Scofield Reference Bible Notes
1 Chronicles 21

1Ch 21:1 And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.

Satan

Satan, Job 1:6, 7, 8, 9, 12. (Gen 3:1; Rev 20:10.)

provoked

2Sa 24:1-9.

Heb. enticed.

1Ch 21:2 And David said to Joab and to the rulers of the people, Go, number Israel from Beersheba even to Dan; and bring the number of them to me, that I may know it.

bring the number of them to me

Cf. 1Ch 27:23, 24.

1Ch 21:4 Nevertheless the king's word prevailed against Joab. Wherefore Joab departed, and went throughout all Israel, and came to Jerusalem.

Joab departed, and went throughout all Israel

Here should read 2 Samuel 24:4-9.

1Ch 21:5 And Joab gave the sum of the number of the people unto David. And all they of Israel were a thousand and an hundred thousand men that drew sword: and Judah was four hundred threescore and ten thousand men that drew sword.

were a thousand and an hundred thousand men

Cf. Scofield 2Sa 24:9, note.

1Ch 21:9 And the LORD spake unto Gad, David's seer, saying,

seer

1Sa 9:9; see 2Ki 17:13; 1Ch 29:29; 2Ch 16:7, 10; Isa 30:9, 10; Amo 7:12, 13.

1Ch 21:10 Go and tell David, saying, Thus saith the LORD, I offer thee three things: choose thee one of them, that I may do it unto thee.

I offer thee three things

2Sa 24:12-14.

1Ch 21:12 Either three years' famine; or three months to be destroyed before thy foes, while that the sword of thine enemies overtaketh thee; or else three days the sword of the LORD, even the pestilence, in the land, and the angel of the LORD destroying throughout all the coasts of Israel. Now therefore advise thyself what word I shall bring again to him that sent me.

angel [See also 1Ch 21:15, 16, 18, 20, 27, 30.]

Scofield Hebrews 1:4, note.

1Ch 21:15 And God sent an angel unto Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he was destroying, the LORD beheld, and he repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed, It is enough, stay now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD stood by the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.

God sent an angel unto Jerusalem to destroy it

Cf. 2Sa 24:16.

Ornan

Called Araunah, 2Sa 24:16.

1Ch 21:23 And Ornan said unto David, Take it to thee, and let my lord the king do that which is good in his eyes: lo, I give thee the oxen also for burnt offerings, and the threshing instruments for wood, and the wheat for the meat offering; I give it all.

meat

Literally meal.

1Ch 21:25 So David gave to Ornan for the place six hundred shekels of gold by weight.

six hundred

A discrepancy has been imagined in the two accounts, 2Sa 24:24 and 1Ch 21:25. 2Sa 24:24 records the price of the threshingfloor (Hebrew goren); 1Ch 21:25, of the place (Hebrew magom, lit. "home," 1Sa 2:20, same word) or area on which afterward the great temple, with its spacious courts was built (2Ch 3:1). David gave fifty shekels of sliver for the "goren"; six hundred shekels of gold for the "magom."

shekel…of gold

One shekel (gold) = £2. 1s., or $9.69 [In 1917].

1Ch 21:29 For the tabernacle of the LORD, which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of the burnt offering, were at that season in the high place at Gibeon.

the tabernacle…at Gibeon

Cf. Scofield 1Ch 16:37, note; 1Ki 3:4; 2Ch 1:3.