1 Chronicles 21:15

Translations

Modern

Then God sent an angel to destroy Jerusalem, but as the angel was doing so, the LORD saw it and relented from the calamity, and He said to the angel who was destroying the people, “Enough! Withdraw your hand now!” At that time the angel of the LORD was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

Traditional

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.

Literal

And God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it, and as he was destroying, YHWH saw and relented of the disaster, and He said to the angel who was destroying, “Enough now! Restrain your hand.” And the angel of YHWH stood by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

Latin

Misit quoque angelum in Jerusalem ut percuteret eam: cumque percuteretur, vidit Dominus, et misertus est super magnitudine mali: et imperavit angelo qui percutiebat: Sufficit, jam cesset manus tua. Porro angelus Domini stabat juxta aream Ornan Jebusæi.

Original

Hebrew

English

Then God sent an angel to destroy Jerusalem, but as the angel was doing so, the LORD saw it and relented from the calamity, and He said to the angel who was destroying the people, “Enough! Withdraw your hand now!” At that time the angel of the LORD was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

Notes

1 Chronicles 21:1–22:1

This account of the census is similar to 2 Samuel 24:1–25 but focuses on different aspects. The Chronicler’s version sets the stage for dedicating the altar and preparing to build the temple (1 Chronicles 22).

Theme notes and profiles

David God or Satan?

Related verses

Genesis 6:6
And the LORD regretted that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.
Exodus 32:14
So the LORD relented from the calamity He had threatened to bring on His people.
Matthew 23:37–38
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling!
Mark 14:41
When Jesus returned the third time, He said, “Are you still sleeping and resting? That is enough! The hour has come. Look, the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.
Jeremiah 26:18
“Micah the Moreshite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah and told all the people of Judah that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble, and the temple mount a wooded ridge.’
1 Kings 19:4
…while he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness. He sat down under a broom tree and prayed that he might die. “I have had enough, LORD,” he said. “Take my life, for I am no better than my fathers.”
Jeremiah 18:7–10
At any time I might announce that a nation or kingdom will be uprooted, torn down, and destroyed.
2 Chronicles 3:1
Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORD had appeared to his father David. This was the place that David had prepared on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
2 Samuel 24:16
But when the angel stretched out his hand to destroy Jerusalem, the LORD relented from the calamity and said to the angel who was destroying the people, “Enough! Withdraw your hand now!” At that time the angel of the LORD was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.
Judges 10:16
So they put away the foreign gods from among them and served the LORD, and He could no longer bear the misery of Israel.
2 Samuel 24:18
And that day Gad came to David and said to him, “Go up and build an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.”
Exodus 9:28
Pray to the LORD, for there has been enough of God’s thunder and hail. I will let you go; you do not need to stay any longer.”

Parallels

2 Samuel 24:15–17

People

Jebusites: Canaanite tribe inhabiting Jerusalem before David's conquest Ornan: Jebusite, sold threshing floor to David

Places

Jerusalem: The capital of Israel, a holy city for three religions

Glossary

Angel of the Lord Araunah Chronicles, Books of First and Second David Gad (Person) Genealogy Moriah Ornan Zion

Topics

Angel (A Spirit): Appearances of To David, at the Threshing Floor of Araunah Angel (A Spirit): Execute Judgments Upon the Wicked Angel (Holy Trinity): One of the Holy Trinity: Called Angel of the Lord Anthropomorphisms: Miscellaneous Figures Araunah: Also Called Ornan God: Repentance Attributed To Miracles: Catalogue of The Plague in Israel Nation: Involved in Sins of Rulers Ornan: A Jebusite Repentance: Attributed to God Vision of David of the Angel of the Lord Beside the Threshing-Floor of Ornan

1 Chronicles 21:15

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