1 Chronicles 21:16
And David lifted up his eyes, and saw the angel of the LORD stand between the earth and the heaven, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders of Israel, who were clothed in sackcloth, fell upon their faces.
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Barnes' Notes
Here a picture of awful grandeur takes the place of the bare statement of the earlier historian 2Sa 24:17. And here, as elsewhere, the author probably extracts from the ancient documents such…
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
lift up The old form of the past changed in modern editions to lifted up; cp. Gen 22:4, etc.
saw the angel The full description of the vision is peculiar to Chron.; cp. 2Sa 24:17.
and the eldersof…
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