John Gill's Exposition on 2 Samuel 24:25

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And David built there an altar unto the Lord, etc.] After he had made the purchase: and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings; the one to expiate the sin or sins committed, the other to give thanks for the intimation given, that the plague would be stayed upon this: so the Lord was entreated for the land; was pacified and prevailed upon to remove the pestilence from it; which was signified by fire descending upon the altar of burnt offering, which showed the sacrifice was accepted, and by the angel being ordered to put his sword into its sheath, (<132126>1 Chronicles 21:26,27); and the Targum is, “and the Lord received the prayer of the inhabitants of the land:” and the plague was stayed from Israel; no more died of the pestilence, either at Jerusalem, or in any other part of the land Israel. FOOTNOTES ft1 -- T. Bab. Bava Bathra, fol. 14. 2. ft2 -- Origin. l. 6. c. 2. ft3 -- Alting. Theolog. Hist. loc. 2. p. 86. ft4 -- Pesikta in Jarchi in loc. ft5 -- Tanchuma in Yalkut in loc. Hieron. Trad. Heb. in 2 lib. Reg. fol. 77. C. ft6 -- Antiqu. l. 6. c. 14. sect. 7. ft7 -- Ubyh “tunica scutulata”, Braunius; “ocellata chlamys”, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator; “thorax villosus seu pelliceus”, Texelii Phoenix, p. 210. ft8 -- Vid. Braunium de Vest. Sacredot. Heb. l. 1. c. 17. sect. 9. ft9 -- Ut supra. (Antiqu. l. 6. c. 14. sect. 7.) ft10 -- Vid. Liv. Hist. Decad. 1. l. 10. c. 44. ft11 -- T. Bab. Moed. Katon, fol. 26. 1. ft12 -- “-----it scissa veste Latinus”. Virgil. Aeneid. 12. prope finem. ft13 -- Hilchot Sanhedrin, c. 18. sect. 6. ft14 -- T. Bab. Yehamot, fol. 25. 2. Maimon. ibid. ft15 -- Bedford’s Chronology, p. 245. ft16 -- Nat. Hist. l. 7. c. 56. ft17 -- See Gregory’s Notes and Observations, etc. ch. 1. and Weemse of the Judicial Laws, c. 44. p. 171. ft18 -- Trad. Heb. in 2 lib. Reg. fol. 77. D. ft19 -- Cippi Heb. p. 34. ft20 -- Apud Hottinger not. in ib. see Bunting’s Travels, p, 131. ft21 -- Isocrates de Pace, p. 364. Horat. Carmin. l. 2. Ode 7. Tacitus de Mor. German. c. 6. Alex. ab Alex. Genial. Dier. l. 2. c. 13. ft22 -- Aelian. Hist. Animal. l. 15. c. 22. Vid. Ciceron. de Divinatione, l. 2. prope finem. ft23 -- Ut supra, (Travels etc.) p. 137. ft24 -- T. Bab. Bava Metzia, fol. 32. 2. and Sotah, fol. 14. 1. ft25 -- yk “licet enim”, V. L. “quamvis”, Piscator. So Pool and Patrick. ft26 -- µgw “tamen”, V. L. “nam similiter”, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator. ft27 -- Seder Olam Rabba, c. 13. p. 37. ft28 -- Bunting’s Travels, p. 146. ft29 -- Cornel. Nepos, Epaminond. l. 2. ft30 -- podav wkuv, Iliad. 1. lin. 15. ft31 -- Rapin’s History of England, vol. 1. p. 128. ft32 -- Aelian. Hist. de Animal, l. 14. c. 14. ft33 -- T. Bab. Sanhedrin, fol. 49. 1. ft34 -- “Transadigit costas, et crates pectoris ensom”. Virgil. Aeneod. l. 12. ver. 506. ft35 -- Vid. Scheuchzer. Physic. Sacr. vol. 3. p. 501. ft36 -- Weemse’s Portrait of Man, p. 24. ft37 -- “Autem”, V. L. Tiguriue version; “sed”, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator; so Kimchi. ft38 -- Travels, etc. p. 145, 146. ft39 -- Ibid. ft40 -- Diodor. Sic. l. 15. p. 383. ft41 -- De civilate Dei, l. 5. c. 23. ft42 -- Curtius, l. 3. c. 11. ft43 -- Hirtius de Bello African. c. 86. ft44 -- Antiqu. l. 7. c. 1. sect. 3. ft45 -- Antiqu. l. 7. c. 1. sect. 3. ft46 -- Pisgah-Sight of Palestine, B. 2. c. 14. sect. 21. p. 301. ft47 -- Travels, ut supra. (p. 145, 146.) ft48 -- Travels, ut supra. (p. 145, 146.) ft49 -- Jarchi, Kimchi, & Abarbinel in loc. ft50 -- Tanchuma apud Abarbinel in loc. ft51 -- T. Bab. Sanhedrin, f…

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