撒母耳记下 24:16

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

當天使向耶路撒冷伸手，要毀滅耶路撒冷的時候，耶和華就後悔降這災禍，就對那毀滅眾民的天使說：“夠了，現在住手吧！”那時，耶和華的天使在耶布斯人亞勞拿的打禾場那裡。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
天 使 向 耶 路 撒 冷 伸 手 要 灭 城 的 时 候 ， 耶 和 华 後 悔 ， 就 不 降 这 灾 了 ， 吩 咐 灭 民 的 天 使 说 ： 够 了 ！ 住 手 罢 ！ 那 时 耶 和 华 的 使 者 在 耶 布 斯 人 亚 劳 拿 的 禾 场 那 里 。

Contextual Overview

¹⁰ David felt ashamed after he had counted the people. He said to the Lord , "I have sinned greatly by what I have done. Lord , I beg you to forgive me, your servant, because I have been very foolish." ¹¹ When David got up in the morning, the Lord spoke his word to Gad, who was a prophet and David's seer. ¹² The Lord told Gad, "Go and tell David, ‘This is what the Lord says: I offer you three choices. Choose one of them and I will do it to you.'" ¹³ So Gad went to David and said to him, "Should three years of hunger come to you and your land? Or should your enemies chase you for three months? Or should there be three days of disease in your land? Think about it. Then decide which of these things I should tell the Lord who sent me." ¹⁴ David said to Gad, "I am in great trouble. Let the Lord punish us, because the Lord is very merciful. Don't let my punishment come from human beings!" ¹⁵ So the Lord sent a terrible disease on Israel. It began in the morning and continued until the chosen time to stop. From Dan to Beersheba seventy thousand people died. ¹⁶ When the angel raised his arm toward Jerusalem to destroy it, the Lord felt very sorry about the terrible things that had happened. He said to the angel who was destroying the people, "That is enough! Put down your arm!" The angel of the Lord was then by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite. ¹⁷ When David saw the angel that killed the people, he said to the Lord , "I am the one who sinned and did wrong. These people only followed me like sheep. They did nothing wrong. Please punish me and my family."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the angel: Exodus 12:23, 2 Kings 19:35, 1 Chronicles 21:15, 1 Chronicles 21:16, 2 Chronicles 32:21, Psalms 35:6, Acts 12:23

repented: Genesis 6:6, 1 Samuel 15:11, Psalms 78:38, Psalms 90:13, Psalms 135:14, Jeremiah 18:7-10, Joel 2:13, Joel 2:14, Amos 7:3, Amos 7:6, Habakkuk 3:2

It is enough: Exodus 9:28, 1 Kings 19:4, Isaiah 27:8, Isaiah 40:1, Isaiah 40:2, Isaiah 57:16, Joel 2:13, Joel 2:14, Mark 14:41, 2 Corinthians 2:6

Araunah: 2 Samuel 24:18, 1 Chronicles 21:15, 2 Chronicles 3:1, Ornan

the Jebusite: 2 Samuel 5:8, Genesis 10:16, Joshua 15:63, Judges 1:21, Judges 19:11, Zechariah 9:7

Reciprocal: Exodus 32:14 - General Numbers 16:48 - General Joshua 11:3 - the Jebusite 1 Chronicles 1:14 - Jebusite 1 Chronicles 21:27 - the Lord Job 33:22 - his life Psalms 106:45 - repented Proverbs 29:8 - wise Isaiah 37:36 - the angel Jeremiah 26:19 - and the Lord Jeremiah 42:10 - for I Hosea 11:8 - Mine 1 Corinthians 10:10 - destroyer

Cross-References

Genesis 4:1
Adam had sexual relations with his wife Eve, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Cain. Eve said, "With the Lord 's help, I have given birth to a man."

Genesis 24:17
The servant ran to her and said, "Please give me a little water from your jar."

Genesis 24:18
Rebekah said, "Drink, sir." She quickly lowered the jar from her shoulder and gave him a drink.

Genesis 26:7
His wife Rebekah was very beautiful, and the men of that place asked Isaac about her. Isaac said, "She is my sister," because he was afraid to tell them she was his wife. He thought they might kill him so they could have her.

Genesis 39:6
So Potiphar left Joseph in charge of everything he owned and was not concerned about anything except the food he ate. Now Joseph was well built and handsome.

Song of Solomon 5:2
I sleep, but my heart is awake. I hear my lover knocking. "Open to me, my sister, my darling, my dove, my perfect one. My head is wet with dew, and my hair with the dampness of the night."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it,.... Which, as it was perhaps the last place where the people were numbered, it was the last to which the plague came: this angel appeared in an human form, standing "between the earth and the heaven"; in the midst of the heaven, in the air, right over Jerusalem: "having a drawn sword in his hand stretched over the city"; as is said in 1 Chronicles 21:16; which was done as a menace, and to inject terror into David and the inhabitants of the city, and to give them notice of what they must expect:

the Lord repented him of the evil; he was inflicting, and now threatened Jerusalem with; having compassion on the place where the ark, the symbol of his presence, was, where a temple was to be built to the honour of his name, and where he should be worshipped; and therefore stopped proceeding; as men, when they repent of anything done by them, cease from it, so did the Lord now; otherwise repentance, properly speaking, falls not on him, and so it is next explained:

and said to the angel that destroyed the people; not the angel of death, the devil, but a good angel, who had a commission from God for this business:

it is enough: stay now thine hand: there is a sufficient number slay no more:

and the angel of the Lord was by the threshing place of Araunah the Jebusite; that is, he was in the air, right over the spot, or near it, where was this man's threshingfloor; and was seen by Araunah and his four sons, who upon it hid themselves, perhaps among the sheaves they were threshing, 1 Chronicles 21:20; and this threshingfloor was on Mount Moriah, 2 Chronicles 3:1; as threshingfloors commonly were on mountains for the sake of winnowing the corn when threshed; 2 Chronicles 3:1- :; who, according to Ben Gersom, though he was by birth a Jebusite, was proselyted to the Jewish religion.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Samuel 24:16. The angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem — By what means this destruction took place, we know not: it appears that an angel was employed in it, and that this minister of Divine justice actually appeared as an object. of sight; for it is said, 2 Samuel 24:17, When David saw the angel that smote the people, he said, c. and both Ornan and his four sons saw him and were affrighted, 1 Chronicles 21:20.

The threshing-place of Araunah — These threshing-places, we have already seen, were made in the open air. In the parallel place, 1 Chronicles 21:15; 1 Chronicles 21:20, c., this person is called Ornan. The word that we render Araunah is written in this very chapter אורנה Auarnah, 2 Samuel 24:16, ארניה Araniah, 2 Samuel 24:18, ארונה Araunah or Araunah, 2 Samuel 24:20, and the following: but in every place in 1 Chronicles 21:1-30 where it occurs it is written ארנן Ornan. It is likely he had both names, Araunah and Ornan: but the varieties of spelling in 2 Samuel must arise from the blunders of transcribers.