2 SAMUEL —— CHAPTER 24
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1 And again the anger of the LORD was kindled
against Israel, and he moved David against them to say, Go, number Israel
and Judah.
2 For the king said to Joab the captain of the
host, which was with him, Go now through all the tribes of Israel,
from Dan even to Beer-sheba, and number ye the people, that I may know
the number of the people.
3 And Joab said unto the king, Now the LORD thy
God add unto the people, how many soever they be, an hundredfold, and that
the eyes of my lord the king may see it: but why doth my lord the
king delight in this thing?
4 Notwithstanding the king's word prevailed
against Joab, and against the captains of the host. And Joab and the
captains of the host went out from the presence of the king, to number the
people of Israel.
5 And they passed over Jordan, and
pitched in Aroer, on the right side of the city that lieth in the midst
of the river of Gad, and toward Jazer:
6 Then they came to Gilead, and to the land of
Tahtim-hodshi; and they came to Dan-jaan, and about to Zidon,
7 And came to the strong hold of Tyre, and to all
the cities of the Hivites, and of the Canaanites: and they went out to the
south of Judah, even to Beer-sheba.
8 So when they had gone through all the land,
they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.
9 And Joab gave up the sum of the number of the
people unto the king: and there were in Israel eight hundred thousand
valiant men that drew the sword; and the men of Judah were five
hundred thousand men.
10 And David's heart smote him after
that he had numbered the people. And David said unto the LORD, I have
sinned greatly in that I have done: and now, I beseech thee, O LORD, take
away the iniquity of thy servant; for I have done very foolishly.
11 For when David was up in the morning, the
word of the LORD came unto the prophet Gad, David's seer, saying,
12 Go and say unto David, Thus saith the LORD, I
offer thee three things; choose thee one of them, that I may do it
unto thee.
13 So Gad came to David, and told him, and said
unto him, Shall seven years of famine come unto thee in thy land? or wilt
thou flee three months before thine enemies, while they pursue thee? or
that there be three days' pestilence in thy land? now advise, and see what
answer I shall return to him that sent me.
14 And David said unto Gad, I am in a great
strait: let us fall now into the hand of the LORD; for his mercies are
great: and let me not fall into the hand of man.
15 So the LORD sent a pestilence upon
Israel from the morning even to the time appointed: and there died of the
people from Dan even to Beer-sheba seventy thousand men.
16 And when the angel stretched out his hand
upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD repented him of the evil, and said
to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough: stay now thine hand.
And the angel of the LORD was by the threshingplace of Araunah the
Jebusite.
17 And David spake unto the LORD when he saw
the angel that smote the people, and said, Lo, I have sinned, and I have
done wickedly: but these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray
thee, be against me, and against my father's house.
18 And Gad came that day to David, and
said unto him, Go up, rear an altar unto the LORD in the threshingfloor of
Araunah the Jebusite.
19 And David, according to the saying of Gad,
went up as the LORD commanded.
20 And Araunah looked, and saw the king and his
servants coming on toward him: and Araunah went out, and bowed himself
before the king on his face upon the ground.
21 And Araunah said, Wherefore is my lord the
king come to his servant? And David said, To buy the threshingfloor of
thee, to build an altar unto the LORD, that the plague may be stayed from
the people.
22 And Araunah said unto David, Let my lord the
king take and offer up what seemeth good unto him: behold, here
be oxen for burnt sacrifice, and threshing instruments and other
instruments of the oxen for wood.
23 All these things did Araunah, as
a king, give unto the king. And Araunah said unto the king, The LORD thy
God accept thee.
24 And the king said unto Araunah, Nay; but I
will surely buy it of thee at a price: neither will I offer burnt
offerings unto the LORD my God of that which doth cost me nothing. So
David bought the threshingfloor and the oxen for fifty shekels of
silver.
25 And David built there an altar unto the LORD,
and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. So the LORD was
intreated for the land, and the plague was stayed from Israel.
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