2 Samuel 24:16
And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough: stay now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD was by the threshingplace of Araunah the Jebusite.
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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771
Gill's Exposition
And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it,.... Which, as it was perhaps the last place where the people were numbered, it was the last to which the plague came: this angel…
Methodist theologian, 1762–1832
Adam Clarke
The angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem - By what means this destruction took place, we know not: it appears that an angel was employed in it, and that this minister of Divine justice actually…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
the angel Angels are God's ministers in temporal judgment now, as well as in the final judgment hereafter. Cp. Exo 12:23; Psa 78:49; 2Ki 19:35; Act 12:23; Mat 13:41.
theLord repented him of the evil…
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