2Samuel:24:1-17
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Again the wrath of the Lord was burning against Israel ,
and moving David against them ,
he said ,
Go ,
take the number of Israel and Judah .
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And the king said to Joab and the captains of the army ,
who were with him ,
Go now through all the tribes of Israel ,
from Dan as far as Beer-sheba ,
and have all the people numbered ,
so that I may be certain of the number of the people .
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And Joab said to the king ,
Whatever the number of the people ,
may the Lord make it a hundred times as much ,
and may the eyes of my lord the king see it :
but why does my lord the king take pleasure in doing this thing ?
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But the king '
s order was stronger than Joab and the captains of the army .
And Joab and the captains of the army went out from the king ,
to take the number of the children of Israel .
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And they went over Jordan ,
and starting from Aroer ,
from the town which is in the middle of the valley ,
they went in the direction of the Gadites ,
and on to Jazer ;
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Then they came to Gilead ,
and to the land of the Hittites under Hermon ;
and they came to Dan ,
and from Dan they came round to Zidon ,
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And to the walled town of Tyre ,
and to all the towns of the Hivites and the Canaanites :
and they went out to the South of Judah at Beer-sheba .
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So after going through all the land in every direction ,
they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days .
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And Joab gave the king the number of all the people :
there were in Israel eight hundred thousand fighting men able to take up arms ;
and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand .
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And after the people had been numbered ,
David '
s heart was troubled .
And David said to the Lord ,
Great has been my sin in doing this ;
but now ,
O Lord ,
be pleased to take away the sin of your servant ,
for I have done very foolishly
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And David got up in the morning ;
now the word of the Lord had come to the prophet Gad ,
David '
s seer ,
saying ,
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Go and say to David ,
The Lord says ,
Three things are offered to you :
say which of them you will have ,
and I will do it to you .
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So Gad came to David ,
and gave him word of this and said to him ,
Are there to be three years when there is not enough food in your land ?
or will you go in flight from your haters for three months ,
while they go after you ?
or will you have three days of violent disease in your land ?
take thought and say what answer I am to give to him who sent me .
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And David said to Gad ,
This is a hard decision for me to make :
let us come into the hands of the Lord ,
for great are his mercies :
let me not come into the hands of men .
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So David made selection of the disease ;
and the time was the days of the grain-cutting ,
when the disease came among the people ,
causing the death of seventy thousand men from Dan as far as Beer-sheba .
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And when the hand of the angel was stretched out in the direction of Jerusalem ,
for its destruction ,
the Lord had regret for the evil ,
and said to the angel who was sending destruction on the people ,
It is enough ;
do no more .
And the angel of the Lord was by the grain-floor of Araunah the Jebusite .
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And when David saw the angel who was causing the destruction of the people ,
he said to the Lord ,
Truly ,
the sin is mine ;
I have done wrong :
but these are only sheep ;
what have they done ?
let your hand be against me and against my family .
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