30<\/strong>. he was afraid<\/em> ] Or, he was terrified<\/strong>. The Heb. word is unusual.<\/p>\n David, knowing that by sacrifice on this altar he had caused the angel to stay his hand, was afraid to transfer his offerings elsewhere, lest the Angel should resume his task and pestilence again break out.<\/P><\/p>\n Verse 30<\/span>. Because of the sword of the angel<\/B><\/I>] This is given as a reason why David built an altar in the threshing-floor of Ornan: he was afraid to go to Gibeon, because of the sword of the<\/I> destroying angel<\/I>, or he was afraid of delaying<\/I> the offerings so long as his going thither would require, lest the destroying angel should in the mean while<\/I> exterminate the people; therefore he hastily built an altar in that place, and on it made the requisite offerings, and by the fire from heaven God showed that he had accepted his act and his devotion. Such interventions as these must necessarily maintain in the minds of the people a full persuasion of the truth and Divine origin of their religion.<\/P> <\/P> For a more circumstantial account of these transactions, see the notes on 2Sa 24:1<\/span>, Ac., in which several difficulties of the text are removed.<\/P> <\/p>\n David could not, <\/B>i.e. durst not. Before it<\/I>, i.e. before the tabernacle, where the altar stood. <\/P> To inquire of God, <\/B>Heb. to seek God<\/I>, i.e. humbly to beg his favour by prayer and sacrifice. <\/P> Because of the sword of the angel of the Lord, <\/B>i.e. when he saw the angel stand with his drawn sword over Jerusalem, as is related above, 1Ch 21:15<\/span>,16<\/span>, he durst not go away thence to Gibeon, lest the angel in the mean time should destroy Jerusalem; for the prevention whereof he thought it most proper to continue to worship God in that place, which he had consecrated by his special presence and gracious acceptance. <\/P> <\/p>\n But David could not go before it to inquire of God<\/strong>,…. Which yet was the proper place to seek the Lord in: the reason follows,<\/p>\n for he was afraid, because of the sword of the angel of the Lord<\/strong>; which had so terrified him, that he was so weak that he could not go; and he feared that, should he attempt to go, while he was going thither, at such a distance, the angel would make a terrible slaughter in Jerusalem, and therefore he durst not go and leave it; and besides, as the Lord had commanded him to build an altar there, he might fear it would displease him, should he depart from it; and the rather, as hereby he pointed out to him the place where the temple should be built, and sacrifices offered, as appears from what he says in the beginning of the next chapter.<\/p>\n (30) But <\/strong>(and) David could not go before it<\/strong>i.e.,<\/em> the Tabernacle at Gibeon and the altar of burnt offering (1Ch. 16:4<\/span>; 1Ch. 16:37<\/span>; 1Ch. 16:39<\/span>).<\/p>\n To enquire of God.<\/strong>To seek Him,<\/em> that is, to seek His favour by sacrifice and prayer. (But comp. 1Ch. 13:3<\/span>; 1Ch. 15:13<\/span>.)<\/p>\n For he was afraid because of the sword.<\/strong>David could not go to Gibeon, says Keil, because of the sword of the angel of Jehovah: i.e.,<\/em> on account of the pestilence which raged at Gibeon. Others have thought that the awful vision of the angel had stricken him with some bodily weakness. A more natural explanation is that the menacing aspect of the apparition overawed the king, so that he durst not follow the usual course in the present instance. It made, as we should say, an indelible impression upon his mind as to the sanctity of the place where it appeared. (Comp. Gen. 28:17<\/span>; Exo. 3:5<\/span>; Jos. 5:15<\/span>; Jdg. 6:21<\/span>; Jdg. 6:26<\/span>.)<\/p>\n 30<\/strong>. <\/strong> David could not go before it to inquire of God: for he was afraid because of the sword of the angel <\/strong> It was a moral and spiritual, not a physical cause, that hindered David from going to Gibeon. Gibeon had probably not been spared by the pestilence, and the fear inspired by the sight of the angel, together with the command to build an altar and sacrifice on the spot where the angel appeared, convinced the king that thenceforth he must offer his sacrifices on the threshingfloor of Ornan. Hence he could not go elsewhere to sacrifice without violating his convictions of duty and obedience. He may also have feared that any disregard of the command to sacrifice on this new spot would cause the sword of the destroying angel to appear again. With this verse the first verse of the next chapter should be connected. Convinced by a Divine revelation that this spot was chosen by God as a place for sacrifice, he proclaimed, “This is the house of the Lord God, and this is the altar of the burnt offering for Israel.” Here at length he found the spot on which the temple should be built.<\/p>\n 1Ch 21:30<\/span><\/em><\/strong>. <\/strong>But David could not go before it, <\/em><\/strong>&c.<\/strong> 1:e. David could not delay so long as to go to Gibeon, because he was convinced that God had consecrated the present spot, and that it was necessary to offer sacrifice there immediately. <\/p>\n REFLECTIONS.<\/strong>1st, Observe, <\/p>\n 1. The greatest saints of God upon earth are but men, against whom Satan despairs not of prevailing; and they have need to take heed lest they fall, as David did here. 3rdly, David is relieved from his terrible distress: Gad, the messenger of his plague, brings him notice of reconciliation, and directs him what to do, in which David makes no delay. REFLECTIONS<\/p>\n<\/p>\n READERS let us pause over this chapter to remark what a vast difference we behold in David, from what the former chapter represents him! Is this David, who so enjoyed the gracious manifestations of the Lord, and found his whole heart going forth in praise, and prayer, and faith, and love! And now through distrust numbering his men, as if he had no longer confidence in the Lord, and was looking to an arm of flesh! But, Reader! what is man, even the best of men, if but for a moment left to himself?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Precious Jesus! cause me to learn, from this renewed instance before my eyes, what a poor creature is man in his highest attainments, and how needful thy blood and righteousness are, through the whole and every part of our pilgrimage, to cleanse the conscience and to justify the soul. Reader, learn from it your daily need of Jesus! See whether you are thus corning to Christ daily, hourly, to gather pardon, grace, and strength for every emergency. Depend upon it, if you have lost a sense of that powerful impression, which you felt when you first came to Jesus a poor, needy, helpless sinner, it is not because you have less need of him, but because you have relaxed in your attention to your own wants, and the Redeemer’s fulness to supply. Oh, Sir! see that you make him what he really is, and must be, to his people, when rightly used and improved, as well the Finisher, as the Author of our faith; the End as well as the Beginning. Many set out upon a full conviction of their need of Jesus, but after awhile are turning in to somewhat of their own by way of confidence. Pray God, that you and I may not so learn Christ. But may the Lord give us grace to make him the whole of our hopes, for there is salvation in no other. As you have received Christ Jesus, the Lord, so walk you in him. Let every grace be acted upon him, and everything will then tend to show our increasing need of him, until we arrive to this blessed issue, to know him, to be made of God to us wisdom and righteousness, sanctification and redemption, that he that glorieth may glory in the Lord.<\/p>\n afraid: i.e. afraid [to delay] because, &c. Otherwise Gibeon was only about eight miles away. <\/p>\n he was afraid: 1Ch 21:16, 1Ch 13:12, Deu 10:12, 2Sa 6:9, Job 13:21, Job 21:6, Job 23:15, Psa 90:11, Psa 119:120, Jer 5:22, Jer 10:7, Heb 12:28, Heb 12:29, Rev 1:17, Rev 15:4 <\/p>\n Reciprocal: Jos 5:13 – his sword<\/p>\n 1Ch 21:30. David could not go before it Did not dare to go before the tabernacle, where the altar stood. To inquire of God Hebrew, , lidrosh, to seek God, or humbly to entreat his favour by prayer and sacrifice. For he was afraid because of the sword of the angel of the Lord That is, when he saw the angel stand with his drawn sword over Jerusalem, he durst not go away to Gibeon, lest the angel in the mean time should destroy Jerusalem: for the prevention whereof he thought it proper to worship God in that place, which he had consecrated by his special presence and acceptance. <\/p>\n 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. 30. he was afraid ] Or, he was terrified. The Heb. word is unusual. Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges David, knowing that by sacrifice on this altar … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 1 Chronicles 21:30”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
2. Pride of heart was the corruption on which the devil wrought in David, and deep it lies in the bosom of man. If once he can strike a spark on this tinder, it easily kindles. O that we may all be delivered from it!
2nd, Observe,
1. God’s love to the sinner’s soul will not spare the rod of chastisement.
2. Gad’s reproof brought David to his knees; but this could not save him from the threatened judgment. We shall suffer in the flesh for our sins, though our spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.
3. Our folly usually brings us into our greatest straits, and we have nobody but ourselves to blame.
4. If God’s mercy was not infinite, verily we should be utterly consumed.
5. The only resource which we have left is that God <\/em>whom we have offended; when, humbled in the dust, we fly to him, he will lay the uplifted thunderbolt aside. <\/p>\n
1. He purchases the threshing-floor of Ornan, or Araunah, where the angel appeared, to rear an altar for sacrifice.
2. He offers there the blood of atonement, and God testifies his acceptance by fire from heaven on the sacrifice. There is one sacrifice in which God is well pleased; if his blood be upon us, then the sword of judgment shall not hurt us.
3. David continued ever after to sacrifice on this altar. At first, he was afraid to stir from Jerusalem (where he had seen the terrible angel) till the judgment was removed; but afterwards God’s gracious acceptance of his offering encouraged him to continue his attendance at the same place. Note; <\/em>Where we have found especial blessings to our souls, it is our wisdom there to continue our attendance upon God. <\/p>\nFuente: Commentary on the Holy Bible by Thomas Coke<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Hawker’s Poor Man’s Commentary (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Joseph Bensons Commentary on the Old and New Testaments<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"