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why then doth my lord require this thing? why will he be a cause of trespass to Israel?
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Nevertheless
the king’s word prevailed against Joab. Wherefore Joab departed, and went throughout all Israel,
and came to Jerusalem.
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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.
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But Levi and Benjamin counted he not among
them: for the king’s word was abominable to Joab.
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And God was displeased with this thing;
therefore he smote Israel.
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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.
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And the L
ORD
spake unto Gad, David’s seer, saying,
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Go and tell David, saying, Thus saith
the L
ORD
, 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 said unto him, Thus saith the L
ORD
, Choose thee
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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 L
ORD
, even the pestilence, in the land, and the angel of the
L
ORD
destroying throughout all the coasts of Israel. Now therefore advise thyself what word I shall
bring again to him that sent me.
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And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let me fall now
into the hand of the L
ORD
; for very great
are
his mercies: but let me not fall into the hand of man.
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So the L
ORD
sent pestilence upon Israel: and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men.
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And
God sent an angel unto Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he was destroying, the L
ORD
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 L
ORD
stood by the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.
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And David lifted
up his eyes, and saw the angel of the L
ORD
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.
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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 L
ORD
my God, be on me, and on my father’s
house; but not on thy people, that they should be plagued.
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Then the angel of the L
ORD
commanded Gad to say to David, that David should go up, and
set up an altar unto the L
ORD
in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.
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And David went up at
the saying of Gad, which he spake in the name of the L
ORD
.
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And Ornan turned back, and saw
the angel; and his four sons with him hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat.
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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.
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Then David said to Ornan, Grant me the place of
this
threshingfloor, that I may build an altar therein unto the L
ORD
: thou shalt grant it me for the
full price: that the plague may be stayed from the people.
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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.
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And king David said to Ornan, Nay; but I will verily buy it for the full price: for I will not
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