10Go 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.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thine house; because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife. …
As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD: …
For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.
And he cried unto the man of God that came from Judah, saying, Thus saith the LORD, Forasmuch as thou hast disobeyed the mouth of the LORD, and hast not kept the commandment which the LORD thy God commanded thee, …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 7-17)David is here under the rod for numbering the people, that rod of correction which drives out the foolishness that is bound up in the heart, the foolishness of pride. Let us briefly observe, I. How he was corrected. If God’s dearest children do amiss, they must expect to smart for it. 1. He is given to understand that God is displeased; and that it is no small uneasiness to so good a man as David,…
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