1 Chronicles 21

1 Chronicles 21:1

STood up] troubled their rest, and hindered the course of Gods blessings, and renewed his combats with the people, assaulting of David their head.

1 Chronicles 21:3

Are they not] this numbering of them, will not binde them by stricter bonds, nor make them more faithfull to thee: as your mustered souldiers have in that kinde a more peculiar Oath ministred unto them: [of trespasse] he saith this, perceiving that there was sinne in this enterprise of the Kings, which could not chuse according to the custome of Kings sinnes, but cause some great calamitie to the people.

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And all they] of all the other Tribes besides Iudah, which was numbred by it selfe, and Benjamin, and Levi, which were not numbred at all, ver. 6.

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Said] before the plague began.

1 Chronicles 21:18

The Angel] not the destroying Angell but the Sonne of God himselfe, who did appear to the Prophets.

1 Chronicles 21:20

The Angel] this it is likely was the destroying Angel, ver. 16.

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Answered him] hee declared by this sign of fire descending from heaven, that hee accepted of his sacrifice, see Leviticus 9:24. Iudg. 6. 21. 1 Kings 18 38. 2 Chron.〈◊〉. 1.

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He sacrificed] he sacrificed there ordinarily, besides that first sacrifice which hee sacrificed there, being commanded by God.

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Could not] by reason of the great haste he had to appease the Lord, and to deliver Jerusalem from the scourge of mortality: [to enquire] to crare his grace and pardon, by prayere and seacrifices.