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1
Chronicles Chapter Twenty-one
New King James Version (NKJV)
INTRODUCTION TO 1 CHRONICLES 21
Excepting
the three last verses, is contained in 2 Samuel 24:1 with
some few variations, which are there observed; see the notes there.
1 Chronicles
21:1 Now Satan stood
up against Israel, and moved David to number Israel.
YLT
1And there standeth up an
adversary against Israel, and persuadeth David to number Israel,
Verses 1-27
See
Chapter Introduction
1 Chronicles
21:2 2 So
David said to Joab and to the leaders of the people, “Go, number Israel from
Beersheba to Dan, and bring the number of them to me that I may know it.”
YLT
2And David saith unto Joab,
and unto the heads of the people, `Go, number Israel from Beer-Sheba even unto
Dan, and bring unto me, and I know their number.'
1 Chronicles 21:3 3 And Joab answered, “May
the Lord
make His people a hundred times more than they are. But, my lord the king, are
they not all my lord’s servants? Why then does my lord require this thing? Why
should he be a cause of guilt in Israel?”
YLT
3And Joab saith, `Jehovah
doth add to His people as they are a hundred times; are they not, my lord, O
king, all of them to my lord for servants? why doth my lord seek this? why is
he for a cause of guilt to Israel?'
1 Chronicles 21:4 4 Nevertheless the king’s
word prevailed against Joab. Therefore Joab departed and went throughout all
Israel and came to Jerusalem.
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4And the word of the king
[is] severe against Joab, and Joab goeth out, and goeth up and down in all
Israel, and cometh in to Jerusalem.
1 Chronicles 21:5 5 Then Joab gave the sum of
the number of the people to David. All Israel had one million one
hundred thousand men who drew the sword, and Judah had four hundred and
seventy thousand men who drew the sword.
YLT
5And Joab giveth the account
of the numbering of the people unto David, and all Israel is a thousand
thousand and a hundred thousand, each drawing sword, and Judah [is] four
hundred and seventy thousand, each drawing sword.
1 Chronicles 21:6 6 But he did not count Levi
and Benjamin among them, for the king’s word was abominable to Joab.
YLT
6And Levi and Benjamin he
hath not numbered in their midst, for the word of the king was abominable with
Joab.
1 Chronicles 21:7 7 And God was displeased
with this thing; therefore He struck Israel.
YLT
7And it is evil in the eyes
of God concerning this thing, and He smiteth Israel,
1 Chronicles 21:8 8 So David said to God, “I
have sinned greatly, because I have done this thing; but now, I pray, take away
the iniquity of Your servant, for I have done very foolishly.”
YLT
8and David saith unto God,
`I have sinned exceedingly, in that I have done this thing; and now, cause to
pass away, I pray Thee, the iniquity of Thy servant, for I have acted very
foolishly.'
1 Chronicles 21:9 9 Then the Lord spoke to Gad,
David’s seer, saying,
YLT
9And Jehovah speaketh unto
Gad, seer of David, saying:
1 Chronicles 21:10 10 “Go and tell David,
saying, ‘Thus says the Lord:
“I offer you three things; choose one of them for yourself, that I may
do it to you.”’”
YLT
10`Go, and thou hast spoken
unto David, saying, Thus said Jehovah, Three -- I am stretching out unto thee;
choose for thee one of these, and I do [it] to thee.'
1 Chronicles 21:11 11 So Gad came to David and
said to him, “Thus says the Lord: ‘Choose for yourself,
YLT
11And Gad cometh in unto
David, and saith to him, `Thus said Jehovah, Take for thee –
1 Chronicles 21:12 12 either three[a] years of
famine, or three months to be defeated by your foes with the sword of your
enemies overtaking you, or else for three days the sword of the Lord—the plague in
the land, with the angel[b] of the Lord destroying
throughout all the territory of Israel.’ Now consider what answer I should take
back to Him who sent me.”
YLT
12either for three years --
famine, or three months to be consumed from the face of thine adversaries, even
the sword of thine enemies to overtake, or three days the sword of Jehovah,
even pestilence in the land, and a messenger of Jehovah destroying in all the
border of Israel; and now, see; what word do I return to Him who is sending
me?'
1 Chronicles 21:13 13 And David said to Gad, “I
am in great distress. Please let me fall into the hand of the Lord, for His
mercies are very great; but do not let me fall into the hand of man.”
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13And David saith unto Gad,
`I am greatly distressed, let me fall, I pray thee, into the hand of Jehovah,
for very many [are] His mercies, and into the hand of man let me not fall.'
1 Chronicles 21:14 14 So the Lord sent a plague
upon Israel, and seventy thousand men of Israel fell.
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14And Jehovah giveth a
pestilence in Israel, and there fall of Israel seventy thousand men,
1 Chronicles 21:15 15 And God sent an angel to
Jerusalem to destroy it. As he[c] was
destroying, the Lord
looked and relented of the disaster, and said to the angel who was destroying,
“It is enough; now restrain your[d] hand.” And
the angel of the Lord
stood by the threshing floor of Ornan[e] the
Jebusite.
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15and God sendeth a messenger
to Jerusalem to destroy it, and as he is destroying Jehovah hath seen, and is
comforted concerning the evil, and saith to the messenger who [is] destroying,
`Enough, now, cease thy hand.' And the messenger of Jehovah is standing by the
threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite,
1 Chronicles 21:16 16 Then David lifted his eyes
and saw 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.
YLT
16and David lifteth up his
eyes, and seeth the messenger of Jehovah standing between the earth and the
heavens, and his sword drawn in his hand, stretched out over Jerusalem, and
David falleth, and the elders, covered with sackcloth, on their faces.
1 Chronicles 21:17 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 sheep, 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.”
YLT
17And David saith unto God,
`Did not I -- I say to number the people? Yea, I it [is] who have sinned, and
done great evil: and these, the flock, what did they? O Jehovah, my God, let, I
pray Thee, Thy hand be on me, and on the house of my father, and not on Thy
people -- to be plagued.'
1 Chronicles 21:18 18 Therefore, the angel 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.
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18And the messenger of
Jehovah spake unto Gad, saying for David, `Surely David doth go up to raise an
altar to Jehovah in the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite.'
1 Chronicles 21:19 19 So David went up at the
word of Gad, which he had spoken in the name of the Lord.
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19And David goeth up by the
word of Gad, that he spake in the name of Jehovah.
1 Chronicles 21:20 20 Now Ornan turned and saw
the angel; and his four sons who were with him hid themselves, but Ornan
continued threshing wheat.
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20And Ornan turneth back, and
seeth the messenger, and his four sons [are] with him, hiding themselves, and
Ornan is threshing wheat.
1 Chronicles 21:21 21 So David came to Ornan,
and Ornan looked and saw David. And he went out from the threshing floor, and
bowed before David with his face to the ground.
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21And David cometh in unto
Ornan, and Ornan looketh attentively, and seeth David, and goeth out from the
threshing-floor, and boweth himself to David -- face to the earth.
1 Chronicles 21:22 22 Then David said to Ornan,
“Grant me the place of this threshing floor, that I may build an altar
on it to the Lord.
You shall grant it to me at the full price, that the plague may be withdrawn
from the people.”
YLT
22And David saith unto Ornan,
`Give to me the place of the threshing-floor, and I build in it an altar to
Jehovah; for full silver give it to me, and the plague is restrained from the
people.'
1 Chronicles 21:23 23 But Ornan said to David,
“Take it to yourself, and let my lord the king do what is good in
his eyes. Look, I also give you the oxen for burnt offerings, the
threshing implements for wood, and the wheat for the grain offering; I give it
all.”
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23And Ornan saith unto David,
`Take to thee -- and my lord the king doth that which is good in his eyes: see,
I have given the oxen for burnt-offerings, and the threshing instruments for
wood, and the wheat for a present; the whole I have given.'
1 Chronicles 21:24 24 Then King David said to
Ornan, “No, but I will surely buy it for the full price, for I will not
take what is yours for the Lord, nor offer burnt
offerings with that which costs me nothing.”
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24And king David saith to
Ornan, `Nay, for I surely buy for full silver; for I do not lift up that which
is thine to Jehovah, so as to offer a burnt-offering without cost.'
1 Chronicles 21:25 25 So David gave Ornan six
hundred shekels of gold by weight for the place.
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25And David giveth to Ornan
for the place shekels of gold [in] weight six hundred;
1 Chronicles 21:26 26 And David built there an
altar to the Lord,
and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and called on the Lord; and He
answered him from heaven by fire on the altar of burnt offering.
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26and David buildeth there an
altar to Jehovah, and offereth burnt-offerings and peace-offerings, and calleth
unto Jehovah, and He answereth him with fire from the heavens on the altar of
the burnt-offering.
1 Chronicles 21:27 27 So the Lord commanded the
angel, and he returned his sword to its sheath.
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27And Jehovah saith to the
messenger, and he turneth back his sword unto its sheath.
1 Chronicles 21:28 28 At that time, when David
saw that the Lord
had answered him on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, he sacrificed
there.
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28At that time when David
seeth that Jehovah hath answered him in the threshing-floor of Ornan the
Jebusite, then he sacrificeth there;
At that time when David saw that the Lord had answered him in the
threshing floor Of Ornan the Jebusite,.... The same with
Araunah, 2 Samuel 24:16,
with some small variation of the letters, and are of the same signification;
both signifying the "ornus", as HillerusF13Onomastic.
Sacr. p. 529, 530. observes, the pine tree or ash; see Isaiah 44:14, in
whose threshingfloor David now was, and where he had been praying and
sacrificing; and God had accepted his prayer, as the Targum, and had answered
him, by causing fire to come down on the sacrifice and consume it, and by
ordering the angel to put up his sword in its sheath:
then he sacrificed there; again by the priests,
and continued to do so, for he had sacrificed there before, 1 Chronicles 21:26
and finding his sacrifices in that place were acceptable, he repeated them, and
did not go to Gibeon, as follows.
1 Chronicles 21:29 29 For the tabernacle of the Lord and the altar
of the burnt offering, which Moses had made in the wilderness, were at
that time at the high place in Gibeon.
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29and the tabernacle of
Jehovah that Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of the burnt-offering,
[are] at that time in a high place, in Gibeon;
For the tabernacle of the Lord, which Moses made,.... Or
ordered to be made by the command of God, and according to his direction:
and the altar of burnt offerings, were at that season in the high
place at Gibeon; which was four or five miles from Jerusalem, and too far for
David to go in that time of extremity; though he must have gone thither to
sacrifice, had not the Lord bid him build an altar on the threshingfloor; for
there was the altar of burnt offering, on which only, according to the law of
Moses, sacrifices were to be offered: this high place is, in the Targum, called
the sanctuary, it including, as Kimchi observes, the whole house, the
tabernacle, and the altar in it; which had been here, and at Nob, fifty seven
years, as the Jewish writers sayF14Maimon. & Bartenora in Misn.
Zebachim, c. 14. sect. 7. .
1 Chronicles 21:30 30 But David could not go
before it to inquire of God, for he was afraid of the sword of the angel of the
Lord.
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30and David is not able to go
before it to seek God, for he hath been afraid because of the sword of the
messenger of Jehovah.
But David could not go before it to inquire of God,.... Which yet
was the proper place to seek the Lord in: the reason follows:
for he was afraid, because of the sword of the angel of the Lord; which had so
terrified him, that he was so weak that he could not go; and he feared that,
should he attempt to go, while he was going thither, at such a distance, the
angel would make a terrible slaughter in Jerusalem, and therefore he durst not
go and leave it; and besides, as the Lord had commanded him to build an altar
there, he might fear it would displease him, should he depart from it; and the
rather, as hereby he pointed out to him the place where the temple should be
built, and sacrifices offered, as appears from what he says in the beginning of
the next chapter.
──《John Gill’s
Exposition of the Bible》
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