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1
Now again
the anger
of the LORD
burned
against
Israel
,
and it incited
David
against them to say,
"Go,
number
Israel
and Judah."
2
The king
said
to Joab
the commander
of the army
who
was with him, "Go about
now
through all
the tribes
of Israel,
from Dan
to Beersheba,
and register
the people,
that I may know
the number
of the people."
3
But Joab
said
to
the king
,
"Now may the LORD
your God
add
to the people
a hundred
times
as many as they are, while the eyes
of my lord
the king
still see;
but why
does my lord
the king
delight
in this
thing?"
4
Nevertheless, the king's
word
prevailed
against
Joab
and
against
the commanders
of the army
.
So
Joab
and
the commanders
of the army
went
out from the presence
of the king
to register
the people
of Israel.
5
They crossed
the Jordan
and camped
in Aroer,
on the right side
of the city
that is in the middle
of the valley
of Gad
and toward
Jazer.
6
Then they came
to Gilead
and to the land
of Tahtim-hodshi,
and they came
to Dan-jaan
and around
to Sidon,
7
and came
to the fortress
of Tyre
and to all
the cities
of the Hivites
and of the Canaanites,
and they went
out to the south
of Judah,
to Beersheba.
8
So when they had gone about
through the whole
land,
they came
to Jerusalem
at the end
of nine
months
and twenty
days.
9
And Joab
gave
the number
of the registration
of the people
to the king;
and there were in Israel
eight
hundred
thousand
valiant
men
who drew
the sword,
and the
men
of Judah
were five
hundred
thousand
men
.
10
Now David's
heart
troubled
him after
he had numbered
the people.
So David
said
to the LORD,
"I have sinned
greatly
in what
I have done.
But now,
O LORD,
please
take away
the iniquity
of Your servant,
for I have acted
very
foolishly."
11
When David
arose
in the morning,
the word
of the LORD
came
to the prophet
Gad,
David's
seer,
saying,
12
"Go
and speak
to David,
'Thus
the LORD
says,
"I am offering
you three things;
choose
for yourself one
of them, which I will do
to you."'"
13
So Gad
came
to David
and told
him, and said
to him, "Shall seven
years
of famine
come
to you
in your land?
Or
will you flee
three
months
before
your foes
while they pursue
you?
Or
shall there be
three
days'
pestilence
in your land?
Now
consider
and see
what
answer
I shall return
to Him who sent
me."
14
Then David
said
to Gad,
"I am in great
distress.
Let us now
fall
into the hand
of the LORD
for His mercies
are great,
but do not let me
fall
into the hand
of man."
15
So the LORD
sent
a pestilence
upon Israel
from the morning
until
the appointed
time,
and seventy
thousand
men
of the people
from Dan
to Beersheba
died.
16
When the angel
stretched
out his hand
toward Jerusalem
to destroy
it, the LORD
relented
from the calamity
and said
to the angel
who destroyed
the people,
"It is enough!
Now
relax
your hand!"
And the angel
of the LORD
was by the threshing floor
of Araunah
the Jebusite.
17
Then David
spoke
to the LORD
when he saw
the angel
who was striking down
the people,
and said,
"Behold,
it is I who have sinned,
and it is I who have done wrong;
but these
sheep,
what
have they done?
Please
let Your hand
be against me and against my father's
house."
18
So Gad
came
to David
that day
and said
to him, "Go
up, erect
an altar
to the LORD
on the threshing floor
of Araunah
the Jebusite."
19
David
went
up according to the word
of Gad,
just
as the LORD
had commanded.
20
Araunah
looked down
and saw
the king
and his servants
crossing over
toward
him; and
Araunah
went
out and bowed
his face
to the ground
before
the king
.
21
Then Araunah
said,
"Why
has my lord
the king
come
to his servant?"
And David
said,
"To buy
the threshing floor
from you, in order to build
an altar
to the LORD,
that the plague
may be held back
from the people."
22
Araunah
said
to David,
"Let my lord
the king
take
and offer
up what is good
in his sight.
Look,
the oxen
for the burnt offering,
the threshing sledges
and the yokes
of
the oxen
for the wood.
23
"Everything,
O king,
Araunah
gives
to the king."
And
Araunah
said
to the king,
"May the LORD
your God
accept
you."
24
However, the king
said
to Araunah,
"No,
but I will surely
buy
it from you for a price,
for I will not offer
burnt offerings
to the LORD
my God
which cost me nothing."
So David
bought
the threshing floor
and the oxen
for fifty
shekels
of silver.
25
David
built
there
an altar
to the LORD
and offered
burnt offerings
and peace offerings.
Thus the LORD
was moved by prayer
for the land,
and the plague
was held back
from Israel.
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