1 Chronicles 21

^{1 !} Dauid causeth the people to be nombred.

^{1 a} He tempted Dauid in setting before his eyes his excellencie & glorie, his power & victories, read {2 Sam. 24,1}

^{2 b} That is, from Southe to North.

^{3 c} It was a thing indifferent & vsual to nomber the people, but because he did it of an ambitious minde, as thogh his strength stode in his people, God punished him.

^{5 e} In Samuel is mention of thirtie thousand more: which was ether by joyning to them some of the Benjamites, which were mixed with Judah, or as the Ebrewes write, here the chief & princes are left out.

^{5 d} Joab partely for grief and partly through neglience gathered not the whole sumeas it is here declared.

^{9 /} Or, Prophet.

^{12 /} Or, smite thee.

^{14 !} And there dye seuentie thousand men of the pestilence.

^{15 f} Read {2 Sam. 24, 16}

^{15 g} When God draweth backe his plagues, he semeth to repent, read {Gen. 6,6].

^{15 /} Or, Araunah.

^{17 h} Thus he bothe sheweth a true repentance and a fatherlie care toward his people, which desireth God to spare them and to punish him and his.

^{20 i} If man hide him selfe at the sight of an Angel which is a creature, how much lesse is a sinner able to appeare before the face of God?

^{22 k} Thus he did by the commandment of God as {vers 18} for els it had bene abominable except he had ether Gods worde, or reuelacion.

^{24 l} That is, as muche as it is worthe: for hauing ynough of his owne & yet to haue taken of another mans goods to offer vnto the Lord, it had bene theft and not acceptable to God.

^{25 m} Read {2 Sam. 24,24]

^{26 n} God declared that he heard his request in that he sent downe fire from heauen: for els thei might vse no fire in sacrifice, but of that which was reserued stil vpon the altar, {Leui. 6,13} & came down from heauen, {Leui. 9,24}, as appeared by the punishement of Nadab and Abihu, {Leu. 10,1}