2Samuel:24:1-17

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* And the Lord caused his anger to burn forth again in Israel , and Satan stirred up David against them , saying , Go , number Israel and Juda . * And the king said to Joab commander of the host , who was with him , Go now through all the tribes of Israel and Juda , from Dan even to Bersabee , and number the people , and I will know the number of the people . * And Joab said to the king , Now may the Lord add to the people a hundred-fold as many as they are , and may the eyes of my lord the king (note :)Gr . seeing (:note ) see it : but why does my lord the king desire this thing ? * Nevertheless the word of the king prevailed against Joab an the captains of the host : And Joab and the captains of the host went out before the king to number the people of Israel . * And they went over Jordan , and encamped in Aroer , on the right of the city which is in the midst of the valley of Gad and Eliezer . * And they came to Galaad , and into the land of Thabason , which is Adasai , and they came to Danidan and Udan , and compassed Sidon . * And they came to Mapsar of Tyre , and to all the cities of the Evite and the Chananite : and they came by the South of Juda to Bersabee . * And they compassed the whole land ; and they arrived at Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days . * And Joab gave in the number of the census of the people to the king : and Israel consisted of eight hundred thousand men of might that drew sword ; and the men of Juda , five hundred thousand fighting men . * And the heart of David smote him after he had numbered the people ; and David said to the Lord , I have sinned grievously , O Lord , in what I have now done : remove , I pray thee , the iniquity of thy servant , for I have been exceedingly foolish . * And David rose early in the morning , and the word of the Lord came to the prophet Gad , the seer , saying , Go , and speak to David , saying , * Thus saith the Lord , (note :)The word eimi is simply redundant (:note ) I bring one of three things upon thee : now choose thee one of them , and I will do it to thee . * And Gad went in to David , and told him , and said to him , Choose one of these things to befall thee , whether there shall come upon thee for three years famine in thy land ; or that thou shouldest flee three months before thine enemies , and they should pursue thee ; or that there should be for three days mortality in thy land . Now then decide , and see what answer I shall return to him that sent me . * And David said to Gad , On every side (note :)Gr . things are very narrow to me (:note ) I am much straitened : let me fall now into the hands of the Lord , for his compassions are very many ; and let me not fall into the hands of man . * So David chose for himself the mortality : and they were the days of wheat-harvest ; and the Lord sent a pestilence upon Israel from morning till (note :)Lit . dinner time (:note ) noon , and the plague began among the people ; and there died of the people from Dan even to Bersabee seventy thousand men . * And the angel of the Lord stretched out his hand against Jerusalem to destroy it , and the Lord repented of the evil , and said to the angel that destroyed the people , It is (note :)Gr . much (:note ) enough now , withhold thine hand . And the angel of the Lord was by the threshing-floor of Orna the Jebusite . * And David spoke to the Lord when he saw the angel smiting the people , and he said , Behold , it is I that have done wrong , (note :)Alex . adds , «and I the shepherd have done wickedly ’(:note ) but these sheep what have they done ? Let thy hand , I pray thee , be upon me , and upon my father ’s house .

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