1-4 David, tempted by Satan, forces Joab to number the people 5-8 The number of the people being brought, David repents of it 9-13 David having three plagues propounded by God, chooses the pestilence 14-17 After the death of seventy thousand, David by repentance prevents the destruction of Jerusalem 18-27 David, by Gad's direction, purchases Ornan's threshing floor; where having built an altar, God gives a sign of his favour by fire, and stays the plague. 28-30 David sacrifices there, being restrained from Gibeon by fear of the angel

A.M. 2987 B.C. 1017 An. Ex. Is. 474
Satan 2Sa 24:1 1Ki 22:20-22 Job 1:6-12 2:1,4-6 Zec 3:1 Mt 4:3 Lu 22:31 Joh 13:2 Ac 5:3 Jas 1:13 Re 12:10

provoked David
lu 11:53 he 10:24

2 And David said to Joab and to the rulers of the people, Go, number Israel from Beersheba even to Dan; and bring the number of them to me, that I may know it.

Joab 2Sa 24:2-4

Beer-sheba Jud 20:1 1Sa 3:20 2Sa 3:10 17:11 24:15 1Ki 4:25 2Ch 30:5

bring 1Ch 17:23,24

that I may De 8:13-17 2Ch 32:25,26 Pr 29:23 2Co 12:7

3 And Joab answered, The LORD make his people an hundred times so many more as they be: but, my lord the king, are they not all my lord's servants? why then doth my lord require this thing? why will he be a cause of trespass to Israel?

The Lord 1Ch 19:13 Ps 115:14 Pr 14:28 Isa 26:15 48:19

why will Ge 20:9 Ex 32:21 Nu 32:9,10 1Sa 2:24 1Ki 14:16

4 Nevertheless the king's word prevailed against Joab. Wherefore Joab departed, and went throughout all Israel, and came to Jerusalem.

the king's Ec 8:4

Wherefore Ex 1:17 Da 3:18 Ac 5:29

and went 2Sa 24:3-8

5 And Joab gave the sum of the number of the people unto David. And all they of Israel were a thousand thousand and an hundred thousand men that drew sword: and Judah was four hundred threescore and ten thousand men that drew sword.

a thousand The Syriac has 800,000 as in the parallel passage of Samuel 1Ch 27:23 2Sa 24:9

6 But Levi and Benjamin counted he not among them: for the king's word was abominable to Joab.

Levi Nu 1:47-49

Joab 2Sa 3:27 11:15-21 20:9,10

7 And God was displeased with this thing; therefore he smote Israel.

And God was displeased with this thing [heb] And it was evil in the eyes of God concerning this thing 2Sa 11:27 1Ki 15:5

he smote 1Ch 21:14 Jos 7:1,5,13 22:16-26 2Sa 21:1,14 24:1

8 And David said unto God, I have sinned greatly, because I have done this thing: but now, I beseech thee, do away the iniquity of thy servant; for I have done very foolishly.

I have sinned 2Sa 12:13 24:10 Ps 25:11 32:5 Jer 3:13 Lu 15:18,19 1Jo 1:9

do away Ps 51:1-3 Ho 14:2 Joh 1:29

I have done Ge 34:7 1Sa 13:13 26:21 2Sa 13:13 2Ch 10:9

9 And the LORD spake unto Gad, David's seer, saying,

Gad 1Ch 29:29 1Sa 9:9 2Sa 24:11

10 Go and tell David, saying, Thus saith the LORD, I offer thee three things: choose thee one of them, that I may do it unto thee.

offer thee [heb] stretch out
choose Jos 24:15 Pr 1:29-31

that I may Nu 20:12 2Sa 12:10-12 1Ki 13:21,22 Pr 3:12 Re 3:19

11 So Gad came to David, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Choose thee

choose thee [heb] Take to thee

12 Either three years' famine; or three months to be destroyed before thy foes, while that the sword of thine enemies overtaketh thee; or else three days the sword of the LORD, even the pestilence, in the land, and the angel of the LORD destroying throughout all the coasts of Israel. Now therefore advise thyself what word I shall bring again to him that sent me.

three year's famine In 2Sa 24:13, it is {seven years}; but the Septuagint has there () {three years}, as here; which is, no doubt, the true reading; the letter () {zayin} being mistaken for () {gimmel}, Three. Le 26:26-29 2Sa 21:1 24:13 1Ki 17:1 2Ki 8:1 La 4:9 Lu 4:25

to be destroyed Le 26:17,36,37 De 28:15,25,51,52 Jer 42:16

the sword 1Ch 21:16 Isa 66:16 Jer 12:12 47:6

even the pestilence Le 26:10,25 De 28:22,27,35 Ps 91:6 Eze 14:19-21

the angel 1Ch 21:15,16 Ex 12:23 2Ki 19:35

mat 13:49,50 ac 12:23 re 7:1-3
Now therefore 2Sa 24:13,14

13 And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let me fall now into the hand of the LORD; for very great are his mercies: but let me not fall into the hand of man.

I am in 2Ki 6:15 7:4 Es 4:11,16 Joh 12:27 Php 1:23

let me fall David here acted nobly: had he chosen war, his personal safety was in no danger, as there was an ordinance preventing him from going to battle; and in famine, his wealth would have secured his and his family's support; but all were equally exposed to the pestilence. Heb 10:31

great. or, many Ex 34:6,7 Ps 5:7 51:1,2 69:13,16 86:5,15 103:8 106:7 130:7 Isa 55:7 63:7,15 La 3:32 Jon 3:9 4:2 Mic 7:18 Hab 3:2

but let me 2Ch 28:9 Pr 12:10 Isa 46:7 47:6

14 So the LORD sent pestilence upon Israel: and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men.

the Lord Nu 16:46-49 2Sa 24:15

seventy Ex 12:20 Nu 25:9 1Sa 6:19 2Ki 19:35

15 And God sent an angel unto Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he was destroying, the LORD beheld, and he repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed, It is enough, stay now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD stood by the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.

unto Jerusalem 2Sa 24:16 Jer 7:12 26:9,18 Mt 23:37,38

repented him Ge 6:6 Ex 32:14 Jud 2:18 10:16 Ps 78:38 Jer 18:7-10 Jon 4:2

It is enough Ex 9:28 1Ki 19:4 Ps 90:13 Mr 14:41

Ornan 2Sa 24:18

Araunah 2Ch 3:1

16 And David lifted up his eyes, and saw the angel of the LORD stand between the earth and the heaven, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders of Israel, who were clothed in sackcloth, fell upon their faces.

saw the angel Ge 3:24 Ex 14:19,20 Nu 22:31 Jos 5:13,14 2Ki 6:17

clothed 1Ki 21:27 2Ki 19:1 Ps 35:13,14 Jon 3:6-8

fell upon Nu 14:5 16:22

17 And David said unto God, Is it not I that commanded the people to be numbered? even I it is that have sinned and done evil indeed; but as for these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, O LORD my God, be on me, and on my father's house; but not on thy people, that they should be plagued.

It is not I 1Ch 21:8 2Sa 24:17 Ps 51:4 Eze 16:63

these sheep 1Ki 22:17 Ps 44:11

what have 2Sa 24:1

let thine Ge 44:33 Ex 32:32,33 Joh 10:11,12 Ro 9:3 1Jo 3:16

on my father's Ex 20:5 2Sa 12:10 Ps 51:14 Isa 39:7,8

that they should Jos 22:18

18 Then the angel of the LORD commanded Gad to say to David, that David should go up, and set up an altar unto the LORD in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.

the angel 1Ch 21:11 Ac 8:26

that David 1Ch 21:15 2Sa 24:18 2Ch 3:1

19 And David went up at the saying of Gad, which he spake in the name of the LORD.

went up 2Ki 5:10-14 Joh 2:5 Ac 9:6

20 And Ornan turned back, and saw the angel; and his four sons with him hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat.

And Ornan When Ornan turned back and saw the angel, then he, and his four sons with him, hid themselves Jud 6:11

21 And as David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David, and went out of the threshingfloor, and bowed himself to David with his face to the ground.

bowed himself 1Sa 25:23 2Sa 24:18-20

22 Then David said to Ornan, Grant me the place of this threshingfloor, that I may build an altar therein unto the LORD: thou shalt grant it me for the full price: that the plague may be stayed from the people.

Grant [heb[ Give 1Ki 21:2

thou shalt grant 2Sa 24:21

that the plague Nu 16:48 25:8

23 And Ornan said unto David, Take it to thee, and let my lord the king do that which is good in his eyes: lo, I give thee the oxen also for burnt offerings, and the threshing instruments for wood, and the wheat for the meat offering; I give it all.

Take it Ge 23:4-6 2Sa 24:22,23 Jer 32:8

the oxen 1Sa 6:14 1Ki 19:21 Isa 28:27,28

24 And king David said to Ornan, Nay; but I will verily buy it for the full price: for I will not take that which is thine for the LORD, nor offer burnt offerings without cost.

Nay Ge 14:23 23:13 De 16:16,17 Mal 1:12-14 Ro 12:17

for I will not It is a maxim form heaven `Honour the Lord with thy substance.' He who has a religion that costs him nothing, had a religion that is worth nothing; nor will any man esteem the ordinances of God, if those ordinances cost him nothing. Had Araunah;s noble offer been accepted, it would have been Araunah's sacrifice, not David's; nor would it have answered the end of turning away the displeasure of the Most High. It was David that sinned, not Araunah; therefore David must offer sacrifice.

25 So David gave to Ornan for the place six hundred shekels of gold by weight.

2Sa 24:24,25

26 And David built there an altar unto the LORD, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and called upon the LORD; and he answered him from heaven by fire upon the altar of burnt offering.

built there Ex 20:24,25 24:4,5

and called 1Sa 7:8,9 Ps 51:15 99:9 Pr 15:8 Isa 65:24 Jer 33:3

by fire Le 9:24 Jud 6:21 13:20 1Ki 18:24,38 2Ch 3:1 7:1

27 And the LORD commanded the angel; and he put up his sword again into the sheath thereof.

the Lord 1Ch 21:15,16 2Sa 24:16 Ps 103:20 Heb 1:14

he put 1Ch 21:12,20 Jer 47:6 Eze 21:30 Mt 26:52 Joh 18:11

28 At that time when David saw that the LORD had answered him in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite, then he sacrificed there.

29 For the tabernacle of the LORD, which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of the burnt offering, were at that season in the high place at Gibeon.

the tabernacle Ex 40:1-38

Gibeon 1Ch 16:39 1Ki 3:4 2Ch 1:3,13

30 But David could not go before it to enquire of God: for he was afraid because of the sword of the angel of the LORD.

he was afraid 1Ch 21:16 13:12 De 10:12 2Sa 6:9 Job 13:21 21:6 23:15 Ps 90:11 119:120 Jer 5:22 10:7 Heb 12:28,29 Re 1:17 15:4