1Chronicles:21:7-17
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And God was displeased with this thing ;
therefore he smote Israel .
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And David said unto God ,
I have sinned greatly ,
because I have done this thing :
but now ,
I beseech thee ,
do away the iniquity of thy servant ;
for I have done very foolishly .
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And the LORD spake unto Gad ,
David '
s seer ,
saying ,
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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 .
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So Gad came to David ,
and said unto him ,
Thus saith the LORD ,
Choose thee
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Either three years '
famine ;
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 .
Now therefore advise thyself what word I shall bring again to him that sent me .
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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 .
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So the LORD sent pestilence upon Israel :
and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 ,
what have they done ?
let thine hand ,
I pray thee ,
O LORD my God ,
be on me ,
and on my father '
s house ;
but not on thy people ,
that they should be plagued .
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