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Then
Satan rose
up against Israel and incited
David to take
a
census
of
Israel.
And
Satan stood
up against Israel ,
and provoked
David to number
Israel.
So
David said to Joab and the commanders
of the troops
, “
Go and
count
the
Israelites
from Beersheba to Dan and bring me a
report
, so
that I may know their
number
. ”
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
.
But
Joab replied
, “May
the LORD multiply
His troops
a
hundred times over.
My lord the king, are they not all servants
of
my lord
? Why does
my lord want
to
do
this? Why should
he bring
guilt
on
Israel? ”
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?
Nevertheless ,
the king’s
word prevailed against Joab. So
Joab departed and traveled
throughout Israel, and then
he
returned
to Jerusalem.
Nevertheless the king's
word prevailed against Joab. Wherefore
Joab departed ,
and went
throughout all
Israel, and came
to Jerusalem.
And Joab reported
to
David
the total
number of the troops
. In
all Israel there
were 1,100,000
men who
drew the
sword ,
including
470,000
in
Judah.
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
.
But Joab
did
not
include
Levi and Benjamin in
the
count,
because
the king’s
command
was detestable
to him
.
But Levi and Benjamin counted
he
not
among
them:
for
the king's
word
was abominable
to Joab
.
This
command
was
also
evil
in
the
sight
of
God; so
He struck
Israel.
And
God was
displeased
with
this
thing
; therefore
he smote
Israel.
Then
David said to
God, “
I have sinned greatly because I have done this thing .
Now I beg
You
to
take
away the iniquity of Your
servant ,
for I have acted
very foolishly. ”
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.
And the LORD instructed
Gad, David’s
seer,
And the LORD spake
unto
Gad, David's
seer, saying,
“
Go and tell David that
this
is
what
the LORD says:
‘
I am
offering
you
three options.
Choose one of them, and
I will
carry
it out
against
you
. ’”
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
.
So Gad went
and
said
to David, “This
is
what
the LORD says:
‘You
must
choose
So Gad came
to David, and
said
unto
him,
Thus
saith
the LORD ,
Choose thee
between
three years of
famine ,
three months of
being
swept
away
before your
enemies
and
overtaken
by
their
swords
, or three days of
the sword of the LORD —days
of
plague
upon
the land, with
the angel of the LORD ravaging
every
part
of Israel. ’
Now then,
decide
how
I should
reply
to Him who
sent me. ”
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.
David answered
Gad, “
I am deeply
distressed.
Please,
let me fall into the hand of the LORD ,
for His
mercies
are
very great ;
but do
not
let me fall into the hands
of men
. ”
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
.
So the LORD sent a
plague
upon Israel ,
and seventy thousand men of
Israel
fell
dead
.
So the LORD sent pestilence
upon Israel :
and there
fell
of
Israel
seventy thousand men.
Then
God sent an angel to destroy Jerusalem,
but
as the
angel
was doing
so
, the LORD saw
it
and relented
from
the calamity
, and He
said to the angel who
was
destroying
the
people
, “
Enough !
Withdraw
your
hand
now !”
At
that
time
the angel of the LORD was
standing
by the threshing
floor
of Ornan the Jebusite.
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.
When
David lifted up his eyes and saw the angel of the LORD standing
between heaven
and
earth, with
a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem ,
David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell facedown
.
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
.
And David said to
God, “Was
it not I who
gave
the
order
to
count
the people? I am
the
one
who
has
sinned and acted
wickedly.
But these sheep, what have they done? O LORD my God, please
let
Your
hand
fall
upon
me and my father’s
house ,
but do
not let
this
plague
remain
upon
Your
people. ”
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
.
Then the angel of the LORD ordered
Gad to tell
David
to go up and build
an altar to
the LORD on
the threshing
floor
of Ornan the Jebusite.
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.
So
David went up at the word
that
Gad had
spoken
in the name of the LORD.
And
David went up at the saying
of
Gad ,
which
he
spake
in the name of the LORD.
Now
Ornan was
threshing
wheat
when
he
turned and saw the angel; and his four sons who
were
with him hid themselves.
And
Ornan turned back,
and saw the angel; and his four sons with him hid themselves. Now
Ornan
was
threshing
wheat.
David came to Ornan, and
when
Ornan looked out
and saw David, he
left
the threshing
floor
and bowed facedown
before
David.
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
.
Then David said to Ornan, “
Grant me the site
of this threshing
floor
, that I may build an altar to
the LORD .
Sell
it to
me for the full price ,
so
that the plague upon
the
people
may be halted
. ”
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
.
Ornan said to
David, “
My lord the king may
take
whatever
seems
good .
Look
, I will
give the oxen for the
burnt offerings, the threshing sledges
for the
wood, and the wheat for the grain
offering —
I will
give it all. ”
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.
“No,”
replied
King David, “
I insist
on
paying
the full price ,
for I will not take for the LORD what
belongs
to
you
, nor will
I
offer burnt offerings that
cost me
nothing
. ”
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.
So David paid
Ornan six hundred shekels of gold for
the
site
.
So David gave
to
Ornan for
the
place
six hundred shekels of gold by
weight
.
And there
he
built an altar to
the LORD and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings .
He
called upon the LORD ,
who
answered him with
fire
from heaven on
the altar of burnt offering.
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.
Then
the LORD spoke
to
the angel ,
who
put his sword back
into its
sheath.
And
the LORD commanded
the angel ;
and
he
put up
his sword again
into the
sheath thereof
.
At that time ,
when David saw that the LORD had answered him at
the threshing
floor
of Ornan the Jebusite, he offered
sacrifices
there.
At that time when David saw that the LORD had answered him in
the threshingfloor
of Ornan the Jebusite, then
he sacrificed
there.
For the tabernacle of the LORD that
Moses had
made in the wilderness and the altar of burnt offering were presently
at the high place in
Gibeon ,
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 .
but David could not go before it to inquire
of God ,
because
he was afraid of the sword of the angel of the LORD.
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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