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* And Satan stood up against Israel , and moved David to number Israel . * And David said to Joab and to the princes of the people , Go , number Israel from Beer-sheba even to Dan ; and bring me word , that I may know the sum of them . * And Joab said , Yahweh make his people a hundred times as many as they are : but , my lord the king , are they not all my lord 's slaves ? Why does my lord require this thing ? Why will he be a cause of guilt to Israel ? * Nevertheless the king 's word prevailed against Joab . Therefore Joab departed , and went throughout all Israel , and came to Jerusalem . * And Joab gave up the sum of the numbering of the people to David . And all those of Israel were a thousand thousand and a hundred thousand men who drew sword : and Judah was 470 ,000 men who drew sword . * But Levi and Benjamin he did not count among them ; for the king 's word was disgusting to Joab . * And God was displeased with this thing ; therefore he struck Israel . * And David said to God , I have sinned greatly , in that I have done this thing : but now , put away , I urge you , the iniquity of your slave ; for I have done very foolishly . * And Yahweh spoke to Gad , David 's seer , saying , * Go and speak to David , saying , Thus says Yahweh , I offer you three things : choose for yourself one of them , that I may do it to you . * So Gad came to David , and said to him , Thus says Yahweh , Take which you will : * either three years of famine ; or three months to be consumed before your foes , while the sword of your enemies overtakes you ; or three days the sword of Yahweh , even pestilence in the land , and the angel of Yahweh destroying throughout all the borders of Israel . Now therefore consider what answer I will return to him who sent me . * And David said to Gad , I am in a great strait : let me fall , I pray , into the hand of Yahweh ; for very great are his mercies : and don 't let me fall into the hand of man . * So Yahweh sent a pestilence on Israel ; and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men . * And God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it : and as he was about to destroy , Yahweh looked , and he repented of the evil , and said to the destroying angel , It is enough ; now let down your hand . And the angel of Yahweh was standing by the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite . * And David lifted up his eyes , and saw the angel of Yahweh standing between earth and heaven , having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem . Then David and the elders , clothed in sackcloth , fell on their faces . * And David said to God , Is it not I who commanded the people to be numbered ? It is I who have sinned and done very wickedly ; but these sheep , what have they done ? Let your hand , I pray you , O Yahweh my God , be against me , and against my father 's house ; but not against your people , that they should be plagued . * Then the angel of Yahweh commanded Gad to say to David , that David should go up , and rear an altar to Yahweh in the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite . * And David went up at the saying of Gad , which he spoke in the name of Yahweh . * And Ornan turned back , and saw the angel ; and his four sons who were with him hid themselves . Now Ornan was threshing wheat . * And as David came to Ornan , Ornan looked and saw David , and went out of the threshing-floor , and bowed himself to David with his face to the ground . * Then David said to Ornan , Give me the place of this threshing-floor , that I may build on it an altar to Yahweh : for the full price you will give it to me , that the plague may be stopped from the people . * And Ornan said to David , Take it for yourself , and let my lord the king do that which is good in his eyes : look , I give [you ] the oxen for burnt-offerings , and the threshing instruments for wood , and the wheat for the meal-offering ; I give it all . * And King David said to Ornan , No ; but I will truly buy it for the full price : for I will not take that which is yours for Yahweh , nor offer a burnt-offering without cost . * So David gave to Ornan for the place six hundred shekels of gold by weight . * And David built there an altar to Yahweh , and offered burnt-offerings and peace-offerings , and called on Yahweh ; and he answered him from heaven by fire on the altar of burnt-offering . * And Yahweh commanded the angel ; and he put up his sword again into its sheath . * At that time , when David saw that Yahweh had answered him in the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite , then he sacrificed there . * For the tabernacle of Yahweh , which Moses made in the wilderness , and the altar of burnt-offering , were at that time in the high place at Gibeon . * But David could not go before it to inquire of God ; for he was afraid because of the sword of the angel of Yahweh .

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