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2 Samuel 24:1
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Now again the anger of the LORD burned against
Israel, and it incited David against them to say, "Go, number Israel and Judah." |
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| 2 Samuel 24:2 |
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The king said to Joab the commander of the army
who was with him, "Go about now through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan to
Beersheba, and register the people, that I may know the number of the people." |
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| 2 Samuel 24:3 |
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But Joab said to the king, "Now may the LORD
your God add to the people a hundred times as many as they are, while the eyes
of my lord the king still see; but why does my lord the king delight in this thing?" |
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| 2 Samuel 24:4 |
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Nevertheless, the king's word prevailed against
Joab and against the commanders of the army. So Joab and the commanders of the
army went out from the presence of the king to register the people of Israel. |
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| 2 Samuel 24:5 |
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They crossed the Jordan and camped in Aroer,
on the right side of the city that is in the middle of the valley of Gad and toward
Jazer. |
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| 2 Samuel 24:6 |
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Then they came to Gilead and to the land of
Tahtim-hodshi, and they came to Dan-jaan and around to Sidon, |
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| 2 Samuel 24:7 |
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and came to the fortress of Tyre and to all
the cities of the Hivites and of the Canaanites, and they went out to the south
of Judah, to Beersheba. |
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| 2 Samuel 24:8 |
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So when they had gone about through the whole
land, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days. |
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| 2 Samuel 24:9 |
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And Joab gave the number of the registration
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. |
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| 2 Samuel 24:10 |
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Now David's heart troubled him after he had
numbered the people. So David said to the LORD, "I have sinned greatly in what
I have done. But now, O LORD, please take away the iniquity of Your servant, for
I have acted very foolishly." |
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| 2 Samuel 24:11 |
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When David arose in the morning, the word of
the LORD came to the prophet Gad, David's seer, saying, |
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| 2 Samuel 24:12 |
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"Go and speak to David, 'Thus the LORD says,
"I am offering you three things; choose for yourself one of them, which I will
do to you."'" |
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| 2 Samuel 24:13 |
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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 consider and see what answer I shall return to Him
who sent me." |
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| 2 Samuel 24:14 |
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Then David said to Gad, "I am in great distress.
Let us now fall into the hand of the LORD for His mercies are great, but do not
let me fall into the hand of man." |
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Pestilence
Sent |
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| 2 Samuel 24:15 |
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So the LORD sent a pestilence upon Israel from
the morning until the appointed time, and seventy thousand men of the people from
Dan to Beersheba died. |
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| 2 Samuel 24:16 |
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When the angel stretched out his hand toward
Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD relented from the calamity and said to the angel
who destroyed the people, "It is enough! Now relax your hand!" And the angel of
the LORD was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite. |
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| 2 Samuel 24:17 |
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Then David spoke to the LORD when he saw the
angel who was striking down the people, and said, "Behold, it is I who have sinned,
and it is I who have done wrong; but these sheep, what have they done? Please
let Your hand be against me and against my father's house." |
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David
Builds an Altar |
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| 2 Samuel 24:18 |
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So Gad came to David that day and said to him,
"Go up, erect an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite." |
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| 2 Samuel 24:19 |
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David went up according to the word of Gad,
just as the LORD had commanded. |
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| 2 Samuel 24:20 |
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Araunah looked down and saw the king and his
servants crossing over toward him; and Araunah went out and bowed his face to
the ground before the king. |
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| 2 Samuel 24:21 |
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Then Araunah said, "Why has my lord the king
come to his servant?" And David said, "To buy the threshing floor from you, in
order to build an altar to the LORD, that the plague may be held back from the
people." |
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| 2 Samuel 24:22 |
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Araunah said to David, "Let my lord the king
take and offer up what is good in his sight. Look, the oxen for the burnt offering,
the threshing sledges and the yokes of the oxen for the wood. |
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| 2 Samuel 24:23 |
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Everything, O king, Araunah gives to the king."
And Araunah said to the king, "May the LORD your God accept you." |
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| 2 Samuel 24:24 |
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However, the king said to Araunah, "No, but
I will surely buy it from you for a price, for I will not offer burnt offerings
to the LORD my God which cost me nothing." So David bought the threshing floor
and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver. |
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| 2 Samuel 24:25 |
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David built there an altar to the LORD and offered
burnt offerings and peace offerings. Thus the LORD was moved by prayer for the
land, and the plague was held back from Israel. |
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