9<\/strong>. And the Lord spake<\/em> ] The historian now retraces his steps to describe the circumstances which heralded the approach of the plague.<\/p>\n Gad<\/em> ] He is three times mentioned in Chron., each time as a “seer,” viz. 1Ch 21:9<\/span> (= 2Sa 24:11<\/span>); 1Ch 29:29<\/span>; 2Ch 29:25<\/span>. He was perhaps an older contemporary of Nathan, who bears the more modern title of “prophet” (cp. 1Sa 9:9<\/span>).<\/p>\n 9. the Lord spake unto Gad, David’sseer<\/B>Although David was himself endowed with a prophetic gift,yet, in matters relating to himself or his kingdom, he was in thehabit of consulting the Lord through the medium of the priests; andwhen he failed to do so, a prophet was sent on extraordinaryoccasions to admonish or chastise him. Gad, a private friend, wasoccasionally employed as the bearer of these prophetic messages.<\/P><\/p>\n See Gill “1Ch 21:1”.<\/p>\n (9) And the Lord<\/strong> (Jehovah) spake unto Gad.<\/strong>Samuel, And David arose in the morning. Now a word of Jehovah had come to Gad the prophet, a seer of David, saying This appears to be more original than our text.<\/p>\n Davids seer.<\/strong>Better, a seer of Davids,<\/em> for the same title is applied to Heman (1Ch. 25:5<\/span>). For Gad, see 1Sa. 22:5<\/span>, and 1Ch. 29:29<\/span>. From the latter passage it has been inferred that it was Gad who wrote the original record of the census.<\/p>\n 1Ch 21:9-11. 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<\/p>\n One of them, that I may do it unto thee. David was to choose where there was no choice, for everything proposed to him seemed to be equally bitter.<\/p>\n 1Ch 21:12-13. 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 the LORD; for very great are his mercies: but let me not fall into the hand of man.<\/p>\n It shows how he was broken down. Davids proud heart was humbled, he was entirely submissive to the will of God, he wished to fall into the hands of the Lord.<\/p>\n 1Ch 21:14-15. 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,–<\/p>\n It is a very beautiful word,-the Lord looked steadfastly on what was being done.<\/p>\n 1Ch 21:15. 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 threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.<\/p>\n One of the old inhabitants of the land, who had escaped destruction, and had his possession on the top of Mount Morah.<\/p>\n 1Ch 21:16-17. 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. 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 fathers house; but not on thy people, that they should be plagued. <\/p>\n Here the great heart of the man who had sinned comes out again: he is no tyrant after all, he is a worthy man to be the Viceroy of the Most High. He has the same spirit that Moses had, when he cried, If not, blot my name out of the Book of Life. He offers himself, not the innocent for the guilty, but, indeed, the guilty for the guilty; as far as he can, he will bear the consequences of his sin.<\/p>\n 1Ch 21:18-20. 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. 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; <\/p>\n He was busy at his threshing, and he saw the angel standing by his own threshingfloor. <\/p>\n 1Ch 21:20. And his four sons with him hid themselves.<\/p>\n There are great caverns hard by the spot, and, no doubt, they ran into one of them.<\/p>\n 1Ch 21:20-23. 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 an 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 in 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.<\/p>\n And as we are told in the other narrative, as a king giveth to a king, so did Araunah unto David. Probably he had been a king, and David had dispossessed him in his conquest of Jebus, but now he proves that he had a royal heart, and he offers to give all to King David.<\/p>\n 1Ch 21:24-25. And king David said to Ornan, Nay; but I will verily buy it for the full price: for I will no 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.<\/p>\n Not paid there and then, for he did not carry that amount with him, but fifty shekels of silver were paid that moment to bind their bargain, according to the narrative in the 2nd Book of Samuel.<\/p>\n 1Ch 21:26-27. 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 That God had already done in his own intent and purpose, now he does it actually, just as before Jesus Christ, our great sacrifice, was offered. God, in the eternal purpose, had stayed the sword of vengeance from his redeemed people, and then actually did it when Christ their sacrifice was presented.<\/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 1Ch 21:9-17<\/p>\n 1Ch 21:9-17<\/p>\n GOD OFFERS DAVID A CHOICE OF THREE PUNISHMENTS<\/p>\n “And Jehovah spake unto Gad, David’s seer, saying, Go and speak unto David, saying, Thus saith Jehovah, I offer thee three things: choose thee one of them, that I may do it unto thee. So Gad came unto David, and said unto him, Thus saith Jehovah, Take which thou wilt: either three years of famine; or three months to be consumed before thy foes, while the sword of thine enemies overtaketh thee; or else three days the sword of Jehovah, even pestilence in the land, and the angel of Jehovah destroying throughout all the borders of Israel. Now therefore consider what answer I shall return to him that sent me. And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let me fall, 50pray thee, into the hand of Jehovah; for very great are his mercies: and let me not fall into the hand of man. So Jehovah sent a 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 about to destroy, Jehovah beheld, and he repented of the evil, and said to the destroying angel, It is enough; now stay thy hand. And the angel of Jehovah was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. And David lifted up his eyes, and saw the angel of Jehovah, standing between earth and heaven, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell upon their faces. And David said unto God, Is it not I that commanded the people to be numbered? even I that have sinned and done very wickedly; but these sheep, what have they done? let thy hand, I pray thee, O Jehovah my God, be against me, and against my fathers’ house; but not against thy people, that they should be plagued.”<\/p>\n E.M. Zerr:<\/p>\n 1Ch 21:9-10. The national prophet was Gad, who was directed to give a message from God to David. (Heb 1:1). The threat of a plague was. already made in the passage in Exodus referred to above. So there must be some form of punishment brought, but God was lenient in that he allowed David to have something to say about it. <\/p>\n 1Ch 21:11-12. Gad told David to select one of the three punishments named. Famine would affect the nourishment of his people; the sword would affect their lives violently; pestilence would affect them through some kind of disease. These three things, “famine, pestilence and the sword,” seem to have been a familiar combination of calamities in the history and prophecies of old times. (Jer 14:12, Eze 5:12.) <\/p>\n 1Ch 21:13. Of the three misfortunes threatened, David regarded the last as offering the greatest opportunity for the Lord’s mercy. He had much confidence in the divine compassion, therefore he chose that proposal. <\/p>\n 1Ch 21:14. The first effect of the pestilence was the death of 70,000 men. <\/p>\n 1Ch 21:15. Chronologically speaking, this verse should come after the next two. God sent the destroying angel to attack Jerusalem and the work was begun. But the plea of David (soon to be considered) caused the mercy of God to “repent,” which means he was to change his decree against Jerusalem. <\/p>\n 1Ch 21:16. The sight of such a misfortune upon his capital city caused David to feel sorrowful. He and his “elders” or leading men put sackcloth over their bodies and got down to the ground, having their faces downward. That was a practice of those times when one wished to express great anxiety and penitence. <\/p>\n 1Ch 21:17. The fine character of David was manifested on so many occasions. Many persons in royal position feel so important that consideration for others is absent from their minds. The thing that grieved David was the fact that others were having to suffer for his misdeeds. These sheep was said to indicate his sense of responsibility. As king over the people, he regarded himself as one who should have protected them as a shepherd would his sheep. Instead of doing that, he had brought harm to his flock by his own acts. In such a frame of mind he begged the Lord to lift the affliction from the innocent and place it on the guilty. <\/p>\n Gad: 1Ch 29:29, 1Sa 9:9, 2Sa 24:11 <\/p>\n Reciprocal: 1Sa 22:4 – in the hold 1Ch 25:5 – the king’s seer 2Ch 29:25 – Gad<\/p>\n And the LORD spoke unto Gad, David’s seer, saying, 9. And the Lord spake ] The historian now retraces his steps to describe the circumstances which heralded the approach of the plague. 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