1 Chronicles 21:13
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.
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Methodist theologian, 1762–1832
Adam Clarke
David said - I am in a great strait - The Targum reasons thus:
"And David said to Gad, If I choose famine, the Israelites may say, The granaries of David are full of corn; neither doth he care should…
David is here under the rod for numbering the people, that rod of correction which drives out the foolishness that is bound up in the heart, the foolishness of pride. Let us briefly observe,
I. How he…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
into the hand of the Lord David deprecates war, and prefers famine or pestilence.
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