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1 Chronicles 21:7-8

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

And God was displeased with this thing; therefore he smote Israel. And David said unto God, I have sinned greatly, because I have done this thing: but now I beseech thee, do away the iniquity of thy servant; for I have done very foolishly. We read that David’s heart smote him. Although he had gone wrong, he was nevertheless a good man, and when an...

1 Chronicles 21:7-15

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

Therefore he smote Israel. And David said unto God, I have sinned greatly, because I have done this thing: but now, I beseech thee, do away the iniquity of thy servant; for I have done very foolishly. And the LORD spake unto Gad, David’s seer, saying, GO and tell David, saying, Thus saith the LORD, I offer thee three things: choose thee one of...

1 Chronicles 21:9

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

Behold a son shall be born to thee, who shall be a man of rest. That is a very sweet name for Solomon, “A man of rest.” I pray that many a believer here may be a man of that kind. Some believers have to be men of war. There they are, in a world of struggles, disputes, contentions, of their own ambitions — but happy is that man who is of a gentle...

1 Chronicles 21:9-11

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

And the LORD spake unto Gad, David’s seer, saying, Go and tell David, saying, Thus saith the LORD, I offer thee three things: choose thee one of them, that I may do it unto thee. So Gad came to David, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Choose thee— One of them, that I may do it unto thee. David was to choose where there was no choice, for...

1 Chronicles 21:11-13

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

Now, my son, the LORD be with thee; and prosper thou, and build the house of the LORD thy God, as he hath said of thee. Only the LORD give thee wisdom and understanding, and give thee charge concerning Israel, that thou mayest keep the law of the LORD thy God. Then shalt thou prosper, if thou takest heed to fulfill the statutes and judgments which...

1 Chronicles 21:12-13

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

Either three years famine, or three months to be destroyed before thy foes, while that the sword of thine enemies overtaketh thee, or else three days the sword of the LORD, even the pestilence in the land, and the angel of the LORD destroying throughout all the coasts of Israel. Now therefore advise thyself what word I shall bring again to him...

1 Chronicles 21:14

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

Now behold, in my trouble I have prepared for the house of the LORD an hundred thousand talents of gold, Whatever sum that may have been, it could hardly have been a Babylonian talent, because that would have made him to have laid up one thousand millions sterling. 1Ch_21:14. And a thousand thousand talents of silver; and of brass and iron without...

1 Chronicles 21:15

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

Moreover there are workmen with thee in abundance, David had foreseen all that was wanted, and had got a list of the men of skill and art throughout all his land. 1Ch_21:15. Hewers and workers of stone and timber, and all manner of cunning men for every manner of work. You remember that text, “The Lord showed me four carpenters,” and so when the...

1 Chronicles 21:15-16

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

And the angel of the LORD stood by the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite. 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. This was the very...

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