2 Samuel 24:15 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ So the LORD sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning even to the time appointed: and there died of the people from Dan even to Beersheba seventy thousand men. ”

2 Samuel 24:15 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The time appointed - Perhaps “the time of the assembly,” meaning the time of the evening sacrifice, at three o’clock, when the people assembled for prayer, more commonly described as “the time of...
2 Samuel 24:15 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

So the LORD sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning even to the time appointed: and there died of the people from (h) Dan even to Beersheba seventy thousand men. (h) From the one side of the...
2 Samuel 24:15 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

1 Samuel 24. The Census (J). ( Cf. p. 292.) This event also may belong to the beginning of David's reign over all Israel. 2 Samuel 24:1-9 . Here is another illustration of the imperfect recog...
2 Samuel 24:15 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

time appointed . Septuagint and Syriac say the plague lasted only till noon. So this "time" may mean for the evening sacrifice, 3pm (Compare 2 Samuel 24:18 ).
2 Samuel 24:15 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 328 DAVID NUMBERING THE PEOPLE 2 Samuel 24:11-15 . When David was up in the morning, the word of the Lord came unto the prophet Gad, David’s seer, saying, Go and say unto David, Thus...
2 Samuel 24:15 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

So the LORD sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning even to the time appointed: and there died of the people from Dan even to Beersheba seventy thousand men. From the morning - to the time app...
2 Samuel 24:15 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Even to the time appointed— There seems nothing difficult in this passage, as some have supposed: the plain meaning appears to be, that the pestilence, commencing in the morning, continued even to...
2 Samuel 24:15 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

So the LORD sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning even to the time appointed: and there died of the people from Dan even to Beersheba seventy thousand men. So the Lord sent a pestile...
2 Samuel 24:15 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Numbering of the People, and its Penalty In punishment for David's sin in numbering the people, God sends a pestilence, which slays 70,000 men. In gratitude for the stay of the plague, David e...
2 Samuel 24:15 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

The time appointed. — Much difficulty has been found with this expression; but, if the Hebrew can bear this meaning, it may be understood well enough of the time (somewhat less than three days, 2...
2 Samuel 24:15 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

CHAPTER XXXII. THE NUMBERING OF ISRAEL. 2 Samuel 24:1-25 THOUGH David's life was now drawing to its close, neither his sins nor his chastisements were yet exhausted. One of his chief offences...
2 Samuel 24:15 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Judgment Stayed by Sacrifice 2 Samuel 24:15-25 The pestilence swept through the land like cholera or the black death in modern times. At last it approached the Holy City. It seemed as if the an...
2 Samuel 24:15 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The Book closes with one other picture, reminding us of the direct government of the people by God in that He visited the king and the nation with punishment for numbering the people. It has been ob...
2 Samuel 24:15 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(14) And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let us fall now into the hand of the LORD; for his mercies are great: and let me not fall into the hand of man. (15) So the LORD sent a pestilenc...
2 Samuel 24:15 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

So the Lord sent a pestilence upon Israel ,.... Upon the land of Israel, the people of the land, directly employing an angel to go through the coasts of it, and empowering him to inflict a pestilent...
2 Samuel 24:15 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

So the LORD sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning even to the time appointed: and there died of the people from Dan even to Beersheba seventy thousand men. Ver. 15. From the morning, even...
2 Samuel 24:15 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

So the Lord sent a pestilence upon Israel The event immediately answered to the choice; a plague instantly ensued. From the morning even to the time appointed From that morning, in which Gad came...
2 Samuel 24:15 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

The reason for God's anger burning against Israel (v.1) is not told us: if there is no public occasion for it, then it must be due to the moral and spiritual condition of the nation. Very likely that...
2 Samuel 24:15 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Numbering of the People Punished. B. C. 1017. 10 And David's heart smote him after...
2 Samuel 24:15 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

To the time appointed; either, 1. From morning to evening, which is here called the time appointed; or, the time of the convention , or, public meeting , as this Hebrew word oft signifies, i. e...
2 Samuel 24:15 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

2 Samuel 24:1 . “ Again ,” Evidently referring to the famine mentioned in 2 Samuel 21:1-14 . “ Israel .” Some special national guilt not specified must be here referred to. If, as most writers supp...
2 Samuel 24:15 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

2 Samuel 24:1 . The Lord moved David. He permitted Satan to stand up against Israel. 1 Chronicles 21:1 . 2 Samuel 24:9 . There were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men that drew the s...
2 Samuel 24:15 - The Biblical Illustrator

Go, number Israel and Judah. David numbering the people I. The sin committed by David. It is possible that David dwelt with satisfaction upon the thought of his ample resources and numerous arm...
2 Samuel 24:15 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION 2 Samuel 24:1 And again the anger of Jehovah was kindled against Israel. It is probable that this chapter once stood in intimate connection with 2 Samuel 21:1-10 ; and that th...
2 Samuel 24:15 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Pestilence
2 Samuel 24:15 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Chronicles 21:14 ; 1 Chronicles 27:4 ; 1 Samuel 6:19 ; 2 Samuel 24:2 ; Isaiah 37:36 ; Matthew 24:7 ; Numbers 16:46-49 ; Numbers 25:9 ; Revelation 6:8

2 Samuel 24:15 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

2 Samuel 24:15 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

2 Samuel 24:15 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

2 Samuel 24:15 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

2 Samuel 24:15 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

2 Samuel 24:15 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

2 Samuel 24:15 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

2 Samuel 24:15 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

2 Samuel 24:15 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

2 Samuel 24:15 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

2 Samuel 24:15 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

2 Samuel 24:15 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

2 Samuel 24:15 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

2 Samuel 24:15 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

2 Samuel 24:15 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

2 Samuel 24:15 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

2 Samuel 24:15 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

2 Samuel 24:15 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

2 Samuel 24:15 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

2 Samuel 24:15 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

2 Samuel 24:15 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

2 Samuel 24:15 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

2 Samuel 24:15 - The Biblical Illustrator

2 Samuel 24:15 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

2 Samuel 24:15 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

2 Samuel 24:15 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge