Num 16:22, Jos 7:1, 11, 21, 22:20, 2Sa 24:1, 1Ch 21:1, 14 | TSK | STEP

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

‏ Joshua 22:20

7:1,5,18,24; 1Co 10:6; 2Pe 2:6; Jude 1:5,6

‏ 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 Chronicles 21:1

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

5 The number of the people being brought, David repents of it.

9 David having three plagues propounded by God, chooses the pestilence.

14 After the death of seventy thousand, David by repentance prevents the destruction of Jerusalem.

18 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 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; Heb 10:24

‏ 1 Chronicles 21:14

the Lord.

Nu 16:46-49; 2Sa 24:15

seventy.

Ex 12:30; Nu 25:9; 1Sa 6:19; 2Ki 19:35