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web @2Samuel:2:8 @Now Abner the son of Ner , captain of Saul 's army , had taken Ishbosheth the son of Saul , and brought him over to Mahanaim ; web @2Samuel:2:9 @and he made him king over Gilead , and over the Ashurites , and over Jezreel , and over Ephraim , and over Benjamin , and over all Israel . web @2Samuel:2:10 @Ishbosheth , Saul 's son , was forty years old when he began to reign over Israel , and he reigned two years . But the house of Judah followed David . web @2Samuel:2:11 @The time that David was king in Hebron over the house of Judah was seven years and six months . web @2Samuel:2:12 @Abner the son of Ner , and the servants of Ishbosheth the son of Saul , went out from Mahanaim to Gibeon . web @2Samuel:2:13 @Joab the son of Zeruiah , and the servants of David , went out , and met them by the pool of Gibeon ; and they sat down , the one on the one side of the pool , and the other on the other side of the pool . web @2Samuel:2:14 @Abner said to Joab , "Please let the young men arise and play before us !" Joab said , "Let them arise !" web @2Samuel:2:15 @Then they arose and went over by number : twelve for Benjamin , and for Ishbosheth the son of Saul , and twelve of the servants of David . web @2Samuel:2:16 @They each caught his opponent by the head , and thrust his sword in his fellow 's side ; so they fell down together : therefore that place was called Helkath Hazzurim , which is in Gibeon . web @2Samuel:2:17 @The battle was very severe that day : and Abner was beaten , and the men of Israel , before the servants of David . web @2Samuel:2:18 @The three sons of Zeruiah were there , Joab , and Abishai , and Asahel : and Asahel was as light of foot as a wild gazelle . web @2Samuel:2:19 @Asahel pursued after Abner ; and in going he didn 't turn to the right hand nor to the left from following Abner . web @2Samuel:2:20 @Then Abner looked behind him , and said , "Is it you , Asahel ?" He answered , "It is I ." web @2Samuel:2:21 @Abner said to him , "Turn aside to your right hand or to your left , and grab one of the young men , and take his armor ." But Asahel would not turn aside from following him . web @2Samuel:2:22 @Abner said again to Asahel , "Turn aside from following me . Why should I strike you to the ground ? How then should I hold up my face to Joab your brother ?" web @2Samuel:2:23 @However he refused to turn aside . Therefore Abner with the back end of the spear struck him in the body , so that the spear came out behind him ; and he fell down there , and died in the same place . It happened , that as many as came to the place where Asahel fell down and died stood still . web @2Samuel:2:24 @But Joab and Abishai pursued after Abner : and the sun went down when they had come to the hill of Ammah , that lies before Giah by the way of the wilderness of Gibeon . web @2Samuel:2:25 @The children of Benjamin gathered themselves together after Abner , and became one band , and stood on the top of a hill . web @2Samuel:2:26 @Then Abner called to Joab , and said , "Shall the sword devour forever ? Don 't you know that it will be bitterness in the latter end ? How long shall it be then , before you ask the people to return from following their brothers ?" web @2Samuel:2:27 @Joab said , "As God {The Hebrew word rendered "God " is "Elohim ."} lives , if you had not spoken , surely then in the morning the people would have gone away , and not each followed his brother ." web @2Samuel:2:28 @So Joab blew the trumpet ; and all the people stood still , and pursued after Israel no more , neither fought they any more . web @2Samuel:2:29 @Abner and his men went all that night through the Arabah ; and they passed over the Jordan , and went through all Bithron , and came to Mahanaim . web @2Samuel:2:30 @Joab returned from following Abner : and when he had gathered all the people together , there lacked of David 's servants nineteen men and Asahel . web @2Samuel:2:31 @But the servants of David had struck of Benjamin , and of Abner 's men , so that three hundred sixty men died . web @2Samuel:2:32 @They took up Asahel , and buried him in the tomb of his father , which was in Bethlehem . Joab and his men went all night , and the day broke on them at Hebron . web @2Samuel:20:1 @There happened to be there a base fellow , whose name was Sheba , the son of Bichri , a Benjamite : and he blew the trumpet , and said , "We have no portion in David , neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse . Every man to his tents , Israel !" web @2Samuel:20:2 @So all the men of Israel went up from following David , and followed Sheba the son of Bichri ; but the men of Judah joined with their king , from the Jordan even to Jerusalem . web @2Samuel:20:3 @David came to his house at Jerusalem ; and the king took the ten women his concubines , whom he had left to keep the house , and put them in custody , and provided them with sustenance , but didn 't go in to them . So they were shut up to the day of their death , living in widowhood . web @2Samuel:20:4 @Then the king said to Amasa , "Call me the men of Judah together within three days , and be here present ." web @2Samuel:20:5 @So Amasa went to call the men of Judah together ; but he stayed longer than the set time which he had appointed him . web @2Samuel:20:6 @David said to Abishai , "Now Sheba the son of Bichri will do us more harm than Absalom did . Take your lord 's servants , and pursue after him , lest he get himself fortified cities , and escape out of our sight ." web @2Samuel:20:7 @There went out after him Joab 's men , and the Cherethites and the Pelethites , and all the mighty men ; and they went out of Jerusalem , to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri . web @2Samuel:20:8 @When they were at the great stone which is in Gibeon , Amasa came to meet them . Joab was clothed in his apparel of war that he had put on , and on it was a sash with a sword fastened on his waist in its sheath ; and as he went forth it fell out . web @2Samuel:20:9 @Joab said to Amasa , "Is it well with you , my brother ?" Joab took Amasa by the beard with his right hand to kiss him . web @2Samuel:20:10 @But Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab 's hand . So he struck him with it in the body , and shed out his bowels to the ground , and didn 't strike him again ; and he died . Joab and Abishai his brother pursued after Sheba the son of Bichri . web @2Samuel:20:11 @There stood by him one of Joab 's young men , and said , "He who favors Joab , and he who is for David , let him follow Joab !" web @2Samuel:20:12 @Amasa lay wallowing in his blood in the midst of the highway . When the man saw that all the people stood still , he carried Amasa out of the highway into the field , and cast a garment over him , when he saw that everyone who came by him stood still . web @2Samuel:20:13 @When he was removed out of the highway , all the people went on after Joab , to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri . web @2Samuel:20:14 @He went through all the tribes of Israel to Abel , and to Beth Maacah , and all the Berites : and they were gathered together , and went also after him . web @2Samuel:20:15 @They came and besieged him in Abel of Beth Maacah , and they cast up a mound against the city , and it stood against the rampart ; and all the people who were with Joab battered the wall , to throw it down . web @2Samuel:20:16 @Then a wise woman cried out of the city , "Hear , hear ! Please say to Joab , 'Come near here , that I may speak with you .'" web @2Samuel:20:17 @He came near to her ; and the woman said , "Are you Joab ?" He answered , "I am ." Then she said to him , "Hear the words of your handmaid ." He answered , "I do hear ." web @2Samuel:20:18 @Then she spoke , saying , "They were used to say in old times , 'They shall surely ask counsel at Abel ;' and so they settled it . web @2Samuel:20:19 @I am among those who are peaceable and faithful in Israel . You seek to destroy a city and a mother in Israel . Why will you swallow up the inheritance of Yahweh ?" web @2Samuel:20:20 @Joab answered , "Far be it , far be it from me , that I should swallow up or destroy . web @2Samuel:20:21 @The matter is not so . But a man of the hill country of Ephraim , Sheba the son of Bichri by name , has lifted up his hand against the king , even against David . Deliver him only , and I will depart from the city ." The woman said to Joab , "Behold , his head shall be thrown to you over the wall ." web @2Samuel:20:22 @Then the woman went to all the people in her wisdom . They cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri , and threw it out to Joab . He blew the trumpet , and they were dispersed from the city , every man to his tent . Joab returned to Jerusalem to the king . web @2Samuel:20:23 @Now Joab was over all the army of Israel ; and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and over the Pelethites ; web @2Samuel:20:24 @and Adoram was over the men subject to forced labor ; and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was the recorder ; web @2Samuel:20:25 @and Sheva was scribe ; and Zadok and Abiathar were priests ; web @2Samuel:20:26 @and also Ira the Jairite was chief minister to David . web @2Samuel:21:1 @There was a famine in the days of David three years , year after year ; and David sought the face of Yahweh . Yahweh said , "It is for Saul , and for his bloody house , because he put to death the Gibeonites ." web @2Samuel:21:2 @The king called the Gibeonites , and said to them (now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel , but of the remnant of the Amorites ; and the children of Israel had sworn to them : and Saul sought to kill them in his zeal for the children of Israel and Judah ); web @2Samuel:21:3 @and David said to the Gibeonites , "What shall I do for you ? And with what shall I make atonement , that you may bless the inheritance of Yahweh ?" web @2Samuel:21:4 @The Gibeonites said to him , "It is no matter of silver or gold between us and Saul , or his house ; neither is it for us to put any man to death in Israel ." He said , "Whatever you say , that will I do for you ." web @2Samuel:21:5 @They said to the king , "The man who consumed us , and who devised against us , that we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the borders of Israel , web @2Samuel:21:6 @let seven men of his sons be delivered to us , and we will hang them up to Yahweh in Gibeah of Saul , the chosen of Yahweh ." The king said , "I will give them ." web @2Samuel:21:7 @But the king spared Mephibosheth , the son of Jonathan the son of Saul , because of Yahweh 's oath that was between them , between David and Jonathan the son of Saul . web @2Samuel:21:8 @But the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah , whom she bore to Saul , Armoni and Mephibosheth ; and the five sons of Michal the daughter of Saul , whom she bore to Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite . web @2Samuel:21:9 @He delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites , and they hanged them in the mountain before Yahweh , and all seven of them fell together . They were put to death in the days of harvest , in the first days , at the beginning of barley harvest . web @2Samuel:21:10 @Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth , and spread it for her on the rock , from the beginning of harvest until water was poured on them from the sky . She allowed neither the birds of the sky to rest on them by day , nor the animals of the field by night . web @2Samuel:21:11 @It was told David what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah , the concubine of Saul , had done . web @2Samuel:21:12 @David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabesh Gilead , who had stolen them from the street of Beth Shan , where the Philistines had hanged them , in the day that the Philistines killed Saul in Gilboa ; web @2Samuel:21:13 @and he brought up from there the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son : and they gathered the bones of those who were hanged . web @2Samuel:21:14 @They buried the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son in the country of Benjamin in Zela , in the tomb of Kish his father : and they performed all that the king commanded . After that God was entreated for the land . web @2Samuel:21:15 @The Philistines had war again with Israel ; and David went down , and his servants with him , and fought against the Philistines . David grew faint ; web @2Samuel:21:16 @and Ishbibenob , who was of the sons of the giant , the weight of whose spear was three hundred shekels of brass in weight , he being armed with a new sword , thought to have slain David . web @2Samuel:21:17 @But Abishai the son of Zeruiah helped him , and struck the Philistine , and killed him . Then the men of David swore to him , saying , "You shall go no more out with us to battle , that you don 't quench the lamp of Israel ." web @2Samuel:21:18 @It came to pass after this , that there was again war with the Philistines at Gob : then Sibbecai the Hushathite killed Saph , who was of the sons of the giant . web @2Samuel:21:19 @There was again war with the Philistines at Gob ; and Elhanan the son of Jaareoregim the Bethlehemite killed Goliath the Gittite 's brother , the staff of whose spear was like a weaver 's beam . web @2Samuel:21:20 @There was again war at Gath , where there was a man of great stature , who had on every hand six fingers , and on every foot six toes , four and twenty in number ; and he also was born to the giant . web @2Samuel:21:21 @When he defied Israel , Jonathan the son of Shimei , David 's brother , killed him . web @2Samuel:21:22 @These four were born to the giant in Gath ; and they fell by the hand of David , and by the hand of his servants . web @2Samuel:22:1 @David spoke to Yahweh the words of this song in the day that Yahweh delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies , and out of the hand of Saul : web @2Samuel:22:2 @and he said , "Yahweh is my rock , my fortress , and my deliverer , even mine ; web @2Samuel:22:3 @God , my rock , in him I will take refuge ; my shield , and the horn of my salvation , my high tower , and my refuge . My savior , you save me from violence . web @2Samuel:22:4 @I will call on Yahweh , who is worthy to be praised : So shall I be saved from my enemies . web @2Samuel:22:5 @For the waves of death surrounded me . The floods of ungodliness made me afraid . web @2Samuel:22:6 @The cords of Sheol {Sheol is the place of the dead .} were around me . The snares of death caught me . web @2Samuel:22:7 @In my distress I called on Yahweh . Yes , I called to my God . He heard my voice out of his temple . My cry came into his ears . web @2Samuel:22:8 @Then the earth shook and trembled . The foundations of heaven quaked and were shaken , because he was angry . web @2Samuel:22:9 @Smoke went up out of his nostrils . Fire out of his mouth devoured . Coals were kindled by it . web @2Samuel:22:10 @He bowed the heavens also , and came down . Thick darkness was under his feet . web @2Samuel:22:11 @He rode on a cherub , and flew . Yes , he was seen on the wings of the wind . web @2Samuel:22:12 @He made darkness pavilions around himself : gathering of waters , and thick clouds of the skies . web @2Samuel:22:13 @At the brightness before him , coals of fire were kindled . web @2Samuel:22:14 @Yahweh thundered from heaven . The Most High uttered his voice . web @2Samuel:22:15 @He sent out arrows , and scattered them ; lightning , and confused them . web @2Samuel:22:16 @Then the channels of the sea appeared . The foundations of the world were laid bare by the rebuke of Yahweh , At the blast of the breath of his nostrils . web @2Samuel:22:17 @He sent from on high and he took me . He drew me out of many waters . web @2Samuel:22:18 @He delivered me from my strong enemy , from those who hated me , for they were too mighty for me . web @2Samuel:22:19 @They came on me in the day of my calamity , but Yahweh was my support . web @2Samuel:22:20 @He also brought me out into a large place . He delivered me , because he delighted in me . web @2Samuel:22:21 @Yahweh rewarded me according to my righteousness . He rewarded me according to the cleanness of my hands . web @2Samuel:22:22 @For I have kept the ways of Yahweh , and have not wickedly departed from my God . web @2Samuel:22:23 @For all his ordinances were before me . As for his statutes , I did not depart from them . web @2Samuel:22:24 @I was also perfect toward him . I kept myself from my iniquity . web @2Samuel:22:25 @Therefore Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness , According to my cleanness in his eyesight . web @2Samuel:22:26 @With the merciful you will show yourself merciful . With the perfect man you will show yourself perfect . web @2Samuel:22:27 @With the pure you will show yourself pure . With the crooked you will show yourself shrewd . web @2Samuel:22:28 @You will save the afflicted people , But your eyes are on the haughty , that you may bring them down . web @2Samuel:22:29 @For you are my lamp , Yahweh . Yahweh will light up my darkness . web @2Samuel:22:30 @For by you , I run against a troop . By my God , I leap over a wall . web @2Samuel:22:31 @As for God , his way is perfect . The word of Yahweh is tested . He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him . web @2Samuel:22:32 @For who is God , besides Yahweh ? Who is a rock , besides our God ? web @2Samuel:22:33 @God is my strong fortress . He makes my way perfect . web @2Samuel:22:34 @He makes his feet like hinds ' feet , and sets me on my high places . web @2Samuel:22:35 @He teaches my hands to war , so that my arms bend a bow of brass . web @2Samuel:22:36 @You have also given me the shield of your salvation . Your gentleness has made me great . web @2Samuel:22:37 @You have enlarged my steps under me . My feet have not slipped . web @2Samuel:22:38 @I have pursued my enemies and destroyed them . I didn 't turn again until they were consumed . web @2Samuel:22:39 @I have consumed them , and struck them through , so that they can 't arise . Yes , they have fallen under my feet . web @2Samuel:22:40 @For you have armed me with strength for the battle . You have subdued under me those who rose up against me . web @2Samuel:22:41 @You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me , that I might cut off those who hate me . web @2Samuel:22:42 @They looked , but there was none to save ; even to Yahweh , but he didn 't answer them . web @2Samuel:22:43 @Then I beat them as small as the dust of the earth . I crushed them as the mire of the streets , and spread them abroad . web @2Samuel:22:44 @You also have delivered me from the strivings of my people . You have kept me to be the head of the nations . A people whom I have not known will serve me . web @2Samuel:22:45 @The foreigners will submit themselves to me . As soon as they hear of me , they will obey me . web @2Samuel:22:46 @The foreigners will fade away , and will come trembling out of their close places . web @2Samuel:22:47 @Yahweh lives ! Blessed be my rock ! Exalted be God , the rock of my salvation , web @2Samuel:22:48 @even the God who executes vengeance for me , who brings down peoples under me , web @2Samuel:22:49 @who brings me away from my enemies . Yes , you lift me up above those who rise up against me . You deliver me from the violent man . web @2Samuel:22:50 @Therefore I will give thanks to you , Yahweh , among the nations . Will sing praises to your name . web @2Samuel:22:51 @He gives great deliverance to his king , and shows loving kindness to his anointed , to David and to his seed , forevermore ." web @2Samuel:23:1 @Now these are the last words of David . David the son of Jesse says , the man who was raised on high says , the anointed of the God of Jacob , the sweet psalmist of Israel : web @2Samuel:23:2 @"The Spirit of Yahweh spoke by me . His word was on my tongue . web @2Samuel:23:3 @The God of Israel said , the Rock of Israel spoke to me , 'One who rules over men righteously , who rules in the fear of God , web @2Samuel:23:4 @shall be as the light of the morning , when the sun rises , a morning without clouds , when the tender grass springs out of the earth , through clear shining after rain .' web @2Samuel:23:5 @Most certainly my house is not so with God , yet he has made with me an everlasting covenant , ordered in all things , and sure , for it is all my salvation , and all my desire , although he doesn 't make it grow . web @2Samuel:23:6 @But all of the ungodly shall be as thorns to be thrust away , because they can 't be taken with the hand , web @2Samuel:23:7 @But the man who touches them must be armed with iron and the staff of a spear . They shall be utterly burned with fire in their place ." web @2Samuel:23:8 @These are the names of the mighty men whom David had : Josheb Basshebeth a Tahchemonite , chief of the captains ; the same was Adino the Eznite , against eight hundred slain at one time . web @2Samuel:23:9 @After him was Eleazar the son of Dodai the son of an Ahohite , one of the three mighty men with David , when they defied the Philistines who were there gathered together to battle , and the men of Israel were gone away . web @2Samuel:23:10 @He arose , and struck the Philistines until his hand was weary , and his hand froze to the sword ; and Yahweh worked a great victory that day ; and the people returned after him only to take spoil . web @2Samuel:23:11 @After him was Shammah the son of Agee a Hararite . The Philistines were gathered together into a troop , where there was a plot of ground full of lentils ; and the people fled from the Philistines . web @2Samuel:23:12 @But he stood in the midst of the plot , and defended it , and killed the Philistines ; and Yahweh worked a great victory . web @2Samuel:23:13 @Three of the thirty chief men went down , and came to David in the harvest time to the cave of Adullam ; and the troop of the Philistines was encamped in the valley of Rephaim . web @2Samuel:23:14 @David was then in the stronghold ; and the garrison of the Philistines was then in Bethlehem . web @2Samuel:23:15 @David longed , and said , "Oh that one would give me water to drink of the well of Bethlehem , which is by the gate !" web @2Samuel:23:16 @The three mighty men broke through the army of the Philistines , and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem , that was by the gate , and took it , and brought it to David : but he would not drink of it , but poured it out to Yahweh . web @2Samuel:23:17 @He said , "Be it far from me , Yahweh , that I should do this ! Isn 't it the blood of the men who went in jeopardy of their lives ?" Therefore he would not drink it . The three mighty men did these things . web @2Samuel:23:18 @Abishai , the brother of Joab , the son of Zeruiah , was chief of the three . He lifted up his spear against three hundred and killed them , and had a name among the three . web @2Samuel:23:19 @Wasn 't he most honorable of the three ? therefore he was made their captain : however he didn 't attain to the three . web @2Samuel:23:20 @Benaiah the son of Jehoiada , the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel , who had done mighty deeds , he killed the two sons of Ariel of Moab : he went down also and killed a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow . web @2Samuel:23:21 @He killed an Egyptian , a goodly man : and the Egyptian had a spear in his hand ; but he went down to him with a staff , and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian 's hand , and killed him with his own spear . web @2Samuel:23:22 @Benaiah the son of Jehoiada did these things , and had a name among the three mighty men . web @2Samuel:23:23 @He was more honorable than the thirty , but he didn 't attain to the three . David set him over his guard . web @2Samuel:23:24 @Asahel the brother of Joab was one of the thirty ; Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem , web @2Samuel:23:25 @Shammah the Harodite , Elika the Harodite , web @2Samuel:23:26 @Helez the Paltite , Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite , web @2Samuel:23:27 @Abiezer the Anathothite , Mebunnai the Hushathite , web @2Samuel:23:28 @Zalmon the Ahohite , Maharai the Netophathite , web @2Samuel:23:29 @Heleb the son of Baanah the Netophathite , Ittai the son of Ribai of Gibeah of the children of Benjamin , web @2Samuel:23:30 @Benaiah a Pirathonite , Hiddai of the brooks of Gaash . web @2Samuel:23:31 @Abialbon the Arbathite , Azmaveth the Barhumite , web @2Samuel:23:32 @Eliahba the Shaalbonite , the sons of Jashen , Jonathan , web @2Samuel:23:33 @Shammah the Hararite , Ahiam the son of Sharar the Ararite , web @2Samuel:23:34 @Eliphelet the son of Ahasbai , the son of the Maacathite , Eliam the son of Ahithophel the Gilonite , web @2Samuel:23:35 @Hezro the Carmelite , Paarai the Arbite , web @2Samuel:23:36 @Igal the son of Nathan of Zobah , Bani the Gadite , web @2Samuel:23:37 @Zelek the Ammonite , Naharai the Beerothite , armor bearers to Joab the son of Zeruiah , web @2Samuel:23:38 @Ira the Ithrite , Gareb the Ithrite , web @2Samuel:23:39 @Uriah the Hittite : thirty-seven in all . web @2Samuel:24:1 @Again the anger of Yahweh was kindled against Israel , and he moved David against them , saying , "Go , number Israel and Judah ." web @2Samuel:24:2 @The king said to Joab the captain of the army , who was with him , "Now go back and forth through all the tribes of Israel , from Dan even to Beersheba , and number the people , that I may know the sum of the people ." web @2Samuel:24:3 @Joab said to the king , "Now may Yahweh your God add to the people , however many they may be , one hundred times ; and may the eyes of my lord the king see it . But why does my lord the king delight in this thing ?" web @2Samuel:24:4 @Notwithstanding , the king 's word prevailed against Joab , and against the captains of the army . Joab and the captains of the army went out from the presence of the king , to number the people of Israel . web @2Samuel:24:5 @They passed over the Jordan , and encamped in Aroer , on the right side of the city that is in the middle of the valley of Gad , and to Jazer : web @2Samuel:24:6 @then they came to Gilead , and to the land of Tahtim Hodshi ; and they came to Dan Jaan , and around to Sidon , web @2Samuel:24:7 @and came to the stronghold of Tyre , and to all the cities of the Hivites , and of the Canaanites ; and they went out to the south of Judah , at Beersheba . web @2Samuel:24:8 @So when they had gone back and forth through all the land , they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days . web @2Samuel:24:9 @Joab gave up the sum of the numbering of the people to the king : and there were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men who drew the sword ; and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand men . web @2Samuel:24:10 @David 's heart struck him after that he had numbered the people . David said to Yahweh , "I have sinned greatly in that which I have done . But now , Yahweh , put away , I beg you , the iniquity of your servant ; for I have done very foolishly ." web @2Samuel:24:11 @When David rose up in the morning , the word of Yahweh came to the prophet Gad , David 's seer , saying , web @2Samuel:24:12 @"Go and speak to David , 'Thus says Yahweh , "I offer you three things . Choose one of them , that I may do it to you ."'" web @2Samuel:24:13 @So Gad came to David , and told him , and said to him , "Shall seven years of famine come to you in your land ? Or will you flee three months before your foes while they pursue you ? Or shall there be three days ' pestilence in your land ? Now answer , and consider what answer I shall return to him who sent me ." web @2Samuel:24:14 @David said to Gad , "I am in distress . Let us fall now into the hand of Yahweh ; for his mercies are great . Let me not fall into the hand of man ." web @2Samuel:24:15 @So Yahweh sent a pestilence on Israel from the morning even to the appointed time ; and there died of the people from Dan even to Beersheba seventy thousand men . web @2Samuel:24:16 @When the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it , Yahweh relented of the disaster , and said to the angel who destroyed the people , "It is enough . Now stay your hand ." The angel of Yahweh was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite . web @2Samuel:24:17 @David spoke to Yahweh when he saw the angel who struck the people , and said , "Behold , I have sinned , and I have done perversely ; but these sheep , what have they done ? Please let your hand be against me , and against my father 's house ." web @2Samuel:24:18 @Gad came that day to David , and said to him , "Go up , build an altar to Yahweh on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite ." web @2Samuel:24:19 @David went up according to the saying of Gad , as Yahweh commanded . web @2Samuel:24:20 @Araunah looked out , and saw the king and his servants coming on toward him . Then Araunah went out , and bowed himself before the king with his face to the ground . web @2Samuel:24:21 @Araunah said , "Why has my lord the king come to his servant ?" David said , "To buy your threshing floor , to build an altar to Yahweh , that the plague may be stopped from afflicting the people ." web @2Samuel:24:22 @Araunah said to David , "Let my lord the king take and offer up what seems good to him . Behold , the cattle for the burnt offering , and the threshing instruments and the yokes of the oxen for the wood : web @2Samuel:24:23 @all this , king , does Araunah give to the king ." Araunah said to the king , "May Yahweh your God accept you ." web @2Samuel:24:24 @The king said to Araunah , "No ; but I will most certainly buy it from you for a price . I will not offer burnt offerings to Yahweh my God which cost me nothing ." So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver . web @2Samuel:24:25 @David built an altar to Yahweh there , and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings . So Yahweh was entreated for the land , and the plague was stayed from Israel .

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