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God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it. As he was about to destroy, the LORD saw, and he relented of the disaster, and said to the destroying angel, “It is enough. Now withdraw your hand.” the LORD’s angel was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
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ExplanationCommentary
Verse 15. Took. Hebrew “repented of evil,” taking pity of unhappy victims.—Ornan, or Areuna. Challoner.—He had been king of the Jebusites before David took Jerusalem. Mariana. Tirinus.
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