/I><\/span> 8<\/span>. Now he owned that he had sinned, had sinned greatly, had done foolishly, very foolishly; and he entreated that, however he might be corrected for it, the iniquity of it might be done away. 2. He accepted the punishment of his iniquity: “Let thy hand be on me, and on my father’s house,<\/I> v.<\/span> 17<\/span><\/U><\/I><\/span>. I submit to the rod, only let me be the sufferer, for I am the sinner; mine is the guilty head at which the sword should be pointed.” 3. He cast himself upon the mercy of God (though he knew he was angry with him) and did not entertain any hard thoughts of him. However it be, Let us fall into the hands of the Lord, for his mercies are great,<\/I> v.<\/span> 13<\/span><\/U><\/I><\/span>. Good men, even when God frowns upon them, think well of him. Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him.<\/I> 4. He expressed a very tender concern for the people, and it went to his heart to see them plagued for his transgression: These sheep, what have they done?<\/I><\/P> <\/p>\n 2Sa 24:10<\/span><\/p>\n (7) And God was<\/strong> displeased.<\/strong>This verse also is not read in Samuel, which has instead, And Davids heart smote him after that he had numbered the people. The peculiarities of expression in Samuel suggest textual corruption. The chroniclers verse is a sort of general heading, or anticipative summary, to the following narrative. The margin rightly renders the first clause (see Genesis 21<\/span> for the same unusual construction).<\/p>\n (7-13) The Divine wrath, declared by Gad the seer.<\/p>\n I refer the Reader to the account as given in the book of Samuel, as also to the Commentary upon it. The relation of this transaction is so similar, that I do not think it necessary to swell the subject. But I beg again and again to repeat, and to enforce it, as much as the outward ministry of the word can accomplish this point, that the Reader will look over the historical part to discover the spiritual. Evidently the fall of our corrupt nature is set forth in this representation. And, no doubt, to make way for that important and most interesting of all doctrines, redemption by Jesus. The burnt-offerings and peace-offerings offered up on the very memorable spot, where afterwards the Lord Jesus Christ offered his soul an offering for sin, most plainly shows how, all along, the Holy Ghost had an eye to this, and accepted the sinner in the complete salvation of the Saviour: and that all the law ministered to the good things to come, to keep up the constant remembrance in the church, that without shedding of blood there is no remission.<\/p>\n 1Ch 21:7 And God was displeased with this thing; therefore he smote Israel.<\/p>\n Ver. 7. And God was displeased.<\/strong> ] Pride flieth in the face of God, when other sinners fly from him; and creature confidence robbeth him of his jewel: hence he so hateth them. 1Pe 5:5 <\/p>\n God. Hebrew. Elohim.(with Art.) = the [true] God. App-4. <\/p>\n 1Ch 21:7. And God was displeased with this thing;<\/p>\n This numbering of Israel, which David had carried out in spite of Joabs protest: God was displeased with this thing: <\/p>\n 1Ch 21:7-15. Therefore he smote Israel. And David said unto God, I have sinned greatly, because I have done this thing: but now, I beseech thee, do away the iniquity of thy servant; for I have done very foolishly. And the LORD spake unto Gad, Davids seer, saying, GO and tell David, saying, Thus saith the LORD, I offer thee three things: choose thee one of them, that I may do it unto thee. So Gad came to David, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Choose thee either three years famine; or three months to be destroyed before thy foes, while that the sword of thine enemies overtaketh thee; or else three days the sword of the LORD, even the pestilence, in the land, and the angel of the LORD destroying throughout all the coasts of Israel. Now therefore advise thyself what word I shall bring again to him that sent me. 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. So the LORD sent pestilence upon Israel and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men. 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.<\/p>\n See the power of the mercy of God; even when the angel has drawn his sword, and is already executing the Lords just judgments, Gods mercy interposes, and holds back the blade of death. Should we not love the Lord for his great longsuffering toward us? He hath not dealt with us after our sins; nor rewarded us according to our iniquities.<\/p>\n 1Ch 21:15-16. And the angel of the LORD stood by the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite. 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. <\/p>\n This was the very best clothing and the very best posture for men who were under the chastising hand of God; they had put on sackcloth, and they had fallen upon their faces. O guilty sinner, if Gods sword of vengeance is drawn against you, you cannot do better than put sackcloth upon your soul, if not upon your body, and prostrate yourself before the Most High.<\/p>\n 1Ch 21:17. 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 those sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, O LORD my God, be on me, and on my fathers house; but not on thy people, that they should be plagued.<\/p>\n Here we see David at his best; and what a true patriot he is! He interposes himself, willing rather that he should be destroyed than that the people should die. This was the spirit of Moses when he said to the Lord, If thou wilt forgive their sin ; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written. And this was the spirit of Paul, when he wrote, I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh. There are times when our great love for others will overflow all bounds of moderation, when we shall say, and say from our hearts, what we should not have dared to utter in cooler moments.<\/p>\n 1Ch 21:18-27. Then the angel of the LORD commanded Gad to say to David, that David should go up, and set up as altar unto the LORD in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite. And David went up at the saying of Gad, which he spake in the name of the LORD. And Ornan turned back, and saw the angel; and his four sons with him hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat. 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. Then David said to Ornan, Grant me the place of this threshingfloor, that I may build as altar therein unto the LORD: thou shalt grant it me for the full price: that the plague may be stayed from the people. And Ornan said unto David, Take it to thee, and let my lord the king do that which is good is his eyes: lo, I give thee the oxen also for burnt offerings, and the threshing instruments for wood, and the wheat for the meat offering; I give it all. And king David said to Ornan, Nay; but I will verily buy it for the full price: for I will not take that which is thine for the LORD, nor offer burnt offerings without cost. So David gave to Ornan for the place six hundred shekels of gold by weight. And David built there an altar unto the LORD, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and called upon the LORD, and he answered him from heaven by fire upon the altar of burnt offering. And the LORD commanded the angel; and he put up his sword again into the sheath thereof. <\/p>\n See what was done by Davids intercession and sacrifice; and remember that there is a greater David who, with a richer sacrifice and mightier intercession, sheathes the sword of God, so that his people are spared.<\/p>\n 1Ch 21:28-30. At that time when David saw that the LORD had answered him in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite, then he sacrificed there. For the tabernacle of the LORD, which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of the burnt offering, were at that season in the high place at Gibeon. But David could not go before it to inquire of God: for he was afraid because of the sword of the angel of the LORD. <\/p>\n (This exposition consisted of readings from 1 Chronicles 21:7-30: And 22.)<\/p>\n And God was displeased with this thing: Heb. And it was evil in the eyes of God concerning this thing, 2Sa 11:27, 1Ki 15:5 <\/p>\n he smote: 1Ch 21:14, Jos 7:1, Jos 7:5, Jos 7:13, Jos 22:16-26, 2Sa 21:1, 2Sa 21:14, 2Sa 24:1 <\/p>\n Reciprocal: Gen 38:10 – displeased Gen 48:17 – displeased him Exo 4:14 – anger Num 22:34 – if it displease thee 1Ki 11:9 – angry<\/p>\n 1Ch 21:7. God was displeased with this thing Because it was done without any colour of necessity, and out of mere curiosity and ostentation, as Davids own conscience afterward told him, which therefore smote him, as is related 2Sa 24:10. Therefore he smote Israel As is particularly related in the following verses. Undoubtedly God did this because Israel concurred with David in the act of numbering the people, and approved of it, as well as because of all their other sins.<\/p>\n And God was displeased with this thing; therefore he smote Israel. 7. he smote Israel ] with the plague. David’s confession (1Ch 21:8) was probably wrung from him by the appearance of the pestilence. 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