1 Chronicles 21:18 BSB

1 Chronicles 21:18

Then the angel of the LORD ordered Gad to tell David to go up and build an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

BSB

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ASV

Then the angel of Jehovah commanded Gad to say to David, that David should go up, and rear an altar unto Jehovah in the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

KJV

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.

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Commentary

5 voices

Jerome

LETTER 46.2 (420)

When of old the Philistines had been overcome, when their devilish audacity had been destroyed, when their champion had fallen on his face to the earth, it was from this city that there went forth a procession of jubilant souls, a harmonious choir to sing our David's victory over tens of thousands. Here, too, it was that the angel grasped his sword, and while he laid waste the whole of the ungodly city, he marked out the temple of the Lord in the threshing floor of Ornan, king of the Jebusites.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Thus the revelation of Jesus Christ was notified by the angel to John, and by him to the churches. The commanding of David to build an altar was a blessed token of reconciliation; for, if God had been pleased to kill him, he would not have appointed, because he would not have accepted, a sacrifice at his hands.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

But God sees not as man sees. It is plain it was wrong in David to do it, and a great provocation to God, because he did it in the pride of his heart; and there is no sin that has in it more of contradiction and therefore more of offence to God than pride. The sin was David's; he alone must bear the blame of it.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

It has been observed that it is only in books of a late period that Angels are brought forward as intermediaries between God and the prophets. This, no doubt, is true; and it is certainly unlikely that the records, from which the author of Chronicles drew, spoke of Gad as receiving his knowledge of God’s will from an angel.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Here we are informed of the quarter whence the prophet got his commission. It is only in the later stages of Israel's history that we find angels employed in communicating the divine will to the prophets. Ornan was threshing wheat--If the census was entered upon in autumn, the beginning of the civil year, the nine and a half months it occupied would end at wheat harvest.

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Original language & word study

16 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וּמַלְאַ֧ךְ	u.mal.'Akh	and [the] angel of	H4397 →
יְהוָ֛ה	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
אָמַ֥ר	'a.Mar	he said	H559 →
אֶל־	'el-	to	H413 →
גָּ֖ד	gad	Gad	H1410 →
לֵאמֹ֣ר	le.Mor	to say	H559 →
לְדָוִ֑יד	le.da.Vid	to David	H1732 →
כִּ֣י׀	ki	that	H3588 →
יַעֲלֶ֣ה	ya.'a.Leh	he will go up	H5927 →
דָוִ֗יד	da.Vid	David	H1732 →
לְהָקִ֤ים	le.ha.Kim	to set up	H6965 →
מִזְבֵּ֙חַ֙	miz.Be.ach	an altar	H4196 →
לַיהוָ֔ה	la.Yah.weh	to Yahweh	H3068 →
בְּגֹ֖רֶן	be.Go.ren	on [the] threshing floor of	H1637 →
אָרְנָ֥ן	'a.re.Nan	Ornan	H771 →
הַיְבֻסִֽי׃	hay.vu.Si	the Jebusite	H2983 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

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2 Chronicles 3:1
Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORD had appeared to his father David. This was the place that David had prepared on the…
leads to
- Genesis 22:14
  And Abraham called that place The LORD Will Provide. So to this day it is said, “On the mountain of the LORD it will be provided.”
- Genesis 22:2
  “Take your son,” God said, “your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah. Offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains, which I will…
- 1 Chronicles 22:1
  Then David said, “Here shall be the house of the LORD God, as well as the altar of burnt offering for Israel.”
Through
1 Chronicles 21:15
Then God sent an angel to destroy Jerusalem, but as the angel was doing so, the LORD saw it and relented from the calamity, and He said to the angel who was destroying the…
leads to
- Genesis 6:6
  And the LORD regretted that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.
- Exodus 32:14
  So the LORD relented from the calamity He had threatened to bring on His people.
- Matthew 23:37–38
  O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you…
- Mark 14:41
  When Jesus returned the third time, He said, “Are you still sleeping and resting? That is enough! The hour has come. Look, the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.
- Jeremiah 26:18

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Where the connections lead

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The walk

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