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But what does my lord the king intend for himself by this kind of thing?” <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/24-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>But the words of the king prevailed over the words of Joab and the leaders of the army. And so Joab and the leaders of the military departed from the face of the king, so that they might number the people of Israel. <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/24-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And when they had passed across the Jordan, they arrived at Aroer, to the right of the city, which is in the Valley of Gad. <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/24-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And they continued on through Jazer, into Gilead, and to the lower land of Hodsi. And they arrived in the woodlands of Dan. And going around beside Sidon, <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/24-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>they passed near the walls of Tyre, and near all the land of the Hivite and the Canaanite. And they went into the south of Judah, to Beersheba. <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/24-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And having inspected the entire land, after nine months and twenty days, they were present in Jerusalem. <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/24-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Then Joab gave the number of the description of the people to the king. And there were found of Israel eight hundred thousand able-bodied men, who might draw the sword; and of Judah, five hundred thousand fighting men.<p> <A name="11"></a><p class="hdg">Judgment for David’s Sin<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../1_chronicles/21.htm#7">1 Chronicles 21:7–13</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/24-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Then the heart of David struck him, after the people were numbered. And David said to the Lord: “I have sinned greatly in what I have done. But I pray that you, O Lord, may take away the iniquity of your servant. For I have acted very foolishly.” <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/24-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And David rose up in the morning, and the word of the Lord went to Gad, the prophet and seer of David, saying: <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/24-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>“Go, and say to David: ‘Thus says the Lord: I present to you a choice of three things. Choose one of these, whichever you will, so that I may do it to you.’ ” <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/24-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And when Gad had gone to David, he announced it to him, saying: “Either seven years of famine will come to you in your land; or you will flee for three months from your adversaries, and they will pursue you; or there will be a pestilence in your land for three days. Now then, deliberate, and see what word I may respond to him who sent me.” <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/24-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Then David said to Gad: “I am in great anguish. But it is better that I should fall into the hands of the Lord (for his mercies are many) than into the hands of men.”<p> <A name="16"></a><p class="hdg">A Plague on Israel<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../1_chronicles/21.htm#14">1 Chronicles 21:14–17</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/24-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And the Lord sent a pestilence upon Israel, from the morning until the appointed time. And there died of the people, from Dan to Beersheba, seventy thousand men. <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/24-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And when the Angel of the Lord had extended his hand over Jerusalem, so that he might destroy it, the Lord took pity on the affliction. And he said to the Angel who was striking the people: “It is enough. Hold back your hand now.” And the Angel of the Lord was beside the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite. <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/24-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And when he had seen the Angel cutting down the people, David said to the Lord: “I am the one who sinned. I have acted iniquitously. These ones who are the sheep, what have they done? I beg you that your hand may be turned against me and against my father’s house.”<p> <A name="19"></a><p class="hdg">David Builds an Altar<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../1_chronicles/21.htm#18">1 Chronicles 21:18–30</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/24-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Then Gad went to David on that day, and he said, “Ascend and construct an altar to the Lord on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.” <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/24-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And David ascended in accord with the word of Gad, which the Lord had commanded to him. <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/24-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And looking out, Araunah turned his attention to the king and his servants, passing toward him. <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/24-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And going out, he adored the king, lying prone with his face to the ground, and he said, “What is the reason that my lord the king has come to his servant?” And David said to him, “So as to purchase the threshing floor from you, and to build an altar to the Lord, and to quiet the plague that rages among the people.” <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/24-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And Araunah said to David: “May my lord the king offer and accept whatever is pleasing to him. You have oxen for a holocaust, and the cart and the yokes of the oxen to use for wood.” <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/24-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>All these things Araunah gave, as a king to a king. And Araunah said to the king, “May the Lord your God accept your vow.” <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/24-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>And in response, the king said to him: “It shall not be as you wish. Instead, I will purchase it from you at a price. For I will not offer to the Lord, my God, holocausts that cost nothing.” Therefore, David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/24-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And in that place, David built an altar to the Lord. And he offered holocausts and peace offerings. 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