2Samuel:24:2-15

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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 Yisra #el #, from Dan even to Beersheba B @#er , and number ye the people , that I may know the number of the people . * And Joab said unto the king , Now the LORD thy God add unto the people , how many soever they be , an hundredfold #H6471 pa #am #, and that the eyes of my lord the king may see it : but why doth my lord the king delight in this thing ? * Notwithstanding the kings word prevailed against Joab Yow #ab #, 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 Yisra #el #. * And they passed over Jordan , and pitched in Aroer #Arow #er #, on the right side of the city that lieth in the midst of the river of Gad , and toward Jazer Ya #azeyr #: * Then they came to Gilead Gil #ad #, and to the land of Tahtimhodshi Tachtiym ; and they came to Danjaan Dan Ya #an #, and about to Zidon , * And came to the strong hold of Tyre , and to all the cities of the Hivites , and of the Canaanites K @na #aniy #: and they went out to the south of Judah , even to Beersheba B @#er . * So when they had gone through all the land , they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days . * 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 # #Iysh-Chayil # that drew the sword ; and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand men . * And Davids 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 . * For when David was up in the morning , the word of the LORD came unto the prophet Gad , Davids seer , saying , * 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 . * 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 . * 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 . * So the LORD sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning even to the time appointed mow #ed #: and there died of the people from Dan even to Beersheba B @#erseventy thousand men .

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