1 Chronicles 21:17

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 these 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.

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
David	דָּוִ֣יד da.Vid	H1732	David · proper noun, a man's name
said	וַיֹּ֣אמֶר vai.Yo.mer	H559	to say (used with great latitude) · conjunction + verb, qal sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular
God	הָאֱלֹהִ֡ים ha.'E.lo.Him	H430	gods in the ordinary sense · definite article + noun, common masculine plural absolute
commanded	אָמַ֜רְתִּי 'a.Mar.ti	H559	to say (used with great latitude) · verb, qal perfect, 1st person common singular
people	בָּעָ֗ם ba.'Am	H5971	a people (as a congregated unit) · preposition with the article + noun, common masculine singular absolute
numbered	לִמְנ֣וֹת lim.Not	H4487	properly · preposition + verb, qal infinitive construct

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Cross-references

Ezekiel 16:63 That thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and never open thy mouth any more because of thy shame, when I am pacified toward thee for all…
Genesis 44:33 Now therefore, I pray thee, let thy servant abide instead of the lad a bondman to my lord; and let the lad go up with his brethren.
Exodus 20:5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon…
Exodus 32:32-33 Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin—; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written.
Joshua 22:18 But that ye must turn away this day from following the LORD? and it will be, seeing ye rebel to day against the LORD, that to morrow he will…
2 Samuel 7:8 Now therefore so shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, from following the shee…
2 Samuel 12:10 Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thine house; because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to…
2 Samuel 24:1 And again the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he moved David against them to say, Go, number Israel and Judah.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on 1 Chronicles 21:7-17

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 was corrected. If God's dearest children do amiss, they must expect to smart for it. 1. He is given to understand that God is displeased; and that it is no small uneasiness to so good a man as David, Ch1 21:7. God takes notice of, and is displeased with, the sins of his people; and no sin is more displeasing to him than pride of heart: nor is anything more humbling, and grieving, and mortifying to a gracious soul, than to see itself under God's displeasure. 2. He is put to his choice whether he…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 1 Chronicles 21:16

David and the elders . . . clothed in sackcloth, fell upon their faces--They appeared in the garb and assumed the attitude of humble penitents, confessing their sins, and deprecating the wrath of God.

Adam Clarke on 1 Chronicles 21:15

And God sent an angel - Thus the Targum: "And the Word of the Lord sent the angel of death against Jerusalem to destroy it; and he beheld the ashes of the binding of Isaac at the foot of the altar, and he remembered his covenant with Abraham, which he made in the Mount of Worship; and the house of the upper sanctuary, where are the souls of the righteous, and the image of Jacob fixed on the throne of glory; and he turned in his Word from the evil which he designed to do unto them; and he said to the destroying angel, Cease; take Abishai their chief from among them, and cease from smiting the rest of the people. And the angel which was sent from the presence of the Lord stood at the threshing…

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John Gill on 1 Chronicles 21:1

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Dictionary and topics

Gad — Fortune; luck. (1.) Jacob’s seventh son, by Zilpah, Leah’s handmaid, and the brother of Asher (Gen. 30:11-13; 46:16, 18). In the Authorized Version of 30:11 the words, “A troop cometh: and she…
Temptation — (1.) Trial; a being put to the test. Thus God “tempted [Gen. 22: 1; R.V., ‘did prove’] Abraham;” and afflictions are said to tempt, i.e., to try, men (James 1:2, 12; comp. Deut. 8:2), putting their…
Araunah · Al — Al
Nation · Involved in sins of rulers — Involved in sins of rulers
Ornan · A Jebusite — A Jebusite
Sheep · FIGURATIVE — FIGURATIVE
Unselfishness · .David — .David
Vision · .Of the angel of the Lord besi — .Of the angel of the Lord besi

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

1 Chronicles 21:17

Word by word — the Hebrew

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on 1 Chronicles 21:7-17

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 1 Chronicles 21:16

Adam Clarke on 1 Chronicles 21:15

John Gill on 1 Chronicles 21:1

Dictionary and topics

1 Chronicles 21:17

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on 1 Chronicles 21:7-17

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 1 Chronicles 21:16

Adam Clarke on 1 Chronicles 21:15

John Gill on 1 Chronicles 21:1

Dictionary and topics

Keil & Delitzsch on 1 Chronicles 21:1-27

Tyndale Open Study Notes on 1 Chronicles 21:16-17

Rashi on 1 Chronicles 21:17