Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
He answered him from heaven by fire - This fact is not mentioned by the author of Samuel, since his object is to give an account of the sin of David, its punishment, and the circumstances by which that punishment was brought to a close, not to connect those circumstances with anything further in the history. With the writer of Chronicles the case is different. He would probably have omitted the whole narrative, as he did the sin of David in the matter of Uriah, but for its connection with the fixing of the temple site 1 Chr. 22. It was no doubt mainly the fact that God answered him by fire from heaven on this altar, which determined David, and Solomon after him, to build the temple on the spot so consecrated.
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing 1 Chronicles 21:26:
Leviticus 9:24
Leviticus 26:3-45
1 Kings 3:2
2 Chronicles 3:1
Psalms 20:6
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