Gen 18:23-25, 32, Jos 7, 2Sa 24:1, 17, Rom 5:18, 1Cor 13:7 | TSK | STEP

put dust.Rending the clothes, beating the breast, tearing the hair, throwing dust upon the head, and falling prostrate, were usual signs of deep affliction and distress among the ancient Israelites. In illustration of this custom, see 1 Sa 4:12, when the messenger brought tidings to Eli of the discomfiture of the armies of Israel by the Philistines; again, in the case of Tamar, 2 Sa 13:19, and in Ne 9:1, when a whole nation, "assembled with fasting, and with sackcloth, and earth upon them." See also the case of Mordecai, Es 4:1, and Job 2:12, where his friends abased themselves to comfort him; refer also to Eze 27:30. Jon 3:6. Mic 1:10. In each of these instances it is worthy of remark, that putting dust on the head generally follows rending of the clothes, and was the usual mode of evincing poignant sorrow.

wherefore.

Ex 5:22,23; Nu 14:3; 2Ki 3:10; Ps 116:11; Jer 12:1,2; Heb 12:5

to deliver.

Ex 14:11,12; 17:3; Nu 20:4,5; Mt 17:17,20; Mr 8:17,18

would to.

Ex 16:3

and dwelt.

1:2-4

what shall.

Ezr 9:10; Hab 2:1; Ro 3:5,6

back. Heb. necks.

shall hear.

Ex 32:12; Nu 14:13

environ.

Ps 83:4; 124:2,3

what wilt thou.

De 32:26,27; Ps 106:6-8; Eze 20:9; 36:22,23; Joe 2:17; Joh 12:28

wherefore.

Ex 14:15; 1Sa 15:22; 16:1; 1Ch 22:16

liest. Heb. fallest.

Israel.

1,20,21

transgressed.

23:16; De 17:2; Jud 2:20; 2Ki 18:12; Isa 24:5; 50:1,2; Jer 31:32

Ho 6:7

the accursed.

21; 6:17-19

stolen.

Mal 3:8,9; Mt 22:21

dissembled.

2Ki 5:25,26; Joh 12:5,6; Ac 5:1,2,9; Heb 4:13

among.

Le 5:15; Hab 2:6; Zec 5:4

the children.

22:18-20; Nu 14:45; Jud 2:4; Ps 5:4,5; Pr 28:1; Isa 59:2; Hab 1:13

they were.

6:18; De 7:26; Hag 2:13,14

neither.

Jer 6:8; 23:33; Ho 9:12

sanctify.

3:5; Ex 19:10-15; La 3:40,41; Joe 2:16,17; Zep 2:1,2

an accursed.

11; 2Ch 28:10; Mt 7:5

take away.

1Co 5:1-6,11-13

the tribe.

17,18; 1Sa 10:19-21; 14:38-42; Pr 16:33; Jon 1:7; Ac 1:24-26

he that is.

25,26; De 13:15,16; 1Sa 14:38,39

he hath.

wrought.

Ge 34:7; Jud 20:6; 1Sa 26:21; 2Sa 13:13

folly. or, wickedness.

rose up.

3:1; Ge 22:3; Ps 119:60; Ec 9:10

and brought.

Ge 38:30

Zarah.

Nu 26:20; 1Ch 2:4-7

was taken.

Nu 32:23; 1Sa 14:42; Pr 13:21; Jer 2:26; Ac 5:1-10

My son.

2Ti 2:25; Tit 2:2; Jas 1:20; 1Pe 3:8,9

give.

1Sa 6:5; Isa 13:12; Jer 13:16; Lu 17:18; Joh 9:24; Re 16:9

make.

Nu 5:6,7; 2Ch 30:22; 33:12,13; Ezr 10:10,11; Ps 32:5; 51:3

Pr 28:13; Jer 3:12,13; Da 9:4; Ro 10:10; 1Jo 1:8-10

tell me.

1Sa 14:43; Jon 1:8-10

Indeed.

Ge 42:21; Ex 10:16; Nu 22:34; 1Sa 15:24,30; Job 7:20; 33:27

Ps 38:18; Mt 27:4

I saw.

Ge 3:6; 6:2; 2Sa 11:2; Job 31:1; Ps 119:37; Pr 23:31; 28:22

Mt 5:28,29; 1Jo 2:15,16

Babylonish garment.{Addereth shinâr,} "a splendid or costly robe of Shinar," the plain in which Babylon stood. Bochart and Calmet have shewn at large, that Babylonish robes were very splendid, and in high reputation. Calmet says, they are generally allowed to have been of various colours, though some suppose they were woven thus; others, that they were embroidered with the needle; and others, that they were painted. Silius Italicus seems to think they were woven. Martial supposes them to have been embroidered with the needle; and Pliny and Apuleius speak of them as painted.

Ge 10:10; *marg:

wedge. Heb. tongue. I coveted.

Ex 20:17; De 7:25; 1Ki 21:1,2; 2Ki 5:20-27; Hab 2:9; Lu 12:15

Ro 7:7,8; Eph 5:3; Col 3:5; 1Ti 6:9,10; Heb 13:5; 2Pe 2:15

took them.

Pr 4:23; Mic 2:1,2; Jas 1:15

they are hid.

2Sa 11:6-17; 2Ki 5:24,25; Isa 28:15; 29:15; Lu 12:2

laid them out. Heb. poured.

took Achan.

1; Job 20:15; Pr 15:27; Ec 5:13; Eze 22:13,14; 1Ti 6:9,10

his sons.

6:18,21; Ge 18:25; Ex 20:5; Nu 16:27-31; Job 20:23-28

the valley.

26; 15:7; Isa 65:10; Ho 2:15

Why hast.

11-13; 6:18; Ge 34:30; 1Ki 18:17,18; 1Ch 2:7; Hab 2:6-9; Ga 5:12

2Th 1:6; Heb 12:15

all Israel.

Le 20:2; 24:14; De 13:10; 17:5; 21:21; 22:21-24

burned.

15; Ge 38:24; Le 20:14; 21:9

raised.

8:29; 10:27; 2Sa 18:17; La 3:53

So the Lord.

De 13:17; 2Sa 21:14; Isa 40:2; Joe 2:13,18; Joh 3:9,10; Zec 6:8

The valley.

24; Isa 65:10; Ho 2:15

Achor. that is, Trouble.

‏ 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