Matthew Poole and continuators on 2 Samuel 24:16

16 And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD repented him of the evil , and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough: stay now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD was by the threshing-place of Araunah the Jebusite.

Which appeared in the shape of a Man with a Sword in his hand, 1 Chron. 21. 16. to convince them more fully that this was no natural nor common Plague, but inflicted immediately by the hand of God.

Which he had begun to smite, and was proceeding to make a far greater slaughter.

i. e. He moderated, and in part recalled his Sentence of the Plagues continuance for three whole days, and this he did upon David's Prayers and Sacrifices, as appears from v. 25. though these be mentioned afterward.

Called also Araunah in the Hebrew of v. 18. and Ornan, 1 Chron. 21. 22. such changes in the pronunciation of the names being usual in Scripture.

Marginal references: [illegible: 1+ letters] Sam. 15. 11.; [illegible: 1+ letters] Chron. 21. 1[illegible: 1+ letters], 20, 21.