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2 Samuel 24:11-17

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David's Punishment

11 When David got up in the morning, a revelation from the Lord had come to the prophet Gad, David's seer:
12 "Go and say to David, 'This is what the Lord says: I am offering you three [choices]. Choose one of them, and I will do it to you.' "
13 So Gad went to David, told him [the choices], and asked him, "Do you want three[a] years of famine to come on your land, to flee from your foes three months while they pursue you, or to have a plague in your land three days? Now, think it over and decide what answer I should take back to the One who sent me."
14 David answered Gad, "I have great anxiety. Please, let us fall into the Lord's hands because His mercies are great,[b] but don't let me fall into human hands."
15 So the Lord sent a plague on Israel from that morning until the appointed time, and from Dan to Beer-sheba 70,000 men died.
16 Then the angel extended his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it,[c] but the Lord relented concerning the destruction[d] and said to the angel who was destroying the people, "Enough, withdraw your hand now!" The angel of the Lord was then at the threshing floor of Araunah[e] the Jebusite.
17 When David saw the angel striking the people, he said to the Lord, "Look, I am the one who has sinned; I am the one[f] who has done wrong. But these sheep, what have they done? Please, let Your hand be against me and my father's family."[g]
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2 Samuel 24:11-17 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO SECOND SAMUEL 24

In this chapter an account is given of David's numbering of the people, 2Sa 24:1-9; of the sense he had of his sin, and of his acknowledgment of it; and of the Lord's displeasure at it, who sent the prophet Gad to him, to propose three things to him, one of which he was to choose as a punishment for it, 2Sa 24:10-13; when he chose the pestilence, which carried off a great number of the people, 2Sa 24:14-17; and David was directed to build an altar to the Lord in the threshingfloor of Araunah the Jebusite, with whom he agreed for it, and built one on it, and offered upon it, and so the plague was stayed, 2Sa 24:18-25.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
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Footnotes 7

  • [a] LXX; MT reads seven; 1 Ch 21:12
  • [b] Ps 103:8-18
  • [c] 2 Kg 19:35
  • [d] Ex 32:14; Am 7:3,6
  • [e] Ornan; 1 Ch 21:15-28; 2 Ch 3:1
  • [f] LXX reads shepherd
  • [g] 1 Ch 21:9-17
Holman Christian Standard Bible ® Copyright © 2003, 2002, 2000, 1999 by Holman Bible Publishers.  Used by permission.  All rights reserved.

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