2Samuel:24

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* And (note :)Before they were plagued with famine , ( 2Sa_21:1 ).(:note ) again the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel , and The Lord permitted Satan , as in ( 1Ch_21:2 ). he moved David against them to say , Go , number Israel and Judah . * 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 (note :)Because he did this to determine his power and to trust in it , it offended God , for otherwise it was lawful to number the people , ( Exo_30:12 ; Num_1:2 ).(:note ) number of the people . * And Ioab saide vnto the King , The Lorde thy God increase the people an hundreth folde mo then they be , and that the eyes of my lorde the King may see it : but why doeth my lord the King desire this thing ? * Notwithstanding the Kings worde preuailed against Ioab and against the captaines of the hoste : therefore Ioab and the captaines of the hoste went out from the presence of the King to nomber the people of Israel . * And they passed ouer Iorden , &amp ; pitched in Aroer at the right side of the citie that is in the middes of the valley of Gad and toward Iazer . * Then they came to Gilead , and to Tahtim-hodshi , so they came to Dan Iaan , and so about to Zidon , * And came to the fortresse of Tyrus and to all the cities of the Hiuites and of the Canaanites , and went towarde the South of Iudah , euen to Beer-sheba . * So when they had gone about all the lande , they returned to Ierusalem at the ende of nine moneths and twentie dayes . * And Joab gave up the sum of the number of the people unto the king : and there were in Israel (note :)According to Joab 's count : for in all there were eleven hundred thousand , ( 1Ch_21:5 ).(:note ) eight hundred thousand valiant men that drew the sword ; and the men of Judah [were ] Including the Benjamites with them , or else they had but four hundred and seventy thousand . five hundred thousand men . * Then Dauids heart smote him , after that he had numbred the people : and Dauid said vnto the Lorde , I haue sinned exceedingly in that I haue done : therefore nowe , Lorde , I beseech thee , take away the trespasse of thy seruant : for I haue done very foolishly . * For when David was up in the morning , the word of the LORD came unto the prophet Gad , David 's (note :)Whom God had appointed for David and his time .(:note ) seer , saying , * Go , &amp ; say vnto Dauid , Thus saith ye Lord , I offer thee three thinges , chuse thee which of them I shall doe vnto thee . * So Gad came to David , and told him , and said unto him , Shall (note :)Three years of famine were past for the Gibeonites and this was the fourth year to which should have been added another three more years , ( 1Ch_21:12 ).(:note ) 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 Dauid said vnto Gad , I am in a wonderfull strait : let vs fall nowe into the hand of the Lord , (for his mercies are great ) and let mee not fall into the hand of man . * So the LORD sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning even to the time appointed : and there died of the people from (note :)From the one side of the country to the other .(:note ) Dan even to Beersheba seventy thousand men . * 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 : (note :)The Lord spared this place , because he had chosen it to build his temple there .(:note ) stay now thine hand . And the angel of the LORD was by the threshingplace of Araunah the Jebusite . * 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 (note :)David did not see the just cause why God plagued the people , and therefore he offers himself for God 's correction as the only cause of this evil .(:note ) done ? let thine hand , I pray thee , be against me , and against my father 's house . * So Gad came the same day to Dauid , and said vnto him , Go vp , reare an altar vnto the Lord in the threshing floore of Araunah the Iebusite . * And Dauid (according to the saying of Gad ) went vp , as the Lord had commanded . * And Araunah looked , and sawe the King and his seruants comming towarde him , and Araunah went out , and bowed himselfe before the King on his face to the ground , * And (note :)Called also Ornan ( 1Ch_21:20 ).(:note ) Araunah said , Wherefore is my lord the king come to his servant ? And David said , To buy the threshingfloor of thee , to build an altar unto the LORD , that the plague may be stayed from the people . * Then Araunah saide vnto Dauid , Let my lord the King take and offer what seemeth him good in his eyes : beholde the oxen for the burnt offring , and charets , and the instruments of the oxen for wood . * All these [things ] did Araunah , (note :)That is , abundantly , for as some write , he was king of Jerusalem before David won the tower .(:note ) [as ] a king , give unto the king . And Araunah said unto the king , The LORD thy God accept thee . * And the king said unto Araunah , Nay ; but I will surely buy [it ] of thee at a price : neither will I offer burnt offerings unto the LORD my God of that which doth cost me nothing . So David bought the threshingfloor and the oxen for (note :)Some write that every tribe gave 50 which makes 600 , or that afterward he bought as much as came to 550 shekels .(:note ) fifty shekels of silver . * And Dauid built there an altar vnto the Lorde , and offred burnt offrings and peace offrings , and the Lord was appeased toward ye lande , and the plague ceased from Israel .

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