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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//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 GNT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></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="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">GNT</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 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">Good News Translation</div><div class="chap"><h3 class="s">David Takes a Census</h3><h5 class="r">(<ref loc="1CH 21:1-27">1 Chronicles 21.1-27</ref>)</h5><p class="par"><span class="v10_24_1"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.24.1" class="v10_24_1">1</span>On another occasion the <span class="nd">Lord</span> was angry with Israel, and he made David bring trouble on them. The <span class="nd">Lord</span> said to him, “Go and count the people of Israel and Judah.” </span><span class="v10_24_2"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.24.2" class="v10_24_2">2</span>So David gave orders to Joab, the commander of his army: “Go with your officers through all the tribes of Israel from one end of the country to the other, and count the people. I want to know how many there are.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v10_24_3"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.24.3" class="v10_24_3">3</span>But Joab answered the king, “Your Majesty, may the <span class="nd">Lord</span> your God make the people of Israel a hundred times more numerous than they are now, and may you live to see him do it. But why does Your Majesty want to do this?” </span><span class="v10_24_4"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.24.4" class="v10_24_4">4</span>But the king made Joab and his officers obey his order; they left his presence and went out to count the people of Israel.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v10_24_5"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.24.5" class="v10_24_5">5</span>They crossed the Jordan and camped south of Aroer, the city in the middle of the valley, in the territory of Gad.<a href="#fn" id="link_2Sam.24.5!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> From there they went north to Jazer, </span><span class="v10_24_6"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.24.6" class="v10_24_6">6</span>and on to Gilead and to Kadesh, in Hittite territory.<a href="#fn" id="link_2Sam.24.6!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> Then they went to Dan, and from Dan they went<a href="#fn" id="link_2Sam.24.6!f.2" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> west to Sidon. </span><span class="v10_24_7"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.24.7" class="v10_24_7">7</span>Then they went south to the fortified city of Tyre, on to all the cities of the Hivites and the Canaanites, and finally to Beersheba, in the southern part of Judah. </span><span class="v10_24_8"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.24.8" class="v10_24_8">8</span>So after nine months and twenty days they returned to Jerusalem, having traveled through the whole country. </span><span class="v10_24_9"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.24.9" class="v10_24_9">9</span>They reported to the king the total number of men capable of military service: 800,000 in Israel and 500,000 in Judah.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v10_24_10"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.24.10" class="v10_24_10">10</span>But after David had taken the census, his conscience began to hurt, and he said to the <span class="nd">Lord</span>, “I have committed a terrible sin in doing this! Please forgive me. I have acted foolishly.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v10_24_11"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.24.11-2Sam.24.12" class="v10_24_11">11-12</span>The <span class="nd">Lord</span> said to Gad, David's prophet, “Go and tell David that I am giving him three choices. I will do whichever he chooses.” The next morning, after David had gotten up, </span><span class="v10_24_13"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.24.13" class="v10_24_13">13</span>Gad went to him, told him what the <span class="nd">Lord</span> had said, and asked, “Which is it to be? Three<a href="#fn" id="link_2Sam.24.13!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> years of famine in your land or three months of running away from your enemies or three days of an epidemic in your land? Now think it over, and tell me what answer to take back to the <span class="nd">Lord</span>.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v10_24_14"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.24.14" class="v10_24_14">14</span>David answered, “I am in a desperate situation! But I don't want to be punished by people. Let the <span class="nd">Lord</span> himself be the one to punish us, for he is merciful.” </span><span class="v10_24_15"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.24.15" class="v10_24_15">15</span>So the <span class="nd">Lord</span> sent an epidemic on Israel, which lasted from that morning until the time that he had chosen. From one end of the country to the other seventy thousand Israelites died. </span><span class="v10_24_16"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.24.16" class="v10_24_16">16</span>When the <span class="nd">Lord</span>'s angel was about to destroy Jerusalem, the <span class="nd">Lord</span> changed his mind about punishing the people and said to the angel who was killing them, “Stop! That's enough!” The angel was by the threshing place of Araunah, a Jebusite.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v10_24_17"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.24.17" class="v10_24_17">17</span>David saw the angel who was killing the people, and said to the <span class="nd">Lord</span>, “I am the guilty one. I am the one who did wrong. What have these poor people done? You should punish me and my family.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v10_24_18"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.24.18" class="v10_24_18">18</span>That same day Gad went to David and said to him, “Go up to Araunah's threshing place and build an altar to the <span class="nd">Lord</span>.” </span><span class="v10_24_19"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.24.19" class="v10_24_19">19</span>David obeyed the <span class="nd">Lord</span>'s command and went as Gad had told him to. </span><span class="v10_24_20"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.24.20" class="v10_24_20">20</span>Araunah looked down and saw the king and his officials coming up to him. He threw himself on the ground in front of David </span><span class="v10_24_21"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.24.21" class="v10_24_21">21</span>and asked, “Your Majesty, why are you here?”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v10_24_21">David answered, “To buy your threshing place and build an altar for the <span class="nd">Lord</span>, in order to stop the epidemic.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v10_24_22"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.24.22" class="v10_24_22">22</span>“Take it, Your Majesty,” Araunah said, “and offer to the <span class="nd">Lord</span> whatever you wish. Here are these oxen to burn as an offering on the altar; here are their yokes and the threshing boards to use as fuel.” </span><span class="v10_24_23"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.24.23" class="v10_24_23">23</span>Araunah gave it all to the king<a href="#fn" id="link_2Sam.24.23!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> and said to him, “May the <span class="nd">Lord</span> your God accept your offering.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v10_24_24"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.24.24" class="v10_24_24">24</span>But the king answered, “No, I will pay you for it. I will not offer to the <span class="nd">Lord</span> my God sacrifices that have cost me nothing.” And he bought the threshing place and the oxen for fifty pieces of silver. </span><span class="v10_24_25"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.24.25" class="v10_24_25">25</span>Then he built an altar to the <span class="nd">Lord</span> and offered burnt offerings and fellowship offerings. The <span class="nd">Lord</span> answered his prayer, and the epidemic in Israel was stopped.</span></p><a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">24.5: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Probable text </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Aroer … Gad; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Hebrew unclear.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">24.6: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">One ancient translation </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Kadesh, in Hittite territory; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Hebrew </char><char style="fq" closed="false">to the land of Tahtim, Hodshi.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">24.6: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Probable text </char><char style="fq" closed="false">and from Dan they went; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Hebrew unclear.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">24.13: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Some ancient translations (and see 1 Ch 21.12) </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Three; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Hebrew </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Seven.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">24.23: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Probable text </char><char style="fq" closed="false">to the king; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Hebrew </char><char style="fq" closed="false">to the king the king.</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 1992 American Bible Society. 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