Afflicted Command Commanded Count Counted David Disease Evil Fall Family Father's Fighting Flock Household Indeed Isn't Lifted Numbered O Order Ordered Plague Plagued Please Sheep Sin Sinned Smitten Wickedly Wrong Yea
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 {h} thy people, that they should be plagued.
(h) Thus he both shows a true repentance and a fatherly care toward his people, who desire God to spare them, and to punish him and his.
21:1-30 David's numbering the people. - No mention is made in this book of David's sin in the matter of Uriah, neither of the troubles that followed it: they had no needful connexion with the subjects here noted. But David's sin, in numbering the people, is related: in the atonement made for that sin, there was notice of the place on which the temple should be built. The command to David to build an altar, was a blessed token of reconciliation. God testified his acceptance of David's offerings on this altar. Thus Christ was made sin, and a curse for us; it pleased the Lord to bruise him, that through him, God might be to us, not a consuming Fire, but a reconciled God. It is good to continue attendance on those ordinances in which we have experienced the tokens of God's presence, and have found that he is with us of a truth. Here God graciously met me, therefore I will still expect to meet him.
Afflicted Commanded Count David Evil Father's Hand House Indeed Numbered Plagued Please Sheep Sinned Wickedly
Afflicted Commanded Count David Evil Father's Hand House Indeed Numbered Plagued Please Sheep Sinned Wickedly
