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Chapter 24
- 24:1
- And again the anger of the LORD
was kindled against Israel, and he moved David against them to say,
Go, number Israel and Judah.
- 24:2
- For the king said to Joab the
captain of the host, which was with him, Go now through all the tribes
of Israel, from Dan even to Beersheba, and number ye the people, that
I may know the number of the people.
- 24:3
- And Joab said unto the king, Now
the LORD thy God add unto the people, how many soever they be, an
hundredfold, and that the eyes of my lord the king may see it: but why
doth my lord the king delight in this thing?
- 24:4
- Notwithstanding the king's word
prevailed against Joab, and against the captains of the host. And Joab
and the captains of the host went out from the presence of the king,
to number the people of Israel.
- 24:5
- And they passed over Jordan, and
pitched in Aroer, on the right side of the city that lieth in the
midst of the river of Gad, and toward Jazer:
- 24:6
- Then they came to Gilead, and to
the land of Tahtimhodshi; and they came to Danjaan, and about to Zidon,
- 24:7
- And came to the strong hold of
Tyre, and to all the cities of the Hivites, and of the Canaanites: and
they went out to the south of Judah, even to Beersheba.
- 24:8
- So when they had gone through all
the land, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty
days.
- 24:9
- And Joab gave up the sum of the
number of the people unto the king: and there were in Israel eight
hundred thousand valiant men that drew the sword; and the men of Judah
were five hundred thousand men.
- 24:10
- And David's heart smote him after
that he had numbered the people. And David said unto the LORD, I have
sinned greatly in that I have done: and now, I beseech thee, O LORD,
take away the iniquity of thy servant; for I have done very foolishly.
- 24:11
- For when David was up in the
morning, the word of the LORD came unto the prophet Gad, David's seer,
saying,
- 24:12
- Go and say unto David, Thus saith
the LORD, I offer thee three things; choose thee one of them, that I
may do it unto thee.
- 24:13
- So Gad came to David, and told
him, and said unto him, Shall seven years of famine come unto thee in
thy land? or wilt thou flee three months before thine enemies, while
they pursue thee? or that there be three days' pestilence in thy land?
now advise, and see what answer I shall return to him that sent me.
- 24:14
- And David said unto Gad, I am in a
great strait: let us fall now into the hand of the LORD; for his
mercies are great: and let me not fall into the hand of man.
- 24:15
- So the LORD sent a pestilence upon
Israel from the morning even to the time appointed: and there died of
the people from Dan even to Beersheba seventy thousand men.
- 24:16
- And when the angel stretched out
his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD repented him of the
evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough:
stay now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD was by the
threshingplace of Araunah the Jebusite.
- 24:17
- And David spake unto the LORD when
he saw the angel that smote the people, and said, Lo, I have sinned,
and I have done wickedly: but these sheep, what have they done? let
thine hand, I pray thee, be against me, and against my father's house.
- 24:18
- And Gad came that day to David,
and said unto him, Go up, rear an altar unto the LORD in the
threshingfloor of Araunah the Jebusite.
- 24:19
- And David, according to the saying
of Gad, went up as the LORD commanded.
- 24:20
- And Araunah looked, and saw the
king and his servants coming on toward him: and Araunah went out, and
bowed himself before the king on his face upon the ground.
- 24:21
- And Araunah said, Wherefore is my
lord the king come to his servant? And David said, To buy the
threshingfloor of thee, to build an altar unto the LORD, that the
plague may be stayed from the people.
- 24:22
- And Araunah said unto David, Let
my lord the king take and offer up what seemeth good unto him: behold,
here be oxen for burnt sacrifice, and threshing instruments and other
instruments of the oxen for wood.
- 24:23
- All these things did Araunah, as a
king, give unto the king. And Araunah said unto the king, The LORD thy
God accept thee.
- 24:24
- And the king said unto Araunah,
Nay; but I will surely buy it of thee at a price: neither will I offer
burnt offerings unto the LORD my God of that which doth cost me
nothing. So David bought the threshingfloor and the oxen for fifty
shekels of silver.
- 24:25
- And David built there an altar
unto the LORD, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. So the
LORD was intreated for the land, and the plague was stayed from
Israel.
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