1 Chronicles 21:15

1 Chronicles 21:15

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.

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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stood by the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite—Ornan was probably his Hebrew or Jewish, Araunah his Jebusite or Canaanitish, name. Whether he was the old king of Jebus, as that title is given to him (II Samuel 24:23), or not, he had been converted to the worship of the true God, and was possessed both of property and influence.

1 Chronicles 21:14-15

So the Lord . . . sent an angel unto Jerusalem to destroy it—The infliction only of the pestilence is here noticed, without any account of its duration or its ravages, while a minute description is given of the visible appearance and menacing attitude of the destroying angel.

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