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And again the anger of Jehovah glowed against Israel ,
and moved David against them ,
to say ,
Go ,
number Israel and Judah .
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And the king said to Joab ,
the commander of the army with him ,
Go now to and fro through all the tribes of Israel ,
from Dan even to Beersheba ,
and number the people ,
that I may know the number of the people .
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And Joab said to the king ,
Yea ,
may Jehovah your God add to the people ,
however many they may be ,
a hundredfold .
And may the eyes of my lord the king see it .
But why does my lord the king delight in this thing ?
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But the word of the king prevailed against Joab ,
and against the army commanders .
And Joab and the army commanders went out from the presence of the king to number the people of Israel .
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And they crossed over the Jordan and camped in Aroer ,
on the right of the city ,
in the middle of the Valley of Gad ,
and to Jazer .
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And they came into Gilead ,
and to the land of Tahtim-hodshi .
And they came to Dan-jaan ,
and around to Sidon .
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And they came into the fortress of Tyre ,
and all the cities of the Hivite ,
and of the Canaanite .
And they went out to the south of Judah ,
to Beersheba .
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And they went to and fro through all the land ,
and came in to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days .
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And Joab gave the count from the numbering of the people to the king .
And Israel was eight hundred thousand mighty men drawing sword ;
and the men of Judah five hundred thousand men .
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And after he had numbered the people ,
the heart of David struck him .
And David said to Jehovah ,
I have sinned greatly in that which I have done .
And now ,
O Jehovah ,
I pray ,
take away the iniquity of your servant ,
for I have acted very foolishly .
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And David rose up in the morning ;
and the word of Jehovah came to Gad the prophet ,
David '
s seer ,
saying ,
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Go and you shall speak to David ,
So says Jehovah ,
I am setting up three things for you ;
you choose one of them and I will do it for you .
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And Gad came in to David and told him ,
and said to him ,
Shall seven years of famine come to you in your land ?
Or shall you flee before your foes three months ,
and they pursue you ?
Or shall three days '
plague come into your land ?
Now consider ,
and see what I shall take back to Him who sent word to me .
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And David said ,
Because of this I am in great distress .
Let us fall now into the hand of Jehovah ,
for many are His mercies ;
and do not let me fall into the hand of man .
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And Jehovah sent a plague on Israel from the morning even to the time appointed .
And from Dan even to Beersheba seventy thousand of the people died .
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And the angel put forth his hand to Jerusalem ,
to destroy it .
And Jehovah repented as to the evil ,
and said to the angel who was destroying among the people ,
Enough !
Now drop your hand .
And the angel of Jehovah was near the threshing-floor of Araunah the Jebusite .
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And when he saw the angel who was striking among the people ,
David spoke to Jehovah and said ,
Behold ,
I have sinned .
Yea ,
I have acted perversely .
And these ,
the flock ,
what have they done ?
Now let your hand be on me ,
and on my father '
s house .