It has been observed that angels are presented as intermediaries between God and the prophets only in later books. This is undoubtedly true, and it…

Then the angel of the Lord commanded Gad to say to David. —Rather, Now the angel had told Gad to tell David. In Samuel, t…

Then the angel of the LORD commanded Gad to say to David, that David should go up, and set up an altar to the LORD in the threshing floor of Or…

(See Gill on 1 Chronicles 21:1).

No mention is made in this book of David's sin in the matter of Uriah, nor of the troubles that followed it, for they had no necessary connection w…