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The anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel again, and he moved David against them to say, Go, number Israel and Judah. |
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And the king said to Joab, the military commander, who was with him, Go now through all the tribes of Israel from Dan to Beersheba, and number ye the people, that I may know the number of people. |
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And Joab said to the king: The Lord thy God add unto the people, how much to eat, and even a hundred times as much, and the eyes of my lord the king may see [it]; but why doth my lord the king delight in this thing? |
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But the king's word prevailed against Joab and the commanders; So Joab and the captains of the king of the people of Israel. |
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And they passed over Jordan and pitched in Aroer, on the right side of the city, which is among the valley of Gad, to Jazer; |
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and they came to Gilead and to the land of Takht-Hodshi; and they came to Dan - Jaan, and about to Zidon; |
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and came to the strengthening of Tyre and all the cities of the Hivites and of the Canaanites, and the Jews took to the south to Beersheba; |
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and went around the whole land, they came nine months and twenty days to Jerusalem. |
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And Joab gave the sum of the people to the king; and there were in Israel eight hundred thousand mighty men of war, drew the sword and five hundred thousand.
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And David's heart smote him after he had numbered the people. And David said to the Lord: I have sinned grievously, in doing so; and now, I beseech thee, O Lord, forgive the sin of thy servant; for I have done very foolishly. |
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When David got up in the morning, the word of the LORD came to the prophet Gad, David's seer: |
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Go and tell David: Thus says the Lord: Three [of punishment], I offer you; choose thee one of them, that I may do it unto thee. |
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And Gad came to David and told him, and said to him, Choose thee, be famine in your land for seven years, or will you flee from your foes three months, and they pursue thee? Or that there be three days' pestilence in your country? now advise, and see what I shall answer him who sent me. |
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And David said to Gad, I '; let us fall now I'm in the hands of the Lord, for His mercies are great; if only the hand of man let me not fall. |
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And the Lord sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning until the appointed time; and there died of the people from Dan to Beersheba, seventy thousand men. |
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And the angel stretched out his hand over Jerusalem to destroy it; the LORD repented of the evil and said to the angel that destroyed the people is enough: stay now thine hand. The angel of the LORD was by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. |
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And David said to the Lord when he saw the angel that smote the people, and said, Behold, I have sinned, I have done wickedly; but these sheep, what have they done? let your hand fall on me and on my father's house.
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Then came that day to David, and Gad said, Go up, build an altar to the Lord on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. |
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And David went up at the saying of Gad, as the LORD commanded. |
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And Araunah looked, and saw the king and his servants coming to him, and Araunah went out and bowed to the king, his face to the ground. |
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And Araunah said, Wherefore is my lord the king come to his servant? And David said to buy from you the threshing floor, to build an altar to the Lord, that the plague people. |
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And Ornan said to David, that taketh and exalt [the sacrifice], my lord, O king, that he likes. Here are oxen for the burnt offering and the wagon and harness the oxen for wood. |
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All this, O king, Araunah gives to the king. Araunah said unto the king, The LORD thy God will be merciful to you! |
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But the king said to Ornan, No, I will pay you what is and is not exalt the Lord my God sacrifices [taken] in vain. So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver. |
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And David built there an altar unto the LORD, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. And to propitiate the Lord in the land, and the plague of Israel. |
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