2Samuel:24:1-17
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And again the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel ,
and he moved David against them to say ,
Go ,
number Israel and Judah .
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For the king said to Joab the captain of the host ,
which was with him ,
Go now through all the tribes of Israel ,
from Dan even to Beersheba ,
and number ye the people ,
that I may know the number of the people .
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And Joab said unto the king ,
Now the LORD thy God add unto the people ,
how many soever they be ,
an hundredfold ,
and that the eyes of my lord the king may see it :
but why doth my lord the king delight in this thing ?
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Notwithstanding the king '
s word prevailed against Joab ,
and against the captains of the host .
And Joab and the captains of the host went out from the presence of the king ,
to number the people of Israel .
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And they passed over Jordan ,
and pitched in Aroer ,
on the right side of the city that lieth in the midst of the river of Gad ,
and toward Jazer :
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Then they came to Gilead ,
and to the land of Tahtimhodshi ;
and they came to Danjaan ,
and about to Zidon ,
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And came to the strong hold of Tyre ,
and to all the cities of the Hivites ,
and of the Canaanites :
and they went out to the south of Judah ,
even to Beersheba .
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So when they had gone through all the land ,
they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days .
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And Joab gave up the sum of the number of the people unto the king :
and there were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men that drew the sword ;
and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand men .
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And David '
s heart smote him after that he had numbered the people .
And David said unto the LORD ,
I have sinned greatly in that I have done :
and now ,
I beseech thee ,
O LORD ,
take away the iniquity of thy servant ;
for I have done very foolishly .
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For when David was up in the morning ,
the word of the LORD came unto the prophet Gad ,
David '
s seer ,
saying ,
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Go and say unto David ,
Thus saith the LORD ,
I offer thee three things ;
choose thee one of them ,
that I may do it unto thee .
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So Gad came to David ,
and told him ,
and said unto him ,
Shall seven years of famine come unto thee in thy land ?
or wilt thou flee three months before thine enemies ,
while they pursue thee ?
or that there be three days '
pestilence in thy land ?
now advise ,
and see what answer I shall return to him that sent me .
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And David said unto Gad ,
I am in a great strait :
let us fall now into the hand of the LORD ;
for his mercies are great :
and let me not fall into the hand of man .
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So the LORD sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning even to the time appointed :
and there died of the people from Dan even to Beersheba seventy thousand men .
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And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it ,
the LORD repented him of the evil ,
and said to the angel that destroyed the people ,
It is enough :
stay now thine hand .
And the angel of the LORD was by the threshingplace of Araunah the Jebusite .
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And David spake unto the LORD when he saw the angel that smote the people ,
and said ,
Lo ,
I have sinned ,
and I have done wickedly :
but these sheep ,
what have they done ?
let thine hand ,
I pray thee ,
be against me ,
and against my father '
s house .