1 Chronicles 21
David Numbers Israel
and Judah |
2 Sam. 24.1-25 |
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And Satan stood up against Israel, and
provoked David to number Israel.
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And David said to Jo'ab and to the rulers
of the people, Go, number Israel from Beer-sheba even to Dan; and
bring the number of them to me, that I may know it.
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And Jo'ab answered, The LORD make his people a 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?
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Nevertheless the king's word prevailed
against Jo'ab. Wherefore Jo'ab departed, and went throughout all
Israel, and came to Jerusalem.
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And Jo'ab gave the sum of the number of
the people unto David. And all they of Israel were a thousand
thousand and a hundred thousand men that drew sword: and Judah was four hundred threescore and ten thousand men that drew
sword.
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But Levi and Benjamin counted he not
among them: for the king's word was abominable to Jo'ab.
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And God was displeased with this thing;
therefore he smote Israel.
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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.
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And the LORD spake
unto Gad, David's seer, saying,
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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.
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So Gad came to David, and said unto him,
Thus saith the LORD, Choose thee
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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.
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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.
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So the LORD sent
pestilence upon Israel: and there fell of Israel seventy thousand
men.
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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
Jeb'usite.
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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.
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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.
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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 Jeb'usite.
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And David went up at the saying of Gad,
which he spake in the name of the LORD.
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And Ornan turned back, and saw the angel;
and his four sons with him hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing
wheat.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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So David gave to Ornan for the place six
hundred shekels of gold by weight.
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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.
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And the LORD commanded the angel; and he put up his sword again into the sheath
thereof.
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The Site for the
Temple |
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At that time when David saw that the
LORD had answered him in the threshingfloor of
Ornan the Jeb'usite, then he sacrificed there.
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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.
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But David could not go before it to
inquire of God: for he was afraid because of the sword of the angel
of the LORD.
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