Geneva Bible Notes: 1 Chronicles 21

1 Chronicles 21:1 (!) Dauid causeth the people to be nombred.

1 Chronicles 21:1 (a) He tempted Dauid in setting before his eyes his excellencie & glorie, his power & victories, read {2 Sam. 24,1}

1 Chronicles 21:2 (b) That is, from Southe to North.

1 Chronicles 21:3 (c) It was a thing indifferent & vsual to nomber the people, but because he did it of an ambitious minde, as thogh his strength stode in his people, God punished him.

1 Chronicles 21:5 (e) In Samuel is mention of thirtie thousand more: which was ether by joyning to them some of the Benjamites, which were mixed with Judah, or as the Ebrewes write, here the chief & princes are left out.

1 Chronicles 21:5 (d) Joab partely for grief and partly through neglience gathered not the whole sumeas it is here declared.

1 Chronicles 21:9 (/) Or, Prophet.

1 Chronicles 21:12 (/) Or, smite thee.

1 Chronicles 21:14 (!) And there dye seuentie thousand men of the pestilence.

1 Chronicles 21:15 (f) Read {2 Sam. 24, 16}

1 Chronicles 21:15 (g) When God draweth backe his plagues, he semeth to repent, read {Gen. 6,6].

1 Chronicles 21:15 (/) Or, Araunah.

1 Chronicles 21:17 (h) Thus he bothe sheweth a true repentance and a fatherlie care toward his people, which desireth God to spare them and to punish him and his.

1 Chronicles 21:20 (i) If man hide him selfe at the sight of an Angel which is a creature, how much lesse is a sinner able to appeare before the face of God?

1 Chronicles 21:22 (k) Thus he did by the commandment of God as {vers 18} for els it had bene abominable except he had ether Gods worde, or reuelacion.

1 Chronicles 21:24 (l) That is, as muche as it is worthe: for hauing ynough of his owne & yet to haue taken of another mans goods to offer vnto the Lord, it had bene theft and not acceptable to God.

1 Chronicles 21:25 (m) Read {2 Sam. 24,24]

1 Chronicles 21:26 (n) God declared that he heard his request in that he sent downe fire from heauen: for els thei might vse no fire in sacrifice, but of that which was reserued stil vpon the altar, {Leui. 6,13} & came down from heauen, {Leui. 9,24}, as appeared by the punishement of Nadab and Abihu, {Leu. 10,1}