2Samuel:24

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* And again was the anger of the Lord kindled against Israel , and he incited David against them to say , Go , number Israel and Judah . * And the king said to Joab the captain of the army , who was with him , Traverse , I pray thee , all the tribes of Israel , from Dan even to Beer –sheba ’, and number ye the people , that I may know the number of the people . * Then said Joab unto the king , Now may the Lord thy God add unto the people , how many soever they be , a hundred –fold more , and may the eyes of my Lord the king see it ; but why doth my Lord the king find delight in this thing ? * Nevertheless the king ’s word remained firm 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 number the people of Israel . * And they passed over the Jordan , and encamped in ‘Aro ’er , on the right side of the city that lieth in the midst of the valley of Gad , and toward Ya ’zer : * Then they came to Gil ’ad , and to the land of Tachtimchodshi ; and they came to Dan –ya ’an , and about to Zidon ; * And they 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 , up to Beer –sheba ’. * And so they traversed all the land , and they came at the end of nine months and twenty days to Jerusalem . * 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 . * And David ’s heart smote him after that he had numbered the people . And David said unto the Lord , I have sinned greatly in what I have done ; and now , I beseech thee , O Lord , cause the iniquity of thy servant to pass away ; for I have acted very foolishly . * And when David was arisen in the morning , The word of the Lord came unto Gad the prophet , David ’s seer , saying , * Go and speak unto David , Thus hath said the Lord , Three things do I offer thee : choose for thyself one of them , and I will do it unto thee . * So Gad came to David , and told it unto him ; and he said unto him , Shall there come unto thee seven years of famine in thy land ? or three months , that thou flee before thy enemies , while they pursue thee ? or that there be for three days a pestilence in thy land ? now consider and see what word I shall bring back to him that hath sent me . * And David said unto Gad , I am in a great strait : let us fall then into the hand of the Lord ,––for his mercies are great ; but let me not fall into the hand of man . * And the Lord sent a pestilence in Israel from the morning even to the time appointed : and there died of the people from Dan even to Beer –sheba ’ seventy thousand men . * And when the angel stretched out his hand over Jerusalem to destroy it , the Lord bethought himself of the evil , and said to the angel that destroyed among the people , It is enough : now stay thy hand . And the angel of the Lord was by the threshingfloor of Aravnah the Jebusite . * And David spoke unto the Lord when he saw the angel that smote among the people , and said , Lo , I have indeed sinned , and I have truly done wickedly ; but these sheep , what have they done ? let thy hand , I pray thee , be against me , and against my father ’s house . * And Gad came to David on that day , and said unto him , Go up , erect an altar unto the Lord on the threshing –floor of Aravnah the Jebusite . * And David went up , according to the word of Gad , as the Lord had commanded . * And Aravnah looked up , and saw the king and his servants coming on toward him : and Aravnah went out , and bowed himself before the king with his face to the ground . * And Aravnah said , Wherefore is my Lord the king come to his servant ? And David said , To buy from thee the threshingfloor , to build an altar unto the Lord , that the plague may be stayed from the people . * And Aravnah said unto David , Let my Lord the king take and offer up what seemeth good in his eyes : behold , the oxen are here for burnt –offerings , and the threshing rollers and the harness of the oxen for wood . * All these things did Aravnah , the king , give unto the king . And Aravnah said unto the king , May the Lord thy God receive thee favorably . * And the king said unto Aravnah , No ; but I will surely buy it from thee at the value ; for I will not offer burnt –offerings unto the Lord my God without paying therefor . So David bought the threshing –floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver . * And David built there an altar unto the Lord , and offered burnt –offerings and peace –offerings : and the Lord was entreated for the land , and the plague was stayed from Israel .

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