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* And Satan stood up against Israel and moved David to number Israel . * And David said to Joab and to the rulers of the people , Go , number Israel from Beersheba even to Dan ; and bring to me , and I will know their number . * And Joab said , May Jehovah add to His people as if they were a hundred times ; my lord , O king , are they not all of them servants to my lord ? Why does my lord desire this ? Why will he be a cause of guilt to Israel ? * But the word of the king was heavy against Joab ; and Joab went out and went up and down all Israel , and came to Jerusalem . * And Joab gave the tally of the census of the people to David ; and all Israel was a million and one hundred thousand men drawing sword ; and Judah was four hundred and seventy thousand drawing sword . * And Levi and Benjamin he did not number among them , for the word of the king was loathsome to Joab . * And it was evil in the eyes of God as to this thing , and He struck Israel . * And David said to God , I have sinned exceedingly in that I have done this thing ; and now , I pray You to cause the iniquity of Your servant to pass away , for I have acted very foolishly . * And Jehovah spoke to Gad , the seer of David , saying , * Go ; and you shall speak to David , saying , So says Jehovah , I am extending to you three things ; choose one of these for yourself , that I may do to you . * And Gad came to David and said to him , So says Jehovah , Choose for yourself : * either for three years of famine , or three months to be wasted before your adversaries , even to be overtaken by the sword of your enemies ; or the sword of Jehovah three days , even pestilence in the land , and the angel of Jehovah destroying throughout all the borders of Israel . And now , consider what answer I shall return to Him that sent me . * And David said to Gad , I am in a great distress ; now let me fall into the hand of Jehovah , for His mercies are very many ; but do not let me fall into the hand of man . * And Jehovah sent a pestilence into Israel , and seventy thousand men of Israel fell . * And God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it . And as he was destroying , Jehovah saw , and repented as to the evil , and said to the destroying angel , Enough ! Now stay your hand . And the angel of Jehovah stood by the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite . * And David lifted up his eyes and saw the angel of Jehovah standing between the earth and the heavens , and his sword drawn in his hand , stretched out over Jerusalem ; and David and the elders fell on their faces , covered with sackcloth . * And David said to God , Was it not I , I who said to number the people ? Yea , it was I who sinned , and truly have done evil ; and these , the flock , what have they done ? O Jehovah , my God , I pray You , let Your hand be on me and on my father 's house , and not on Your people , to be plagued . * And the angel of Jehovah spoke to Gad , saying to David , Surely David shall go up to raise an altar to Jehovah in the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite . * And David went up by the word of Gad , that which he spoke in the name of Jehovah . * And Ornan turned back , and saw the angel ; and his four sons with him hid themselves ; and Ornan was threshing wheat . * And as David came to Ornan , Ornan looked and saw David , and went out of the threshing-floor and bowed down to David , with his face to the ground . * And David said to Ornan , Give me the site of the threshingfloor , and I will build an altar to Jehovah in it ; for full silver give it to me , and the plague will be restrained from the people . * And Ornan said to David , Take it for yourself , and my lord the king do that which is good in his eyes ; see , I have given the oxen for burnt offerings , and the threshing instruments for wood , and the wheat for the food offering ; I give it all . * And king David said to Ornan , No , for I will surely buy it for full silver , for I will not lift up what is yours to Jehovah , so as to offer a burnt offering without cost . * And David gave to Ornan six hundred shekels of gold in weight for the place . * And David built an altar there to Jehovah , and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings , and called to Jehovah ; and He answered him with fire from the heavens on the altar of the burnt offering . * And Jehovah commanded the angel , and he returned his sword to its sheath . * At that time , when David saw that Jehovah had answered him in the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite , then he sacrificed there . * And the tabernacle of Jehovah that Moses had made in the wilderness , and the altar of the burnt offering , were at that time in the high place in Gibeon ; * and David was not able to go before it to seek God , for he was terrified from the face of the angel of Jehovah .

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