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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:
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Then they came to Gilead, and to the land of
Tahtim-hodshi; and they came to Dan-jaan, 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 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 L
ORD
, I have sinned greatly in that I have done: and now, I beseech thee, O L
ORD
, 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 L
ORD
came unto the prophet Gad, David’s seer, saying,
12
Go and say unto David,
Thus saith the L
ORD
, 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 L
ORD
; for his mercies
are
great: and let me not fall into the hand of man.
15
So the L
ORD
sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning even to the time appointed: and
there died of the people fromDan even to Beer-sheba seventy thousand men.
16
And when the angel
stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the L
ORD
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 L
ORD
was by the threshingplace of Araunah the Jebusite.
17
And David spake unto the L
ORD
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 L
ORD
in the
threshingfloor of Araunah the Jebusite.
19
And David, according to the saying of Gad, went up as
the L
ORD
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 L
ORD
, 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 L
ORD
thy God accept thee.
24
And the king said unto Araunah, Nay; but I
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