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1 Chronicles 21:17

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

David also commanded all the princes of Israel to help Solomon his son, saying, What a grand thing it is when a man has true-hearted helpers, men who are ready to stint themselves, annihilate themselves, as it were, to help some other man to do the work of the Lord, quite satisfied to be themselves unknown, so long as the house of the Lord is...

1 Chronicles 21:17

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

And David said unto God, Is it not I that commanded the people to be numbered? even I it is that have sinned and done evil indeed, but as for those sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, O LORD my God, be on me, and on my father’s house; but not on thy people, that they should be plagued. Here we see David at his best; and what a...

1 Chronicles 21:18

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

Is not the LORD your God with you? and hath he not given you rest on every side? for he hath given the inhabitants of the land into mine hand; and the land is subdued before the LORD, and before his people. So then they had not to fight, but to work. If Jesus Christ has conquered all our foes, and routed all our sins; if sin, and death, and hell...

1 Chronicles 21:18-27

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

Then the angel of the LORD commanded Gad to say to David, that David should go up, and set up as altar unto the LORD in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite. And David went up at the saying of Gad, which he spake in the name of the LORD. And Ornan turned back, and saw the angel; and his four sons with him hid themselves. Now Ornan was...

1 Chronicles 21:18-20

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

Then the angel of the LORD commanded Gad to say to David, that David should go up, and set up an altar unto the LORD in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite. And David went up at the saying of Gad, which he spake in the name of the LORD. And Ornan turned back, and saw the angel; He was busy at his threshing, and he saw the angel standing by...

1 Chronicles 21:20-23

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

Now Ornan was threshing wheat. And as David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David, and went out of the threshingfloor, and bowed himself to David with his face to the ground. Then David said to Ornan, Grant me the place of this threshingfloor, that I may build an altar therein unto the LORD: thou shalt grant it me for the full price: that the...

1 Chronicles 21:24-25

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

And king David said to Ornan, Nay; but I will verily buy it for the full price: for I will no take that which is thine for the LORD, nor offer burnt offerings without cost. So David gave to Ornan for the place six hundred shekels of gold by weight. Not paid there and then, for he did not carry that amount with him, but fifty shekels of silver were...

1 Chronicles 21:25-28

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

So David gave to Ornan for the place six hundred shekels of gold by weight. And David built there an altar unto the LORD, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and called upon the LORD; and he answered him from heaven by fire upon the altar of burnt offering. And the LORD commanded the angel; and he put up his sword again into the...

1 Chronicles 21:26-27

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

And David built there an altar unto the LORD, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and called upon the LORD; and he answered him from heaven by fire upon the altar of burnt offering. And the LORD commanded the angel; and he put up his sword again into the sheath thereof. “And David built there” — that is upon the threshing-floor of...

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