He put up ... —It seems hardly fair to call this verse a “figurative or poetical expression for the cessation of …

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…