mkjv - 2Samuel:24:1-17

mkjv@2Samuel:24:1 @ And again the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and He moved David against them to say, Go count Israel and Judah.

mkjv@2Samuel:24:2 @ For the king said to Joab the commander of the army, who [was] with him, Go around through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan to Beer-sheba, and count the people so that I may know the number of the people.

mkjv@2Samuel:24:3 @ And Joab said to the king, And may the LORD your God add to the people however many they be, a hundred times as many, and may the eyes of my lord the king see it. But why does my lord the king delight in this thing?

mkjv@2Samuel:24:4 @ But the king's word prevailed against Joab, and against the commanders of the army. And Joab and the commanders of the army went out from the presence of the king to number the people of Israel.

mkjv@2Samuel:24:5 @ And they passed over Jordan and pitched in Aroer, on the right side of the city that [is] in the middle of the Valley of Gad, and to Jazer.

mkjv@2Samuel:24:6 @ And they came to Gilead, and to the land of Tahtim-hodshi. And they came to Dan-jaan, and around to Sidon.

mkjv@2Samuel:24:7 @ And they came to the stronghold 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.

mkjv@2Samuel:24:8 @ And they went to and fro through all the land, and came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.

mkjv@2Samuel:24:9 @ And Joab gave the sum of the number of the people to the king. And there were in Israel eight hundred thousand strong men who drew the sword. And the men of Judah [were] five hundred thousand men.

mkjv@2Samuel:24:10 @ And David's heart struck him after he had numbered the people. And David said to the LORD, I have sinned greatly in what I have done. And now, I beseech You, O LORD, take away the iniquity of Your servant, for I have done very foolishly.

mkjv@2Samuel:24:11 @ And David rose up in the morning. And the word of the LORD came to the prophet Gad, David's seer, saying,

mkjv@2Samuel:24:12 @ Go and say to David, So says the LORD, I offer you three [things]. Choose one of them, so that I may do [it] to you.

mkjv@2Samuel:24:13 @ And Gad came to David, and told him, and said to him, Shall seven years of famine come upon you and on your land? Or will you flee three months before your enemies while they pursue you? Or shall there be three days' plague in your land? And advise, and see what answer I shall return to Him who sent me.

mkjv@2Samuel:24:14 @ And David said to Gad, I [am] in great distress. Let us fall now into the hand of the LORD, for His mercies [are] great. And do not let me fall into the hand of man.

mkjv@2Samuel:24:15 @ And the LORD sent a plague upon Israel from the morning even till the time appointed. And there died from the people, from Dan to Beer-sheba, seventy thousand men.

mkjv@2Samuel:24:16 @ And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD turned from the evil, and said to the angel who destroyed the people, Enough! And stay your hand. And the angel of the LORD was by the threshing-place of Araunah the Jebusite.

mkjv@2Samuel:24:17 @ And David spoke to the LORD when he saw the angel who struck the people, and said, Lo, I have sinned, and I have done wickedly. But these sheep, what have they done? I pray You, let Your hand be against me and against my father's house.