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13 And David said to Gad, “I am in great distress. Please let me fall into the hand of the Lord, for His amercies are very great; but do not let me fall into the hand of man.”  
14 So the Lord sent a aplague upon Israel, and seventy thousand men of Israel fell.  
15 And God sent1 an aangel to Jerusalem to destroy it. As2 he was destroying, the Lord looked and brelented of the disaster, and said to the angel who was destroying, “It is enough; now restrain3 your hand.” And the angel of the Lord stood by the cthreshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.  
16 Then David lifted his eyes and asaw the angel of the Lord standing between earth and heaven, having in his hand a drawn sword stretched out over Jerusalem. So David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell on their faces.  
17 And David said to God, “Was it not I who commanded the people to be numbered? I am the one who has sinned and done evil indeed; but these asheep, what have they done? Let Your hand, I pray, O Lord my God, be against me and my father’s house, but not against Your people that they should be plagued.”  
18 Therefore, the aangel of the Lord commanded Gad to say to David that David should go and erect an altar to the Lord on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.  
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Adam Clarke
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1 Chronicles 21:15

And God sent an angel - Thus the Targum: "And the Word of the Lord sent the angel of death against Jerusalem to destroy it; and he beheld the ashes of the binding of Isaac at the foot of the altar, and he remembered his covenant with Abraham, which he made in the Mount of Worship; and the house of the upper sanctuary, where are the souls of the righteous, and the image of Jacob fixed on the throne of glory; and he turned in his Word from the evil which he designed to do unto them; and he said to the destroying angel, Cease; take Abishai their chief from among them, and cease from smiting the rest of the people. And the angel which was sent from the presence of the Lord stood at the threshing-floor of Araunah the Jebusite.




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