1Chronicles:20-21
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And it came to pass ,
that after the year was expired ,
at the time that kings go out to battle ,
Joab led forth the power of the army ,
and wasted the country of the children of Ammon ,
and came and besieged Rabbah .
But David tarried at Jerusalem .
And Joab smote Rabbah ,
and destroyed it .
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And David took the crown of their king from off his head ,
and found it to weigh a talent of gold ,
and there were precious stones in it ;
and it was set upon David '
s head :
and he brought also exceeding much spoil out of the city .
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And he brought out the people that were in it ,
and cut them with saws ,
and with harrows of iron ,
and with axes .
Even so dealt David with all the cities of the children of Ammon .
And David and all the people returned to Jerusalem .
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And it came to pass after this ,
that there arose war at Gezer with the Philistines ;
at which time Sibbechai the Hushathite slew Sippai ,
that was of the children of the giant :
and they were subdued .
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And there was war again with the Philistines ;
and Elhanan the son of Jair slew Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite ,
whose spear staff was like a weaver '
s beam .
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And yet again there was war at Gath ,
where was a man of great stature ,
whose fingers and toes were four and twenty ,
six on each hand ,
and six on each foot :
and he also was the son of the giant .
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But when he defied Israel ,
Jonathan the son of Shimea David '
s brother slew him .
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These were born unto the giant in Gath ;
and they fell by the hand of David ,
and by the hand of his servants .
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And Satan stood up against Israel ,
and provoked David to number Israel .
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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 .
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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 ?
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Nevertheless the king '
s word prevailed against Joab .
Wherefore Joab departed ,
and went throughout all Israel ,
and came to Jerusalem .
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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 .
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But Levi and Benjamin counted he not among them :
for the king '
s word was abominable to Joab .
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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 Jebusite .
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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 Jebusite .
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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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At that time when David saw that the LORD had answered him in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite ,
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 enquire of God :
for he was afraid because of the sword of the angel of the LORD .
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Then David said ,
This is the house of the LORD God ,
and this is the altar of the burnt offering for Israel .