Book 10 : 2 SAMUEL - Chapter 024
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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 Beersheba, and number ye the people, that I may know
the number of the people
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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
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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
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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
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Then they came to Gilead, and to the land of Tahtimhodshi; and
they came to Danjaan, and about to Zidon
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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 Beersheba
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So when they had gone through all the land, they came to
Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days
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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
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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
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For when David was up in the morning, the word of the LORD
came unto the prophet Gad, David's seer, saying
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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
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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
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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
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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 Beersheba seventy thousand men
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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
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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
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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
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And David, according to the saying of Gad, went up as the LORD
commanded
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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
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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
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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
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All these things did Araunah, as a king, give unto the king.
And Araunah said unto the king, The LORD thy God accept thee
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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
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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.
Book 10 : 2 SAMUEL
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