1Chronicles:20-23
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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 .
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And David commanded to gather together the strangers that were in the land of Israel ;
and he set masons to hew wrought stones to build the house of God .
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And David prepared iron in abundance for the nails for the doors of the gates ,
and for the joinings ;
and brass in abundance without weight ;
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Also cedar trees in abundance :
for the Zidonians and they of Tyre brought much cedar wood to David .
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And David said ,
Solomon my son is young and tender ,
and the house that is to be builded for the LORD must be exceeding magnifical ,
of fame and of glory throughout all countries :
I will therefore now make preparation for it .
So David prepared abundantly before his death .
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Then he called for Solomon his son ,
and charged him to build an house for the LORD God of Israel .
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And David said to Solomon ,
My son ,
as for me ,
it was in my mind to build an house unto the name of the LORD my God :
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But the word of the LORD came to me ,
saying ,
Thou hast shed blood abundantly ,
and hast made great wars :
thou shalt not build an house unto my name ,
because thou hast shed much blood upon the earth in my sight .
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Behold ,
a son shall be born to thee ,
who shall be a man of rest ;
and I will give him rest from all his enemies round about :
for his name shall be Solomon ,
and I will give peace and quietness unto Israel in his days .
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He shall build an house for my name ;
and he shall be my son ,
and I will be his father ;
and I will establish the throne of his kingdom over Israel for ever .
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Now ,
my son ,
the LORD be with thee ;
and prosper thou ,
and build the house of the LORD thy God ,
as he hath said of thee .
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Only the LORD give thee wisdom and understanding ,
and give thee charge concerning Israel ,
that thou mayest keep the law of the LORD thy God .
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Then shalt thou prosper ,
if thou takest heed to fulfil the statutes and judgments which the LORD charged Moses with concerning Israel :
be strong ,
and of good courage ;
dread not ,
nor be dismayed .
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Now ,
behold ,
in my trouble I have prepared for the house of the LORD an hundred thousand talents of gold ,
and a thousand thousand talents of silver ;
and of brass and iron without weight ;
for it is in abundance :
timber also and stone have I prepared ;
and thou mayest add thereto .
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Moreover there are workmen with thee in abundance ,
hewers and workers of stone and timber ,
and all manner of cunning men for every manner of work .
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Of the gold ,
the silver ,
and the brass ,
and the iron ,
there is no number .
Arise therefore ,
and be doing ,
and the LORD be with thee .
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David also commanded all the princes of Israel to help Solomon his son ,
saying ,
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Is not the LORD your God with you ?
and hath he not given you rest on every side ?
for he hath given the inhabitants of the land into mine hand ;
and the land is subdued before the LORD ,
and before his people .
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Now set your heart and your soul to seek the LORD your God ;
arise therefore ,
and build ye the sanctuary of the LORD God ,
to bring the ark of the covenant of the LORD ,
and the holy vessels of God ,
into the house that is to be built to the name of the LORD .
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So when David was old and full of days ,
he made Solomon his son king over Israel .
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And he gathered together all the princes of Israel ,
with the priests and the Levites .
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Now the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years and upward :
and their number by their polls ,
man by man ,
was thirty and eight thousand .
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Of which ,
twenty and four thousand were to set forward the work of the house of the LORD ;
and six thousand were officers and judges :
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Moreover four thousand were porters ;
and four thousand praised the LORD with the instruments which I made ,
said David ,
to praise therewith .
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And David divided them into courses among the sons of Levi ,
namely ,
Gershon ,
Kohath ,
and Merari .
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Of the Gershonites were ,
Laadan ,
and Shimei .
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The sons of Laadan ;
the chief was Jehiel ,
and Zetham ,
and Joel ,
three .
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The sons of Shimei ;
Shelomith ,
and Haziel ,
and Haran ,
three .
These were the chief of the fathers of Laadan .
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And the sons of Shimei were ,
Jahath ,
Zina ,
and Jeush ,
and Beriah .
These four were the sons of Shimei .
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And Jahath was the chief ,
and Zizah the second :
but Jeush and Beriah had not many sons ;
therefore they were in one reckoning ,
according to their father '
s house .
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The sons of Kohath ;
Amram ,
Izhar ,
Hebron ,
and Uzziel ,
four .
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The sons of Amram ;
Aaron and Moses :
and Aaron was separated ,
that he should sanctify the most holy things ,
he and his sons for ever ,
to burn incense before the LORD ,
to minister unto him ,
and to bless in his name for ever .
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Now concerning Moses the man of God ,
his sons were named of the tribe of Levi .
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The sons of Moses were ,
Gershom ,
and Eliezer .
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Of the sons of Gershom ,
Shebuel was the chief .
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And the sons of Eliezer were ,
Rehabiah the chief .
And Eliezer had none other sons ;
but the sons of Rehabiah were very many .
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Of the sons of Izhar ;
Shelomith the chief .
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Of the sons of Hebron ;
Jeriah the first ,
Amariah the second ,
Jahaziel the third ,
and Jekameam the fourth .
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Of the sons of Uzziel ;
Michah the first ,
and Jesiah the second .
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The sons of Merari ;
Mahli ,
and Mushi .
The sons of Mahli ;
Eleazar ,
and Kish .
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And Eleazar died ,
and had no sons ,
but daughters :
and their brethren the sons of Kish took them .
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The sons of Mushi ;
Mahli ,
and Eder ,
and Jeremoth ,
three .
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These were the sons of Levi after the house of their fathers ;
even the chief of the fathers ,
as they were counted by number of names by their polls ,
that did the work for the service of the house of the LORD ,
from the age of twenty years and upward .
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For David said ,
The LORD God of Israel hath given rest unto his people ,
that they may dwell in Jerusalem for ever :
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And also unto the Levites ;
they shall no more carry the tabernacle ,
nor any vessels of it for the service thereof .
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For by the last words of David the Levites were numbered from twenty years old and above :
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Because their office was to wait on the sons of Aaron for the service of the house of the LORD ,
in the courts ,
and in the chambers ,
and in the purifying of all holy things ,
and the work of the service of the house of God ;
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Both for the shewbread ,
and for the fine flour for meat offering ,
and for the unleavened cakes ,
and for that which is baked in the pan ,
and for that which is fried ,
and for all manner of measure and size ;
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And to stand every morning to thank and praise the LORD ,
and likewise at even ;
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And to offer all burnt sacrifices unto the LORD in the sabbaths ,
in the new moons ,
and on the set feasts ,
by number ,
according to the order commanded unto them ,
continually before the LORD :
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And that they should keep the charge of the tabernacle of the congregation ,
and the charge of the holy place ,
and the charge of the sons of Aaron their brethren ,
in the service of the house of the LORD .
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Now these are the divisions of the sons of Aaron .
The sons of Aaron ;
Nadab ,
and Abihu ,
Eleazar ,
and Ithamar .
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