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The Thresher (after Millet) - (1889)
Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890)
Post-Impressionism Style
Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Image Source: Wikiart
[ Illustration: The threshing depicted in today's painting is similar to the threshing Ornan was doing when the angel of the LORD appeared at his threshingfloor, as described in today's chapter. ]
SPECIAL NOTE:
[ I will again be working through the Scriptures from Genesis to Revelation. I will be adding links, resources, images, and the like, upgrading the former work-through which began with the 2013-10-12 posting which can be found, along with the full Genesis to Revelation postings, in the Archive Page. Postings will be at midnight Eastern Time, as I am able. However, no chapters will be skipped, even though a posting may be late. And all postings will be housed in the Archive Page. ]
Explanation: 1 Chronicles 21 gives the account of David's sin of numbering the people and of the plague brought by the angel of the LORD. Traditional Patriarchal Timeline. Judges. Judges Period Chronology. Kings of Judah and Israel #1. Kings of Judah and Israel #2].
Satan provoked David to number Israel. The parallel passage (2 Samuel 24:1) attributes the provocation to the LORD. So the provocation came from the LORD through Satan. The reason was the anger of the LORD against Israel, perhaps for idolatry or for some other undisclosed reason. Taxes (Exodus 30:12; Numbers 3:40-51) and military service (Numbers 26:1-4) were the main reasons for having a census. David's reason was probably militarily oriented. When a census was taken, a ransom was required to avoid a plague (Exodus 30:11-16). When David commanded Joab and the rulers of the people to number the people, Joab pleaded with David not to do this and thereby to bring a trespass upon Israel. The trespass Joab may have had in mind was a refusal by David to pay the ransom mentioned in Exodus 30:11-16. But the king's word prevailed; and Joab numbered the people but left out the tribes of Levi and Benjamin. And the final tally was 1,570,00 of military age (1-6).
God was displeased and set himself against Israel. When David repented, the LORD sent the prophet Gad to offer three choices of punishment: three years of famine, three months of destruction by David's foes, or three days of pestilence. David asked not to be delivered into the hand of man (7-13).
Of the two choices that were left, the LORD chose the third option and sent a plague which killed 70,000 men throughout the land. Then the LORD sent the angel that brought the plague to Jerusalem; but he told him to stop. "And the angel of the LORD stood by the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite." When David and the elders saw him with a drawn sword in his hand, they fell on their faces; and David asked that the sin might be on him and his father's house, not on the people (14-17).
And the Angel of the LORD commanded Gad to tell David to set up an altar on the threshingfloor of Ornan. And David went to the threshingfloor while Ornan was threshing wheat. When Ornan saw the angel, he and his four sons hid themselves; but Ornan came out of the threshingfloor when he saw David; and he bowed down to him. David asked to buy the threshingfloor; bur Ornan offered to give it to him together with the oxen, the threshing instruments, and the wheat for offerings. But David insisted on paying the full price. And David built an altar and made offerings; and the Angel sheathed his sword (18-27).
These sacrifices were made at the threshingfloor because the Tabernacle and the altar of burnt offering were in Gibeon which were too far away during this time of crisis while the angel had his sword drawn (28-30).
[ Sermons: Ian Hamilton. Various. ]
RESOURCES
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[ THEMATICALLY AND CHRONOLOGICALLY RELATED SCRIPTURES: 1 Chronicles 21: 2 Samuel 21:1-14; 2 Samuel 22; 2 Samuel 23; 2 Samuel 24; 1 Chronicles 27:23-24].
[1] 2 Samuel 19:23; 1 Kings 11:14; 1 Kings 11:25; Job 1; Job 2; Zechariah 3:1-2; Romans 1:18; Romans 1:24; Romans 1:26; Romans 1:28; 1 Samuel 26:19.
[2] 1 Chronicles 1:7; 1 Chronicles 2:2; Judges 20:1; 1 Samuel 3:20.
[3] Genesis 16:13.
[4] 2 Samuel 24:4-8.
[5] 1 Chronicles 27:24; 1 Chronicles 27:1-15.
[6] 2 Samuel 24:2; 2 Samuel 24:4; Numbers 1:47; Numbers 1:49; 1 Chronicles 27:24; 2 Samuel 24:4-8.
[8] 2 Samuel 24:10-11.
[9] 1 Chronicles 25:5; 1 Samuel 22:5; 1 Chronicles 29:29.
[12] Genesis 41:30; Leviticus 14:21; 2 Samuel 24:16; 2 Kings 19:35; Ezekiel 5:17; Ezekiel 14:13-19; Ezekiel 14:21; Leviticus 26:25-26.
[15] 2 Samuel 24:16; Exodus 12:23.
[16] 2 Samuel 24:17; Numbers 22:23; Isaiah 5:25; Isaiah 9:12; 2 Samuel 24:20; Numbers 22:31; Joshua 5:14; Judges 13:20.
[18] Daniel 8:16; Daniel 9:21-23; Zechariah 1:9; Zechariah 1:12; Judges 6:11; Judges 6:14; Judges 6:16; Genesis 18:1-2; Genesis 18:13; Genesis 32:24; Genesis 32:30.
[19] Matthew 5:18.
[20] 2 Samuel 24:15.
[21] 2 Samuel 24:20.
[22] Genesis 23:9.
[23] Genesis 23:11; Exodus 29:38; 1 Chronicles 20:3; Isaiah 41:15; 2 Samuel 24:22-23; Genesis 22:7.
[25] Genesis 23:16.
[26] Leviticus 9:24; 1 Kings 18:24; 1 Kings 18:38; 2 Chronicles 7:1.
[27] 2 Samuel 24:16-17; Daniel 7:15; 1 Chronicles 22:2-19.
[29] 1 Chronicles 16:39-40.
[30] 1 Chronicles 16:4; 1 Chronicles 16:37; 1 Chronicles 16:39; 1 Chronicles 13:3; 1 Chronicles 15:13; Genesis 28:17; Exodus 3:5; Joshua 5:15; Judges 6:21; Judges 6:26.
-- From Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers ]
[ CHRONOLOGY: GENERAL. Patriarchs (Traditional). Judges # 1. Judges # 2. Kings # 1. Kings # 2. Prophets # 1. Prophets # 2. NT # 1. NT # 2. NT # 3. ]
[ MAPS: Maps # 1. Maps # 2. Maps # 3. Maps # 4. Maps # 5. ]
[ COMMENTARIES, ETC: GENERAL: Bible Study Tools; Bible Hub: Study Light; Blue Letter Bible // PSALMS: Monergism: Precept Austin: The Treasury of David; John Gill; John Calvin - Volumes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
[ MUSIC: GENERAL: The Cyber Hymnal // PSALMS: Genevan Psalter (Instrumental). VARIOUS ARTISTS: Micha'el Ben David. Sons of Korah. Fernando Ortega. Janet Isaac Morrison. Music of the Bible Revealed - Suzanne Haik-Vantoura. Dr. David Erb. Gregorian Chants. ]
HARMONY OF THE LAW
HEBREW AND GREEK INTERLINEAR BIBLES
1 Chronicles Detailed Outline
1 Chronicles 21
Notes: In the Hebrew Bible 1 & 2 Chronicles are one Book. The author may have been Ezra.
2. The Kings: The Kings from the Tribes of Benjamin and Judah (1 Chronicles 10:1 - 2 Chronicles 36:14)
A. From the Tribe of Benjamin: Saul of the United Kingdom (1 Chronicles 10:1-14) - 1050 - 1010 B.C., Israel
[Note: Saul's son, Ishbosheth briefly reigned over 12 tribes, then 11 (1010-1003?) but he is not mentioned in Chronicles.]
B. From the Tribe of Judah (1 Chronicles 11:1 - 2 Chronicles 36:14)
1. David, First King of Judah and then all of Israel (1 Chronicles 11:1 - 29:30) - 1010 - 1003?; Judah; 1003? - 971, Israel
b. The Major Internal Project: Preparation for the Temple (1 Chronicles 21:1 - 29:30)
1 And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.
2 And David said to Joab and to the rulers of the people, Go, number Israel from Beersheba even to Dan; and bring the number of them to me, that I may know it.
3 And Joab answered, The LORD make his people an hundred times so many more as they be: but, my lord the king, are they not all my lord's servants? why then doth my lord require this thing? why will he be a cause of trespass to Israel?
4 Nevertheless the king's word prevailed against Joab. Wherefore Joab departed, and went throughout all Israel, and came to Jerusalem.
5 And Joab gave the sum of the number of the people unto David. And all they of Israel were a thousand thousand and an hundred thousand men that drew sword: and Judah was four hundred threescore and ten thousand men that drew sword.
6 But Levi and Benjamin counted he not among them: for the king's word was abominable to Joab.
7 And God was displeased with this thing; therefore he smote Israel.
8 And David said unto God, I have sinned greatly, because I have done this thing: but now, I beseech thee, do away the iniquity of thy servant; for I have done very foolishly [ I have done foolishly exceedingly].
9 And the LORD spake unto Gad, David's seer, saying,
10 Go and tell David, saying, Thus saith the LORD, I offer thee three things: choose thee one of them, that I may do it unto thee.
11 So Gad came to David, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Choose thee
12 Either three years' famine; or three months to be destroyed before thy foes, while that the sword of thine enemies overtaketh thee; or else three days the sword of the LORD, even the pestilence, in the land, and the angel of the LORD destroying throughout all the coasts of Israel. Now therefore advise thyself what word I shall bring again to him that sent me.
13 And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let me fall now into the hand of the LORD; for very great are his mercies: but let me not fall into the hand of man.
14 So the LORD sent pestilence upon Israel: and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men.
15 And God sent an angel unto Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he was destroying, the LORD beheld, and he repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed, It is enough, stay now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD stood by the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.
16 And David lifted up his eyes, and saw the angel of the LORD stand between the earth and the heaven, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders of Israel, who were clothed in sackcloth, fell upon their faces.
17 And David said unto God, Is it not I that commanded the people to be numbered? even I it is that have sinned and done evil indeed [doing evil I did evil]; but as for these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, O LORD my God, be on me, and on my father's house; but not on thy people, that they should be plagued.
18 Then the angel of the LORD commanded Gad to say to David, that David should go up, and set up an altar unto the LORD in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.
19 And David went up at the saying of Gad, which he spake in the name of the LORD.
20 And Ornan turned back, and saw the angel; and his four sons with him hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat.
21 And as David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David, and went out of the threshingfloor, and bowed himself to David with his face to the ground.
22 Then David said to Ornan, Grant me the place of this threshingfloor, that I may build an altar therein unto the LORD: thou shalt grant it me for the full price: that the plague may be stayed from the people.
23 And Ornan said unto David, Take it to thee, and let my lord the king do that which is good in his eyes: lo, I give thee the oxen also for burnt offerings, and the threshing instruments for wood, and the wheat for the meat offering; I give it all.
24 And king David said to Ornan, Nay; but I will verily buy [buying I will buy] it for the full price: for I will not take that which is thine for the LORD, nor offer burnt offerings without cost.
25 So David gave to Ornan for the place six hundred shekels of gold by weight.
26 And David built there an altar unto the LORD, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and called upon the LORD; and he answered him from heaven by fire upon the altar of burnt offering.
27 And the LORD commanded the angel; and he put up his sword again into the sheath thereof.
28 At that time when David saw that the LORD had answered him in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite, then he sacrificed there.
29 For the tabernacle of the LORD, which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of the burnt offering, were at that season in the high place at Gibeon.
30 But David could not go before it to enquire of God: for he was afraid because of the sword of the angel of the LORD.
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