Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible
1 Chronicles Ch.21 / 29 Ch.s
1CH:21
* David's numbering the people.
- No mention is made in this book of David's sin in the matter
of Uriah, neither of the troubles that followed it: they had no
needful connexion with the subjects here noted. But David's sin,
in numbering the people, is related: in the atonement made for
that sin, there was notice of the place on which the temple
should be built. The command to David to build an altar, was a
blessed token of reconciliation. God testified his acceptance of
David's offerings on this altar. Thus Christ was made sin, and a
curse for us; it pleased the Lord to bruise him, that through
him, God might be to us, not a consuming Fire, but a reconciled
God. It is good to continue attendance on those ordinances in
which we have experienced the tokens of God's presence, and have
found that he is with us of a truth. Here God graciously met me,
therefore I will still expect to meet him.