Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
stood by the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite--Ornan was probably his Hebrew or Jewish, Araunah his Jebusite or Canaanitish, name. Whether he was the old king of Jebus, as that title is given to him (2 Samuel 24:23), or not, he had been converted to the worship of the true God, and was possessed both of property and influence.
So the Lord . . . sent an angel unto Jerusalem to destroy it--The infliction only of the pestilence is here noticed, without any account of its duration or its ravages, while a minute description is given of the visible appearance and menacing attitude of the destroying angel.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Jeremiah 15:6
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