1Sa 26:19, 2Sa 24:1, 1Ki 11:11, 14, 23, 2Ch 33:11, Ezr 1:1, 5, Isa 10:5-6 | TSK | STEP | let my lord. stirred. accept. Heb. smell. cursed. they have driven. abiding. Heb. cleaving. the inheritance.

1 Samuel 26:19

let my lord.

25:24; Ge 44:18

stirred.

16:14-23; 18:10; 2Sa 16:11; 24:1; 1Ki 22:22; 1Ch 21:1

accept. Heb. smell.

Ge 8:21; Le 26:31; Ps 119:1-8

cursed.

Pr 6:16-19; 30:10; Ga 1:8,9; 5:12; 2Ti 4:14

they have driven.

De 4:27,28; Jos 22:25-27; Ps 42:1,2; 120:5; Isa 60:5; Ro 14:15

abiding. Heb. cleaving. the inheritance.

2Sa 14:16; 20:19

2 Samuel 24:1

1 David, tempted by Satan, forces Joab to number the people.

5 The captains, in nine months and twenty days, bring the muster of thirteen hundred thousand fighting men.

10 David repents, and having three plagues propounded by God, chooses the three days' pestilence.

15 After the death of three score and ten thousand, David by prayer prevents the destruction of Jerusalem.

18 David, by God's direction, purchases Araunah's threshing floor; where having sacrificed, the plague stays.

A.M. 2987. B.C. 1017. An. Ex. Is. 474. again.

21:1-14

he.This verse, when read without reference to any other part of the word of God, is very difficult to understand, and has been used by those who desire to undermine the justice of God, to shew that he sought occasion to punish--that he incited David to sin; and when he had so incited him, gave to him the dreadful alternative of choosing one of three scourges by which his people were to be cut off. On the face of the passage these thoughts naturally arise, because "the Lord" is the antecedent to the pronoun "he,"--He moved David. But to those who "search the Scriptures," this exceedingly difficult passage receives a wonderful elucidation, By referring to 1 Ch 21:1, the reader will there find that Satan was the mover, and that the Lord most righteously punished David for the display of pride he had manifested. Oh! that Christians, who sometimes have their minds harassed with doubts, would remember the promise, that what they know not now they shall know hereafter; and if no other instance of elucidation than this passage occurred to them to remove their doubts, let this be a means of stirring them up to dig deeper than ever into the inexhaustible mines of the Inspired Word.

Jas 1:13,14

moved.

12:11; 16:10; Ge 45:5; 50:20; Ex 7:3; 1Sa 26:19; 1Ki 22:20-23

Eze 14:9; 20:25; Ac 4:28; 2Th 2:11

Go, number.

1Ch 27:23,24

1 Kings 11:11

is done of thee. Heb. is with thee. thou hast not.

Isa 29:13,14

I will surely.

31; 12:15,16,20; Nu 14:23,35; 1Sa 2:30-32; 13:13,14; 15:26-28

2Sa 12:9-12

1 Kings 11:14

the Lord.

12:15; 1Sa 26:19; 2Sa 24:1; 1Ch 5:26; Isa 10:5,26; 13:17

an adversary.

2Sa 7:14; Ps 89:30-34

1 Kings 11:23

God.

14; 2Sa 16:11; Ezr 1:1; Isa 13:17; 37:26; 45:5; Eze 38:16

Hadadezer.

2Sa 8:3; 10:8,15-18; 1Ch 18:3-9; 19:6,16-19

Hadarezer.

Ps 60:1; *title

2 Chronicles 33:11

A.M. 3327. B.C. 677. the Lord.

De 28:36; Job 36:8

the captains.

Isa 10:8; 36:9

of the king. Heb. which were the king's.

Ne 9:32,37; Isa 5:26-30; 7:18-20

among the thorns.The word {bachochim} may possibly her signify with fetters or chains, as the kindred word {chachim} denotes, Eze 19:4, 9. The Syriac and Arabic have alive, probably reading {bechayim}.

1Sa 13:6; La 3:7

bound him.

2Ki 23:33; 25:6; Job 36:8-11; Ps 107:10-14

fetters. or, chains.

Ezra 1:1

1 The proclamation of Cyrus for the building of the temple.

5 The people provide for their return.

7 Cyrus restores the vessels of the temple to Sheshbazzar.

Now in the.

2Ch 36:22,23

Cyrus.Cyrus is said to have been the son of Cambyses, king of Persia, and Mandane, daughter of Astyages, king of Media: he was born about 600 years before Christ, and died at the age of 70, after a reign of 30 years. He was mentioned by name, and his conquests foretold, by the prophet Isaiah, about a century before his birth. Josephus states the partiality he evinced towards the Jews, arose from the circumstance of these prophecies being shown him, probably by Daniel.

by the mouth.

Jer 25:12-14; 29:10; 33:7-13

the Lord.

5:13-15; 6:22; 7:27; Ps 106:46; Pr 21:1; Da 2:1

made a proclamation. Heb. caused a voice to pass.

Mt 3:1-3; Joh 1:23