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Chapter 21
And
Satan
stood
up
against
Israel,
and
provoked
David
to
number
Israel.
2
And
David
said
to
Joab
and
to
the
rulers
of
the
people,
Go,
number
Israel
from
Beer-sheba
even
to
Dan;
and
bring
the
number
of
them
to
me,
that
I
may
know
it.
3
And
Joab
answered,
The
Lord
make
his
people
an
hundred
times
so
many
more
as
they
be:
but,
my
lord
the
king,
are
they
not
all
my
lord’s
servants?
why
then
doth
my
lord
require
this
thing?
why
will
he
be
a
cause
of
trespass
to
Israel?
4
Nevertheless
the
king’s
word
prevailed
against
Joab.
Wherefore
Joab
departed,
and
went
throughout
all
Israel,
and
came
to
Jerusalem.
5
And
Joab
gave
the
sum
of
the
number
of
the
people
unto
David.
And
all
they
of
Israel
were
a
thousand
thousand
and
an
hundred
thousand
men
that
drew
sword:
and
Judah
was
four
hundred
threescore
and
ten
thousand
men
that
drew
sword.
6
But
Levi
and
Benjamin
counted
he
not
among
them:
for
the
king’s
word
was
abominable
to
Joab.
7
And
God
was
displeased
with
this
thing;
therefore
he
smote
Israel.
8
And
David
said
unto
God,
I
have
sinned
greatly,
because
I
have
done
this
thing:
but
now,
I
beseech
thee,
do
away
the
iniquity
of
thy
servant;
for
I
have
done
very
foolishly.
9
And
the
Lord
spake
unto
Gad,
David’s
seer,
saying,
10
Go
and
tell
David,
saying,
Thus
saith
the
Lord,
I
offer
thee
three
things:
choose
thee
one
of
them,
that
I
may
do
it
unto
thee.
11
So
Gad
came
to
David,
and
said
unto
him,
Thus
saith
the
Lord,
Choose
thee
12
Either
three
years’
famine;
or
three
months
to
be
destroyed
before
thy
foes,
while
that
the
sword
of
thine
enemies
overtaketh
thee;
or
else
three
days
the
sword
of
the
Lord,
even
the
pestilence,
in
the
land,
and
the
angel
of
the
Lord
destroying
throughout
all
the
coasts
of
Israel.
Now
therefore
advise
thyself
what
word
I
shall
bring
again
to
him
that
sent
me.
13
And
David
said
unto
Gad,
I
am
in
a
great
strait:
let
me
fall
now
into
the
hand
of
the
Lord;
for
very
great
are
his
mercies:
but
let
me
not
fall
into
the
hand
of
man.
14
So
the
Lord
sent
pestilence
upon
Israel:
and
there
fell
of
Israel
seventy
thousand
men.
15
And
God
sent
an
angel
unto
Jerusalem
to
destroy
it:
and
as
he
was
destroying,
the
Lord
beheld,
and
he
repented
him
of
the
evil,
and
said
to
the
angel
that
destroyed,
It
is
enough,
stay
now
thine
hand.
And
the
angel
of
the
Lord
stood
by
the
threshingfloor
of
Ornan
the
Jebusite.
16
And
David
lifted
up
his
eyes,
and
saw
the
angel
of
the
Lord
stand
between
the
earth
and
the
heaven,
having
a
drawn
sword
in
his
hand
stretched
out
over
Jerusalem.
Then
David
and
the
elders
of
Israel,
who
were
clothed
in
sackcloth,
fell
upon
their
faces.
17
And
David
said
unto
God,
Is
it
not
I
that
commanded
the
people
to
be
numbered?
even
I
it
is
that
have
sinned
and
done
evil
indeed;
but
as
for
these
sheep,
what
have
they
done?
let
thine
hand,
I
pray
thee,
O
Lord
my
God,
be
on
me,
and
on
my
father’s
house;
but
not
on
thy
people,
that
they
should
be
plagued.
18
Then
the
angel
of
the
Lord
commanded
Gad
to
say
to
David,
that
David
should
go
up,
and
set
up
an
altar
unto
the
Lord
in
the
threshingfloor
of
Ornan
the
Jebusite.
19
And
David
went
up
at
the
saying
of
Gad,
which
he
spake
in
the
name
of
the
Lord.
20
And
Ornan
turned
back,
and
saw
the
angel;
and
his
four
sons
with
him
hid
themselves.
Now
Ornan
was
threshing
wheat.
21
And
as
David
came
to
Ornan,
Ornan
looked
and
saw
David,
and
went
out
of
the
threshingfloor,
and
bowed
himself
to
David
with
his
face
to
the
ground.
22
Then
David
said
to
Ornan,
Grant
me
the
place
of
this
threshingfloor,
that
I
may
build
an
altar
therein
unto
the
Lord:
thou
shalt
grant
it
me
for
the
full
price:
that
the
plague
may
be
stayed
from
the
people.
23
And
Ornan
said
unto
David,
Take
it
to
thee,
and
let
my
lord
the
king
do
that
which
is
good
in
his
eyes:
lo,
I
give
thee
the
oxen
also
for
burnt
offerings,
and
the
threshing
instruments
for
wood,
and
the
wheat
for
the
meat
offering;
I
give
it
all.
24
And
king
David
said
to
Ornan,
Nay;
but
I
will
verily
buy
it
for
the
full
price:
for
I
will
not
take
that
which
is
thine
for
the
Lord,
nor
offer
burnt
offerings
without
cost.
25
So
David
gave
to
Ornan
for
the
place
six
hundred
shekels
of
gold
by
weight.
26
And
David
built
there
an
altar
unto
the
Lord,
and
offered
burnt
offerings
and
peace
offerings,
and
called
upon
the
Lord;
and
he
answered
him
from
heaven
by
fire
upon
the
altar
of
burnt
offering.
27
And
the
Lord
commanded
the
angel;
and
he
put
up
his
sword
again
into
the
sheath
thereof.
28
At
that
time
when
David
saw
that
the
Lord
had
answered
him
in
the
threshingfloor
of
Ornan
the
Jebusite,
then
he
sacrificed
there.
29
For
the
tabernacle
of
the
Lord,
which
Moses
made
in
the
wilderness,
and
the
altar
of
the
burnt
offering,
were
at
that
season
in
the
high
place
at
Gibeon.
30
But
David
could
not
go
before
it
to
inquire
of
God:
for
he
was
afraid
because
of
the
sword
of
the
angel
of
the
Lord.
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