(1l) For when David. — Read, and when. There is no suggestion in the original, as seems to be implied in the English, that David’s repentance was in consequence of the visit of Gad; on the contrary, it was in consequence of his repentance and confession that the prophet was sent to him.
The prophet Gad. — This prophet has not been mentioned since his warning to David to return from the land of Moab (1 Samuel 22:5); but he had probably been all along one of David’s counsellors. From 1 Chronicles 29:29 it is not unlikely that this account was written by Gad.