2Samuel:24:1-17

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* And again the anger of Jehovah was kindled against Israel , and he moved David against them saying , Go , number Israel and Judah . * And the king said to Joab the captain of the host , who was with him , Go , I pray thee , through all the tribes of Israel , from Dan even to Beer-sheba , and count the people , that I may know the number of the people . * And Joab said to the king , May Jehovah thy God even add to the people , how many soever they be , a hundredfold , and that the eyes of my lord the king may see [it ]; but why does my lord the king delight in this thing ? * But the king 's word prevailed against Joab , and against the captains of the army . And Joab and the captains of the army went out from the presence of the king to count the people of Israel . * And they passed over the Jordan , and encamped in Aroer , on the right side of the city that is in the midst of the ravine of Gad , and toward Jaazer . * And they came to Gilead , and to the land of Tahtim-hodshi ; and came to Dan-jaan , and to the environs of Sidon ; * and they came to the fortified city of Tyre , and to all the cities of the Hivites and of the Canaanites ; and went out to the south of Judah , to Beer-sheba . * And they went through all the land , and came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days . * And Joab gave the sum of the number of the people to the king ; and there were of Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men that drew sword ; and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand men . * And David 's heart smote him after he had numbered the people . And David said to Jehovah , I have sinned greatly in what I have done ; and now , I beseech thee , Jehovah , put away the iniquity of thy servant ; for I have done very foolishly . * And when David arose in the morning , the word of Jehovah came to the prophet Gad , David 's seer , saying , * Go and say to David , Thus saith Jehovah : I impose on thee three [things ]; choose one of them that I may do it unto thee . * And Gad came to David , and told him , and said to him , Shall seven years of famine come to thee in thy land ? or wilt thou flee three months before thine adversaries while they pursue thee ? or shall there be three days ' pestilence in thy land ? Now be aware and consider what word I shall bring again to him that sent me . * And David said to Gad , I am in a great strait : let us fall , I pray thee , into the hand of Jehovah ; for his mercies are great ; but let me not fall into the hand of man . * And Jehovah sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning even to the set time ; and there died of the people from Dan even to Beer-sheba seventy thousand men . * And the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it ; but Jehovah repented him of the evil , and said to the angel that destroyed among the people , It is enough : withdraw now thine hand . And the angel of Jehovah was by the threshing-floor of Araunah the Jebusite . * And David spoke to Jehovah when he saw the angel that smote among the people , and said , Behold , it is I that have sinned , and it is I that have committed iniquity ; but these sheep , what have they done ? let thy hand , I pray thee , be on me , and on my father 's house !

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