2 Samuel 24:11 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

For when David— There is an error here in our translation, which gives us to apprehend that David's penitence was the effect of Gad's threat: for, says the text, when David was up, whereas the word which is translated for, should be rendered and; it being not a casual, but a connective particle. Houbigant renders it deinde, afterwards.

2 Samuel 24:11

11 For when David was up in the morning, the word of the LORD came unto the prophet Gad, David's seer, saying,