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* And Satan stood up against Israel Yisra #el #, and provoked David to number Israel Yisra #el #. * And David said to Joab and to the rulers of the people , Go , number Israel from Beersheba B @#ereven to Dan ; and bring the number of them to me , that I may know it . * And Joab answered , The LORD make his people an hundred times so many more as they be : but , my lord the king , are they not all my lords servants ? why then doth my lord require this thing ? why will he be a cause of trespass to Israel Yisra #el #? * Nevertheless the kings word prevailed against Joab Yow #ab #. Wherefore Joab departed , and went throughout all Israel Yisra #el #, and came to Jerusalem . * And Joab gave the sum of the number of the people unto David . And all they of Israel were a thousand thousand and an hundred thousand men that drew sword : and Judah was four hundred threescore and ten thousand men that drew sword . * But Levi and Benjamin counted he not among them : for the kings word was abominable to Joab Yow #ab #. * And God was displeased with this thing ; therefore he smote Israel Yisra #el #. * And David said unto God , I have sinned greatly m @#od #, because I have done this thing : but now , I beseech thee , do away the iniquity of thy servant ; for I have done very foolishly . * And the LORD spake unto Gad , Davids seer , saying , * Go and tell David , saying , 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 said unto him , Thus saith the LORD , Choose thee * Either three years famine ra #ab #; or three months to be destroyed before thy foes , while that the sword of thine enemies overtaketh thee ; or else three days the sword of the LORD , even the pestilence , in the land , and the angel of the LORD destroying throughout all the coasts of Israel Yisra #el #. Now therefore advise thyself what word I shall bring again to him that sent me . * And David said unto Gad , I am in a great strait : let me fall now into the hand of the LORD ; for very great are his mercies : but let me not fall into the hand of man . * So the LORD sent pestilence upon Israel Yisra #el #: and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men . * And God sent an angel unto Jerusalem to destroy it : and as he was destroying , the LORD beheld , and he repented him of the evil , and said to the angel that destroyed , It is enough , stay now thine hand . And the angel of the LORD stood by the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite . * And David lifted up his eyes , and saw the angel of the LORD stand between the earth and the heaven , having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem . Then David and the elders of Israel , who were clothed in sackcloth , fell upon their faces . * And David said unto God , Is it not I that commanded the people to be numbered ? even I it is that have sinned and done evil indeed ; but as for these sheep tso #n #, what have they done ? let thine hand , I pray thee , O LORD my God , be on me , and on my fathers house ; but not on thy people , that they should be plagued . * Then the angel of the LORD commanded Gad to say to David , that David should go up , and set up an altar unto the LORD in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite . * And David went up at the saying of Gad , which he spake in the name of the LORD . * And Ornan turned back , and saw the angel mal #ak #; and his four sons with him hid themselves . Now Ornan was threshing wheat . * And as David came to Ornan , Ornan looked and saw David , and went out of the threshingfloor , and bowed himself to David with his face to the ground . * Then David said to Ornan , Grant me the place of this threshingfloor , that I may build an altar therein unto the LORD : thou shalt grant it me for the full price : that the plague may be stayed from the people . * And Ornan said unto David , Take it to thee , and let my lord the king do that which is good in his eyes : lo , I give thee the oxen also for burnt offerings , and the threshing instruments for wood , and the wheat for the meat offering ; I give it all . * And king David said to Ornan , Nay ; but I will verily buy it for the full price : for I will not take that which is thine for the LORD , nor offer burnt offerings without cost . * So David gave to Ornan for the place six hundred shekels of gold by weight . * And David built there an altar unto the LORD , and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings , and called upon the LORD ; and he answered him from heaven by fire upon the altar of burnt offering . * And the LORD commanded the angel mal #ak #; and he put up # his sword again into the sheath thereof . * At that time when David saw that the LORD had answered him in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite , then he sacrificed there . * For the tabernacle of the LORD , which Moses made in the wilderness , and the altar of the burnt offering , were at that season in the high place at Gibeon Gib #own #. * But David could not go before it to enquire of God : for he was afraid because of the sword of the angel of the LORD .

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