Passage Research
1 Chronicles 21 — Sermon Preparation
David's census brings a plague upon Israel; he builds an altar at the threshing floor of Ornan, and the plague is stopped through his sacrifice. Below is a research summary for 1 Chronicles 21, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.
- 30
- verses
- 492 / 171
- Hebrew words / lemmas
- 3
- classic sermon excerpts
- 3
- preachers & commentators
1 Chronicles 21 in the Hebrew
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Hebrew | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | Glosses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| דָּוִד | Dâvid | H1732 | 24 | David |
| אׇרְנָן | ʼOrnân | H771 | 11 | Ornan |
| מַלְאָךְ | malʼâk | H4397 | 9 | messenger, angel |
| חֶרֶב | chereb | H2719 | 7 | drought, cutting |
| יוֹאָב | Yôwʼâb | H3097 | 6 | Joab |
| גֹּרֶן | gôren | H1637 | 5 | threshing-floor, open area |
| גָּד | Gâd | H1410 | 5 | Gad |
How preachers through history handled this text
3 public-domain excerpts on 1 Chronicles 21, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“As this rehearsal makes no mention of David's sin in the matter of Uriah, so neither of the troubles of his family that followed upon it; not a word of Absalom's rebellion, or Sheba's. But David's sin, in numbering the people, is here related, because, in the atonement made for that sin, an intimation was given of the spot of ground on which the temple should be built. Here is, I. David's sin, in forcing Joab to number the people, ver. 1-6. II. David's sorrow for what he had done, as soon as he perceived the sinfulness of it, ver. 7, 8. III. …”
— Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible, Vol. 2 (Joshua to Esther), on 1 Chronicles 21:1–30 (Public Domain)
Places in the text
Based on ancient-geography data
- Jerusalem— 1 Chr 21:15
- Beersheba 1— 1 Chr 21:2
- Dan— 1 Chr 21:2
- Gibeon— 1 Chr 21:29
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