1Chronicles:21

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* And (note :)He tempted David , in setting before his eyes his excellency and glory , his power and victories , see ( 2Sa_24:1 ).(:note ) Satan stood up against Israel , and provoked David to number Israel . * And David said to Joab and to the rulers of the people , Go , number Israel from (note :)That is , from south to north .(:note ) Beersheba even to Dan ; and bring the number of them to me , that I may know [it ]. * 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 (note :)It was a thing indifferent and usual to number the people , but because he did it for ambitious reasons , as though his strength stood in his people , God punished him .(:note ) trespass to Israel ? * Neuerthelesse the Kings word preuailed against Ioab ; Ioab departed and went thorowe all Israel , and returned to Ierusalem . * And Joab gave the sum of the number of the people unto David . And all [they of ] Israel were (note :)Joab partly for grief and partly through negligence gathered not the whole sum as it is here declared .(:note ) a thousand thousand and an hundred thousand men that drew sword : and Judah [was ] In Samuel 30 ,000 more are mentioned , which was either by joining to them some of the Benjamites who were mixed with Judah , or as the Hebrews write , here the chief and princes are left out . four hundred threescore and ten thousand men that drew sword . * But the Leuites and Beniamin counted he not among them : for the Kings worde was abominable to Ioab . * And God was displeased with this thing : therefore he smote Israel . * Then Dauid saide vnto God , I haue sinned greatly , because I haue done this thing : but now , I beseech thee , remooue the iniquitie of thy seruant : for I haue done very foolishly . * And the Lorde spake vnto Gad Dauids Seer , saying , * Goe and tell Dauid , saying , Thus saith the Lorde , I offer thee three thinges : choose thee one of them , that I may doe it vnto thee . * So Gad came to Dauid , and sayde vnto him , Thus saith the Lord , Take to thee * Either three yeeres famine , or three moneths to be destroyed before thine aduersaries , and the sworde of thine enemies to take thee , or els the sworde of the Lorde and pestilence in the lande three dayes , that the Angel of the Lorde may destroy throughout all the coastes of Israel : nowe therefore aduise thee , what word I shal bring againe to him that sent me . * And Dauid said vnto Gad , I am in a wonderfull strait . Let me nowe fall into the hande of the Lorde : for his mercies are exceeding great , and let me not fall into the hande of man . * So the Lord sent a pestilence in Israel , and there fell of Israel seuentie thousande men . * And God sent an angel unto Jerusalem to destroy it : and (note :)Read ( 2Sa_24:16 ).(:note ) as he was destroying , the LORD beheld , and he When God draws back his plagues , he seems to repent , read ( Gen_6:6 ). 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 . * And Dauid lift vp his eyes , and sawe the Angel of the Lorde stande betweene the earth and the heauen with his sworde drawen in his hand , and stretched out towarde Ierusalem . Then Dauid and the Elders of Israel , which were clothed in sacke , fell vpon their faces . * 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 (note :)Thus he both shows a true repentance and a fatherly care toward his people , who desire God to spare them , and to punish him and his .(:note ) thy people , that they should be plagued . * Then the Angel of the Lord commanded Gad to say to Dauid , that Dauid should goe vp , and set vp an altar vnto the Lord in the thresshing floore of Ornan the Iebusite . * So Dauid went vp according to the saying of Gad , which he had spoken in the Name of the Lorde . * And Ornan turned back , and saw the angel ; and his four sons with him (note :)If man hides himself at the sight of an angel who is a creature , how much more as a sinner able to appear before the face of God ?(:note ) hid themselves . Now Ornan was threshing wheat . * And as Dauid came to Ornan , Ornan looked and sawe Dauid , and went out of the thresshing floore , and bowed himselfe to Dauid with his face to the grounde . * Then David said to Ornan , Grant me the place of [this ] threshingfloor , that I may build an (note :)This he did by the command of God , ( 1Ch_21:18 ), or else it would have been abominable , unless he had either God 's word , or revelation .(:note ) altar therein unto the LORD : thou shalt grant it me for the full price : that the plague may be stayed from the people . * Then Ornan saide vnto Dauid , Take it to thee , and let my lord the King do that which seemeth him good : loe , I giue thee bullockes for burnt offrings , and thresshing instruments for wood , and wheat for meate offring , I giue it all . * And king David said to Ornan , Nay ; but I will verily buy it for the full (note :)That is , as much as it is worth : for having enough of his own , and yet to have taken of another man 's goods to offer to the Lord would had been theft and not acceptable to God .(:note ) price : for I will not take [that ] which [is ] thine for the LORD , nor offer burnt offerings without cost . * So David gave to Ornan for the place (note :)Read ( 2Sa_24:24 ).(:note ) six hundred shekels of gold by weight . * And David built there an altar unto the LORD , and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings , and called upon the LORD ; and he (note :)God declared that he heard his request , in that he sent down fire from heaven for they could use no fire in sacrifice but that which was reserved still upon the altar , ( Lev_6:13 ) and came down from heaven , ( Lev_9:24 ) as appeared by the punishment of Nadab and Abihu , ( Lev_10:1 ).(:note ) answered him from heaven by fire upon the altar of burnt offering . * And when the Lorde had spoken to the Angel , he put vp his sworde againe into his sheath . * At that time when Dauid sawe that the Lorde had heard him in the thresshing floore of Ornan the Iebusite , then he sacrificed there . * (But the Tabernacle of the Lorde which Moses had made in the wildernesse , and the altar of burnt offring were at that season in the hie place at Gibeon . * And Dauid could not go before it to aske counsel at God : for he was afraide of the sworde of the Angel of the Lorde .)

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