Sāmǔĕrjìxià 24:15

15 Yúshì , Yēhéhuá jiàng wēnyì yǔ Yǐsèliè rén , zì zǎochen dào suǒ déng de shíhou . cóng dàn zhídào Bièshìbā , mínjiān sǐ le qī wàn rén .

Sāmǔĕrjìxià 24:15 Meaning and Commentary

2 Samuel 24:15

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 pestilential disease:

from the morning even to the time appointed:
from the morning the prophet Gad came to David with a message from the Lord; that very morning the plague began, and lasted to the time set for it, the three days, or at least unto the beginning of the third, when reaching Jerusalem, the Lord repented of it, and stayed his hand; though many think a much shorter time is intended; some think it lasted no more than half a day, if so much; some say but three hours F6; the Septuagint version, until dinnertime; and the Syriac and Arabic versions, until the sixth hour of the day, which was noon; and so Kimchi says, some of their Rabbins interpret it of the half or middle of the day; the Targum is,

``from the time the daily sacrifice was slain until it was burnt;''

and it is the sense of several learned men that it was only from the morning until the time of the evening sacrifice, or evening prayer, about three o'clock in the afternoon, and so lasted about nine hours:

and there died of the people, from Dan even to Beersheba, seventy
thousand men;
so that there was a great diminution of the people in all places where they were numbered; and David's sin may be read in the punishment of it; his heart was lifted up by the numbers of his people, and now it must be humbled by the lessening of them.


FOOTNOTES:

F6 Pirke Eliezer, c. 43.

Sāmǔĕrjìxià 24:15 In-Context

13 Yúshì Jiādé lái jiàn Dàwèi , duì tā shuō , nǐ yuànyì guó zhōng yǒu qī nián de jīhuāng ne . shì zaì nǐ dírén miànqián taópǎo , beì zhuīgǎn sān gè yuè ne . shì zaì nǐ guó zhōng yǒu sān rì de wēnyì ne . xiànzaì nǐ yào chuǎimó sīxiǎng , wǒ hǎo huí fù nà chāi wǒ lái de .
14 Dàwèi duì Jiādé shuō , wǒ shén wèi nán . wǒ yuàn luō zaì Yēhéhuá de shǒu lǐ , yīnwei tā yǒu fēngshèng de liánmǐn . wǒ bù yuàn luō zaì rén de shǒu lǐ .
15 Yúshì , Yēhéhuá jiàng wēnyì yǔ Yǐsèliè rén , zì zǎochen dào suǒ déng de shíhou . cóng dàn zhídào Bièshìbā , mínjiān sǐ le qī wàn rén .
16 Tiānshǐ xiàng Yēlùsǎlĕng shēnshǒu yào miè chéng de shíhou , Yēhéhuá hòuhuǐ , jiù bú jiàng zhè zāi le , fēnfu miè mín de tiānshǐ shuō , gòu le , zhù shǒu ba . nàshí Yēhéhuá de shǐzhĕ zaì Yēbùsīrén yà laó ná de hécháng nàli .
17 Dàwèi kànjian miè mín de tiānshǐ , jiù dǎogào Yēhéhuá shuō , wǒ fàn le zuì , xíng le è . dàn zhè qún yáng zuò le shénme ne . yuàn nǐde shǒu gōngjī wǒ hé wǒde fù jiā .
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