1Ch 21:1 | Clarke | e4.org | CHAPTER XXI David is tempted by Satan to take the numbers of the people of Israel and Judah , 1, 2. Joab remonstrates, but the king is determined, and Joab pleads in vain , 3, 4. He returns, and delivers in the number to the king, but reckons not Levi and Benjamin , 5. The Lord is displeased, and sends Gad to offer David his choice of three great national calamities; famine, war, or pestilence , 6-12. David submits himself to God, and a pestilence is sent, which destroys seventy thousand, 13, 14. At David's intercession the destroying angel is restrained at the threshing-floor of Ornan , 15-17. He buys the piece of ground, builds an altar to the Lord and offers sacrifices, and the plague is stayed , 18-30. NOTES ON CHAP. XXI Verse 1. And Satan stood up against Israel ] , &c.

‏ 1 Chronicles 21:1

CHAPTER XXI

David is tempted by Satan to take the numbers of the people of Israel and Judah, 1, 2.

Joab remonstrates, but the king is determined, and Joab pleads in vain, 3, 4.

He returns, and delivers in the number to the king, but reckons not Levi and Benjamin, 5.

The Lord is displeased, and sends Gad to offer David his choice of three great national calamities; famine, war, or pestilence,

6-12.

David submits himself to God, and a pestilence is sent, which destroys seventy thousand, 13, 14.

At David's intercession the destroying angel is restrained at the threshing-floor of Ornan, 15-17.

He buys the piece of ground, builds an altar to the Lord and offers sacrifices, and the plague is stayed, 18-30.

NOTES ON CHAP. XXI

Verse 1. And Satan stood up against Israel] See Clarke on 2Sa 24:1, &c.