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                                   1Chronicles


                                   Chapter 21


  1. 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 Beersheba 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 enquire of God: for he
     was afraid because of the sword of the angel of the LORD.


                                   Chapter 22


  1. Then David said, This is the house of the LORD God, and this
     is the altar of the burnt offering for Israel.