1 Chronicles 21:1WEB
Satan stood up against Israel, and moved David to take a census of Israel.
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1 Chronicles 21:1WEB
Satan stood up against Israel, and moved David to take a census of Israel.
1 Chronicles 21:2WEB
David said to Joab and to the princes of the people, “Go, count Israel from Beersheba even to Dan; and bring me word, that I may know how many there are.”
1 Chronicles 21:3WEB
Joab said, “May Yahweh make his people a hundred times as many as they are. But, my lord the king, aren’t they all my lord’s servants? Why does my lord require this thing? Why will he be a cause of guilt to Israel?”
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
1 Chronicles 21:4WEB
Nevertheless the king’s word prevailed against Joab. Therefore Joab departed and went throughout all Israel, then came to Jerusalem.
1 Chronicles 21:5WEB
Joab gave the sum of the census of the people to David. All those of Israel were one million one hundred thousand men who drew a sword; and in Judah were four hundred seventy thousand men who drew a sword.
1 Chronicles 21:6WEB
But he didn’t count Levi and Benjamin among them, for the king’s word was abominable to Joab.
1 Chronicles 21:7WEB
God was displeased with this thing; therefore he struck Israel.
1 Chronicles 21:8WEB
David said to God, “I have sinned greatly, in that I have done this thing. But now put away, I beg you, the iniquity of your servant, for I have done very foolishly.”
1 Chronicles 21:9WEB
Yahweh spoke to Gad, David’s seer, saying,
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
1 Chronicles 21:10WEB
“Go and speak to David, saying, ‘Yahweh says, “I offer you three things. Choose one of them, that I may do it to you.”’”
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
1 Chronicles 21:11WEB
So Gad came to David and said to him, “Yahweh says, ‘Take your choice:
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
1 Chronicles 21:12WEB
either three years of famine; or three months to be consumed before your foes, while the sword of your enemies overtakes you; or else three days of the sword of Yahweh, even pestilence in the land, and Yahweh’s angel destroying throughout all the borders of Israel. Now therefore consider what answer I shall return to him who sent me.’”
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
1 Chronicles 21:13WEB
David said to Gad, “I am in distress. Let me fall, I pray, into Yahweh’s hand, for his mercies are very great. Don’t let me fall into man’s hand.”
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
1 Chronicles 21:14WEB
So Yahweh sent a pestilence on Israel, and seventy thousand men of Israel fell.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
1 Chronicles 21:15WEB
God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it. As he was about to destroy, Yahweh saw, and he relented of the disaster, and said to the destroying angel, “It is enough. Now withdraw your hand.” Yahweh’s angel was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
1 Chronicles 21:16WEB
David lifted up his eyes, and saw Yahweh’s angel standing between earth and the sky, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell on their faces.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
1 Chronicles 21:17WEB
David said to God, “Isn’t it I who commanded the people to be counted? It is even I who have sinned and done very wickedly; but these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand, O Yahweh my God, be against me and against my father’s house; but not against your people, that they should be plagued.”
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
1 Chronicles 21:18WEB
Then Yahweh’s angel commanded Gad to tell David that David should go up and raise an altar to Yahweh on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
1 Chronicles 21:19WEB
David went up at the saying of Gad, which he spoke in Yahweh’s name.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
1 Chronicles 21:20WEB
Ornan turned back and saw the angel; and his four sons who were with him hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat.
1 Chronicles 21:21WEB
As David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David, and went out of the threshing floor, and bowed himself to David with his face to the ground.
1 Chronicles 21:22WEB
Then David said to Ornan, “Sell me the place of this threshing floor, that I may build an altar to Yahweh on it. You shall sell it to me for the full price, that the plague may be stopped from afflicting the people.”
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
1 Chronicles 21:23WEB
Ornan said to David, “Take it for yourself, and let my lord the king do that which is good in his eyes. Behold, I give the oxen for burnt offerings, and the threshing instruments for wood, and the wheat for the meal offering. I give it all.”
1 Chronicles 21:24WEB
King David said to Ornan, “No, but I will most certainly buy it for the full price. For I will not take that which is yours for Yahweh, nor offer a burnt offering that costs me nothing.”
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
1 Chronicles 21:25WEB
So David gave to Ornan six hundred shekels of gold by weight for the place.
1 Chronicles 21:26WEB
David built an altar to Yahweh there, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and called on Yahweh; and he answered him from the sky by fire on the altar of burnt offering.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
1 Chronicles 21:27WEB
Then Yahweh commanded the angel, and he put his sword back into its sheath.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
1 Chronicles 21:28WEB
At that time, when David saw that Yahweh had answered him in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, then he sacrificed there.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
1 Chronicles 21:29WEB
For Yahweh’s tabernacle, which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of burnt offering, were at that time in the high place at Gibeon.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
1 Chronicles 21:30WEB
But David couldn’t go before it to inquire of God, for he was afraid because of the sword of Yahweh’s angel.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible, which is in the public domain.