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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>1 Chronicles 21</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/bsb/spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></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/1_chronicles/21.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="/bmc//1_chronicles/21-1.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="/1_chronicles/">1 Chronicles</a> > 1 Chronicles 21</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 border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../1_chronicles/20.htm" title="1 Chronicles 20">◄</a> 1 Chronicles 21 <a href="../1_chronicles/22.htm" title="1 Chronicles 22">►</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 align="center" id="jump2"><a href="/niv/1_chronicles/21.htm">NIV</a> • <a href="/nlt/1_chronicles/21.htm">NLT</a> • <a href="/esv/1_chronicles/21.htm">ESV</a> • <a href="/kjv/1_chronicles/21.htm">KJV</a> • <a href="/nkjv/1_chronicles/21.htm">NKJ</a> • <a href="/nasb/1_chronicles/21.htm">NAS</a></div><br /><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="1%" valign="top">BSB</td><td width="99%" valign="top" align="right"><a href="/parallel/1_chronicles/21.htm" style="font-weight:normal" title="Parallel Chapters">Parallel Chapters ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">David’s Military Census<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../exodus/30.htm#11">Exodus 30:11–16</a>; <a href ="../2_samuel/24.htm">2 Samuel 24:1–9</a>)</span><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/21-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Then Satan<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">a</a></span> rose up against Israel and incited David to take a census of Israel. <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/21-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>So David said to Joab and the commanders of the troops, “Go and count the Israelites from Beersheba to Dan and bring me a report, so that I may know their number.” <A name="4"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/21-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>But Joab replied, “May the LORD multiply His troops a hundred times over. My lord the king, are they not all servants of my lord? Why does my lord want to do this? Why should he bring guilt on Israel?” <A name="5"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/21-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Nevertheless, the king’s word prevailed against Joab. So Joab departed and traveled throughout Israel, and then he returned to Jerusalem. <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/21-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And Joab reported to David the total number of the troops. In all Israel there were 1,100,000 men who drew the sword, including 470,000 in Judah. <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/21-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>But Joab did not include Levi and Benjamin in the count, because the king’s command was detestable to him. <A name="8"></a><p class="hdg">Judgment for David’s Sin<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../2_samuel/24.htm#10">2 Samuel 24:10–14</a>)</span><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/21-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>This command was also evil in the sight of God; so He struck Israel. <A name="9"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/21-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Then David said to God, “I have sinned greatly because I have done this thing. Now I beg You to take away the iniquity of Your servant, for I have acted very foolishly.” <A name="10"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/21-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And the LORD instructed Gad, David’s seer, <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/21-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>“Go and tell David that this is what the LORD says: ‘I am offering you three options. Choose one of them, and I will carry it out against you.’<span class="thinq"> </span>” <A name="12"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/21-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>So Gad went and said to David, “This is what the LORD says: ‘You must choose <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/21-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>between three years of famine, three months of being swept away<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">b</a></span> before your enemies and overtaken by their swords, or three days of the sword of the LORD—days of plague upon the land, with the angel of the LORD ravaging every part of Israel.’ Now then, decide how I should reply to Him who sent me.” <A name="14"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/21-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>David answered Gad, “I am deeply distressed. Please, let me fall into the hand of the LORD, for His mercies are very great; but do not let me fall into the hands of men.” <A name="15"></a><p class="hdg">A Plague on Israel<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../2_samuel/24.htm#15">2 Samuel 24:15–17</a>)</span><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/21-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>So the LORD sent a plague upon Israel, and seventy thousand men of Israel fell dead. <A name="16"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/21-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Then God sent an angel to destroy Jerusalem, but as the angel was doing so, the LORD saw it and relented from the calamity, and He said to the angel who was destroying the people, “Enough! Withdraw your hand now!” <p class="reg"> At that time the angel of the LORD was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">c</a></span> the Jebusite. <A name="17"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/21-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>When David lifted up his eyes and saw the angel of the LORD standing between heaven and earth, with a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem, David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell facedown. <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/21-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And David said to God, “Was it not I who gave the order to count the people? I<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">d</a></span> am the one who has sinned and acted wickedly. But these sheep, what have they done? O LORD my God, please let Your hand fall upon me and my father’s house, but do not let this plague remain upon Your people.” <A name="19"></a><p class="hdg">David Builds an Altar<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../2_samuel/24.htm#18">2 Samuel 24:18–25</a>)</span><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/21-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Then the angel of the LORD ordered Gad to tell David to go up and build an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/21-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>So David went up at the word that Gad had spoken in the name of the LORD. <A name="21"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/21-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Now Ornan was threshing wheat when he turned and saw the angel; and his four sons who were with him hid themselves. <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/21-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>David came to Ornan, and when Ornan looked out and saw David, he left the threshing floor and bowed facedown before David. <A name="23"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/21-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Then David said to Ornan, “Grant me the site of this threshing floor, that I may build an altar to the LORD. Sell it to me for the full price, so that the plague upon the people may be halted.” <A name="24"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/21-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Ornan said to David, “My lord the king may take whatever seems good. Look, I will give the oxen for the burnt offerings, the threshing sledges for the wood, and the wheat for the grain offering—I will give it all.” <A name="25"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/21-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>“No,” replied King David, “I insist on paying the full price, for I will not take for the LORD what belongs to you, nor will I offer burnt offerings that cost me nothing.” <A name="26"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/21-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>So David paid Ornan six hundred shekels of gold<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">e</a></span> for the site. <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/21-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>And there he built an altar to the LORD and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. He called upon the LORD, who answered him with fire from heaven on the altar of burnt offering. <A name="28"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/21-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Then the LORD spoke to the angel, who put his sword back into its sheath. <A name="29"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/21-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>At that time, when David saw that the LORD had answered him at the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, he offered sacrifices there. <A name="30"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/21-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>For the tabernacle of the LORD that Moses had made in the wilderness and the altar of burnt offering were presently at the high place in Gibeon, <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/21-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>but David could not go before it to inquire of God, because he was afraid of the sword of the angel of the LORD.</p><A name="fn"></a><div id="fnlink"><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:</b><br><br><span class="fnverse">1</span> <span class="footnotesbot">a</span> That is, <i>the Accuser</i><span class="thin"> </span> or <i>the Adversary</i><span class="thin"> </span><br><span class="fnverse">12</span> <span class="footnotesbot">b</span> Hebrew; LXX and Vulgate <i>of fleeing</i><span class="thin"> </span>; see <a href="../2_samuel/24.htm#13">2 Samuel 24:13</a>.<br><span class="fnverse">15</span> <span class="footnotesbot">c</span> <i>Ornan</i><span class="thin"> </span> is a variant of <i>Araunah</i><span class="thin"> </span>; also in verses 18–28; see <a href="../2_samuel/24.htm#16">2 Samuel 24:16</a>.<br><span class="fnverse">17</span> <span class="footnotesbot">d</span> Or <i>I, the shepherd,</i><span class="thin"> </span> see <a href="../2_samuel/24.htm#17">2 Samuel 24:17</a> DSS and LXX.<br><span class="fnverse">25</span> <span class="footnotesbot">e</span> <i>600 shekels</i><span class="thin"> </span> is approximately 15.1 pounds or 6.8 kilograms of gold.<br><br /></div><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Berean Bible (<a href=http://berean.bible>www.Berean.Bible</a>) <a href=http://bereanbible.com>Berean Study Bible (BSB)</a> © 2016, 2020 by <a href=http://biblehub.com>Bible Hub</a> and <a href=http://berean.bible>Berean.Bible</a>. 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