Verse 16
16. The Lord repented him He saw the penitence and humiliation of David and his people, and in his sympathetic relation to them his divine emotionality changed. See the note on 1 Samuel 15:11.
The angel that destroyed It is clearly a doctrine of Holy Scripture that God uses angels as ministers and messengers of his will. Not only do they minister for the heirs of salvation, (Hebrews 1:14; Matthew 18:10; Acts 12:7-10,) but also, under God, execute the divine judgments upon the wicked. 2 Kings 19:35; Acts 12:23.
It is enough This certainly does not mean, as some assume, that the plague was stayed before the third day, but only that it fell not on Jerusalem.
Threshing-place See on Ruth 3:2.
Araunah Called Ornan in Chronicles. Josephus says of him: “He was a wealthy man among the Jebusites, but was not slain by David in the siege of Jerusalem because of the good will he bore to the Hebrews, and a particular benignity and affection which he had to the king himself.”
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