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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>2 Samuel 24 Amplified Bible</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /><script type="application/javascript" src="https://scripts.webcontentassessor.com/scripts/8a2459b64f9cac8122fc7f2eac4409c8555fac9383016db59c4c26e3d5b8b157"></script><script src='https://qd.admetricspro.com/js/biblehub/biblehub-layout-loader-revcatch.js'></script><script id='HyDgbd_1s' src='https://prebidads.revcatch.com/ads.js' type='text/javascript' async></script><script>(function(w,d,b,s,i){var cts=d.createElement(s);cts.async=true;cts.id='catchscript'; cts.dataset.appid=i;cts.src='https://app.protectsubrev.com/catch_rp.js?cb='+Math.random(); document.head.appendChild(cts); }) (window,document,'head','script','rc-anksrH');</script></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/2_samuel/24.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/2_samuel/24-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">AMP</a> > 2 Samuel 24</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../2_samuel/23.htm" title="2 Samuel 23">◄</a> 2 Samuel 24 <a href="../1_kings/1.htm" title="1 Kings 1">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Amplified Bible</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nas/esv/2_samuel/24.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><p class="hdg">The Census Taken</p><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/24-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Now again the anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[a]</a></span>He incited David against them to say, “Go, <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[b]</a></span>count [the people of] Israel and Judah.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/24-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>So the king said to Joab the commander of the army who was with him, “Go now through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan [in the north] to Beersheba [in the south], and conduct a census of the people, so that I may know the number of the people.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/24-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>But Joab said to the king, “May the LORD your God add to the people a hundred times as many as there are, and let the eyes of my lord the king see it; but why does my lord the king <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[c]</a></span>want to do this thing?” <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/24-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Nevertheless, the king’s word prevailed against Joab and the commanders of the army. So they went from the king’s presence to take a census of the people of Israel. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/24-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>They crossed over the Jordan and camped in Aroer, on the south side of the city which is in the middle of the river valley [of the Arnon] toward Gad, and on toward Jazer. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/24-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Then they came to Gilead and to the land of Tahtim-hodshi, and they came to Dan-jaan and around to Sidon, <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/24-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>and they came to the stronghold of Tyre and to all the cities of the Hivites and Canaanites, and they went out to the south of Judah, to Beersheba. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/24-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>So when they had gone about through all the land [taking the census], they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/24-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And Joab gave the sum of the census of the people to the king. In Israel there were 800,000 valiant men who drew the sword, and the men of Judah were 500,000. <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/24-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>But David’s heart (conscience) troubled him after he had counted the people. David said to the LORD, “I have sinned greatly in what I have done. But now, O LORD, please take away the sin of Your servant, for I have acted very foolishly.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/24-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>When David got up in the morning, the word of the LORD came to the prophet Gad, David’s seer, saying, <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 am giving you three <i>choices;</i> select one of them for yourself, and I will do it to you.”’” <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/24-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>So Gad came to David and told him, and said to him, “Shall seven years of famine come to you in your land? Or will you flee three months before your enemies as they pursue you? Or shall there be three days of pestilence (plague) in your land? Now consider this and decide what answer I shall return to Him who sent me.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/24-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Then David said to Gad, “I am in great distress. Let us fall into the hands of the LORD, for His mercies are great, but do not let me fall into the hands of man.” <p class="hdg">Pestilence Sent</p><p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/24-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>So the LORD sent a pestilence (plague) [lasting three days] upon Israel from the morning until the appointed time, and seventy thousand men of the people from Dan to Beersheba died. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/24-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>When the [avenging] angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD relented from the disaster and said to the angel who destroyed the people, “It is enough! Now relax your hand.” And the angel of the LORD was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/24-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>When David saw the angel who was striking down the people, he spoke to the LORD and said, “Behold, I [alone] am the one who has sinned and done wrong; but these sheep (people of Israel), what have they done [to deserve this]? Please let Your hand be [only] against me and my father’s house (family).” <p class="hdg">David Builds an Altar</p><p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/24-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Then Gad [the prophet] came to David that day and said to him, “Go up, set up an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite [where you saw the angel].” <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/24-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>So David went up according to Gad’s word, as the LORD commanded. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/24-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Araunah looked down and saw the king and his servants crossing over toward him; and he went out and bowed before the king with his face toward the ground. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/24-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Araunah said, “Why has my lord the king come to his servant?” And David said, “To buy the threshing floor from you, to build an altar to the LORD, so that the plague may be held back from the people.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/24-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Araunah said to David, “Let my lord the king take and offer up whatever seems good to him. Look, here are oxen for the burnt offering, and threshing sledges and the yokes of the oxen for the wood. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/24-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>All of this, O king, Araunah gives to the king.” And Araunah said to the king, “May the LORD your God be favorable to you.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/24-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>But the king said to Araunah, “No, but I will certainly buy it from you for a price. I will not offer burnt offerings to the LORD my God which cost me nothing.” So David purchased the <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[d]</a></span>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>David built an altar to the LORD there, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. So the LORD was moved [to compassion] by [David’s] prayer for the land, and the plague was held back from Israel.<A name="fn"></a></p><br /><br /><span class="footnotesbot">[a]</span> <span class="fnverse">1</span> See 1 Chr 21:1. As in the case of Paul’s thorn in the flesh (2 Cor 12:7; cf 1 Cor 5:5), God sometimes accomplishes His purposes by allowing Satan to inflict injury or cause trouble.<br><span class="footnotesbot">[b]</span> <span class="fnverse">1</span> Ordinarily taking a census would have been a routine procedure for a nation as a way of assessing taxes or conscripting and assigning men to an army. But in Israel none of this was necessary unless it was commanded by God, and David’s action was the product of ego and an uncharacteristic shift of trust and dependence from God to human resources (as Joab suspected, v 3). 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