1 Chronicles 21:15
And God sent an angel unto Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he was destroying, the LORD beheld, and he repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed, It is enough, stay now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD stood by the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.
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Methodist theologian, 1762–1832
Adam Clarke
And God sent an angel - Thus the Targum: "And the Word of the Lord sent the angel of death against Jerusalem to destroy it; and he beheld the ashes of the binding of Isaac at the foot of the altar,…
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
unto Jerusalem The plague arrived in Jerusalem after making ravages elsewhere.
as he was destroying R.V. as he was about to destroy, agreeing with 2 Sam., when the angel stretched forth his hand upon…
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