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Commentaries on 1 Chronicles 21:1

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John Gill - Exposition

John Gill

INTRODUCTION TO 1 CHRONICLES 21 Excepting the three last verses, is contained in 2 Samuel 24:1 with some few variations, which are there observed; see the notes there.

Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary

Matthew Henry

As this rehearsal makes no mention of David's sin in the matter of Uriah, so neither of the troubles of his family that followed upon it; not a word of Absalom's rebellion, or Sheba's. But David's sin, in numbering the people, is here related, because, in the atonement made for that sin, an intimation was given of the spot of ground on which the temple should be built. Here is, I. David's sin, in...

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions

Charles H. Spurgeon

And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel. Israel had greatly offended and grieved God, and it was to be punished. God punished one sin by another: the sin of David works for the chastisement of a sinful people.