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1 Chronicles

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.