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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 Literal Standard Version</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" /></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><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="../topmenuchap/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="../">LSV</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 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="../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 class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Literal Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/1_chronicles/21-1.htm#aramaic" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/21-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Then Satan stands up against Israel, and persuades David to number Israel, <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/21-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>and David says to Joab and to the heads of the people, “Go, number Israel from Beer-Sheba even to Dan, and bring [the account] to me, and I know their number.” <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/21-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And Joab says, “YHWH adds to His people as they are one hundred times; are they not, my lord, O king, all of them for servants to my lord? Why does my lord seek this? Why is he for a cause of guilt to Israel?” <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/21-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And the word of the king [is] severe against Joab, and Joab goes out, and goes up and down in all Israel, and comes to Jerusalem. <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/21-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And Joab gives the account of the numbering of the people to David, and all Israel is one million and one hundred thousand, each drawing sword, and Judah [is] four hundred and seventy thousand, each drawing sword. <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/21-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And he has not numbered Levi and Benjamin in their midst, for the word of the king was abominable with Joab.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/21-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And it is evil in the eyes of God concerning this thing, and He strikes Israel, <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/21-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>and David says to God, “I have sinned exceedingly in that I have done this thing; and now, please cause the iniquity of Your servant to pass away, for I have acted very foolishly.”<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/21-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And YHWH speaks to Gad, seer of David, saying, <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/21-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>“Go, and you have spoken to David, saying, Thus said YHWH: I am extending three [choices] to you; choose one of these for yourself, and I do [it] to you.” <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/21-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And Gad comes to David and says to him, “Thus said YHWH: Take for yourself— <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/21-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>either famine for three years, or three months to be consumed from the face of your adversaries (even [for] the sword of your enemies to overtake), or three days of the sword of YHWH (even pestilence in the land, and a messenger of YHWH destroying in all the border of Israel); and now, see; what word do I return to Him who is sending me?” <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/21-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And David says to Gad, “I am greatly distressed, please let me fall into the hand of YHWH, for His mercies [are] very many, and do not let me fall into the hand of man.”<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/21-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And YHWH gives a pestilence in Israel, and there falls from Israel seventy thousand men, <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/21-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>and God sends a messenger to Jerusalem to destroy it, and as he is destroying, YHWH has seen, and is comforted concerning the calamity, and says to the messenger who [is] destroying, “Enough now, cease your hand.” And the messenger of YHWH is standing by the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite, <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/21-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>and David lifts up his eyes, and sees the messenger of YHWH standing between the earth and the heavens, and his sword [is] drawn in his hand, stretched out over Jerusalem, and David falls, and the elderly, covered with sackcloth, on their faces. <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/21-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And David says to God, “Did I not command to number the people? Indeed, it [is] I who have sinned, and done great evil: and these, the flock, what did they do? O YHWH, my God, please let Your hand be on me, and on the house of my father, and not on Your people—to be plagued.”<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/21-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And the messenger of YHWH commanded to Gad to say to David, “Surely David goes up to raise an altar to YHWH in 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>And David goes up by the word of Gad, that he spoke in the Name of YHWH. <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/21-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And Ornan turns back and sees the messenger, and his four sons [are] with him hiding themselves, and Ornan is threshing wheat. <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/21-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And David comes to Ornan, and Ornan looks attentively and sees David, and goes out from the threshing-floor, and bows himself to David—face to the earth. <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/21-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And David says to Ornan, “Give the place of the threshing-floor to me, and I build an altar to YHWH in it; give it to me for full price, and the plague is restrained from the people.” <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/21-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>And Ornan says to David, “Take [it] to yourself, and my lord the king does that which is good in his eyes; see, I have given the oxen for burnt-offerings, and the threshing instruments for wood, and the wheat for a present; I have given the whole.” <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/21-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>And King David says to Ornan, “No, for I surely buy [it] for full price; for I do not lift up that which is yours to YHWH, so as to offer a burnt-offering without cost.” <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/21-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And David gives to Ornan six hundred shekels of gold [in] weight for the place; <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/21-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>and David builds an altar to YHWH there, and offers burnt-offerings and peace-offerings, and calls to YHWH, and He answers him from the heavens with fire on the altar of the burnt-offering. <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/21-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>And YHWH speaks to the messenger, and he turns back his sword to its sheath.<p> <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/21-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>At that time, when David sees that YHWH has answered him in the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite, then he sacrifices there; <A name="30"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/21-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>and the Dwelling Place of YHWH that Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of the burnt-offering, [are] at that time at a high place in Gibeon; <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/21-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>and David is not able to go before it to seek God, for he has been afraid because of the sword of the messenger of YHWH.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Literal Standard Version<br>Copyright © 2022 by Covenant Press. 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