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And Satan
stood up against Israel, and provoked David to
number Israel.
02 And David said to Joab and to the rulers of
the people, Go, number Israel from Beersheba even
to Dan; and bring the number of them to me, that
I may know it.
03 And Joab answered, The Lord make his people an
hundred times so many more as they be: but, my
lord the king, are they not all my lord's
servants? why then doth my lord require this
thing? why will he be a cause of trespass to
Israel?
04 Nevertheless the king's word prevailed against
Joab. Wherefore Joab departed, and went
throughout all Israel, and came to Jerusalem.
05 And Joab gave the sum of the number of the
people unto David. And all they of Israel were a
thousand thousand and an hundred thousand men
that drew sword: and Judah was four hundred
threescore and ten thousand men that drew sword.
06 But Levi and Benjamin counted he not among
them: for the king's word was abominable to Joab.
07 And God was displeased with this thing;
therefore he smote Israel.
08 And David said unto God, I have sinned
greatly, because I have done this thing: but now,
I beseech thee, do away the iniquity of thy
servant; for I have done very foolishly.
09 And the Lord spake unto Gad, David's seer,
saying,
10 Go and tell David, saying, Thus saith the
Lord, I offer thee three things: choose thee one
of them, that I may do it unto thee.
11 So Gad came to David, and said unto him, Thus
saith the Lord, Choose thee
12 Either three years' famine; or three months to
be destroyed before thy foes, while that the
sword of thine enemies overtaketh thee; or else
three days the sword of the Lord, even the
pestilence, in the land, and the angel of the
Lord destroying throughout all the coasts of
Israel. Now therefore advise thyself what word I
shall bring again to him that sent me.
13 And David said unto Gad, I am in a great
strait: let me fall now into the hand of the
Lord; for very great are his mercies: but let me
not fall into the hand of man.
14 So the Lord sent pestilence upon Israel: and
there fell of Israel seventy thousand men.
15 And God sent an angel unto Jerusalem to
destroy it: and as he was destroying, the Lord
beheld, and he repented him of the evil, and said
to the angel that destroyed, It is enough, stay
now thine hand. And the angel of the Lord stood
by the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.
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16 And David lifted up his eyes, and saw the
angel of the Lord stand between the earth and the
heaven, having a drawn sword in his hand
stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the
elders of Israel, who were clothed in sackcloth,
fell upon their faces.
17 And David said unto God, Is it not I that
commanded the people to be numbered? even I it is
that have sinned and done evil indeed; but as for
these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand,
I pray thee, O Lord my God, be on me, and on my
father's house; but not on thy people, that they
should be plagued.
18 Then the angel of the Lord commanded Gad to
say to David, that David should go up, and set up
an altar unto the Lord in the threshingfloor of
Ornan the Jebusite.
19 And David went up at the saying of Gad, which
he spake in the name of the Lord.
20 And Ornan turned back, and saw the angel; and
his four sons with him hid themselves. Now Ornan
was threshing wheat.
21 And as David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and
saw David, and went out of the threshingfloor,
and bowed himself to David with his face to the
ground.
22 Then David said to Ornan, Grant me the place
of this threshingfloor, that I may build an altar
therein unto the Lord: thou shalt grant it me for
the full price: that the plague may be stayed
from the people.
23 And Ornan said unto David, Take it to thee,
and let my lord the king do that which is good in
his eyes: lo, I give thee the oxen also for burnt
offerings, and the threshing instruments for
wood, and the wheat for the meat offering; I give
it all.
24 And king David said to Ornan, Nay; but I will
verily buy it for the full price: for I will not
take that which is thine for the Lord, nor offer
burnt offerings without cost.
25 So David gave to Ornan for the place six
hundred shekels of gold by weight.
26 And David built there an altar unto the Lord,
and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings,
and called upon the Lord; and he answered him
from heaven by fire upon the altar of burnt
offering.
27 And the Lord commanded the angel; and he put
up his sword again into the sheath thereof.
28 At that time when David saw that the Lord had
answered him in the threshingfloor of Ornan the
Jebusite, then he sacrificed there.
29 For the tabernacle of the Lord, which Moses
made in the wilderness, and the altar of the
burnt offering, were at that season in the high
place at Gibeon.
30 But David could not go before it to enquire of
God: for he was afraid because of the sword of
the angel of the Lord.
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