Matthew Poole and continuators on 2 Samuel 24:18
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2 Samuel24:18
18 ¶ And Gad came that day to David , and said unto him, Go up , rear an altar unto the LORD, in the threshing-floor of Araunah the Jebusite .
By command from God, v. 19. 1 Chron. 21. 18.
To Mount Moriah.
Which place God appointed for this work, partly, in Gracious condescension to, and compliance with David's fear of going to Gibeon, which is expressed 1 Chron. 21. 29, 30. partly, because this was the place where God by his Angel appeared in a threatning posture, where therefore it was meet he should be appeased: and partly, because God would hereby signify the translation of the Tabernacle from Gibeon hither, and the erection of the Temple here, 2 Chron. 3. 1.
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