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The angel appeared in the shape of a man with a sword in his hand, 1Ch_21:16, to convince them more fully that this was no natural nor common plague, but inflicted immediately by the hand of God.
Upon Jerusalem; which he had begun to smite, and was proceeding to make a far greater slaughter.
The Lord repented him of the evil, i.e. he moderated, and in part recalled, his sentence of the plague’s continuance for three whole days, and this he did upon David’s prayers and sacrifices, as appears from 2Sa_24:25, though these be mentioned afterward.
Araunah, called also Araniah in the Hebrew of 2Sa_24:18, and Ornan, 1Ch_21:22; such changes in the pronunciation of the names being usual in Scripture.