1Chronicles:21:15-30
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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 tso #
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what have they done ?
let thine hand ,
I pray thee ,
O LORD my God ,
be on me ,
and on my fathers 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 mal #
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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 mal #
ak #;
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 Gib #
own #.
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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 .