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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=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/><title>2 Samuel 24 ISV</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><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="../">ISV</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"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">International Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/isv/esv/2_samuel/24.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="heading">David Takes a Census of Israel</p><p class="cross_ref">(<a href="http://isv.scripturetext.com/1_chronicles/21.htm">1 Chronicles 21:1-6</a>)</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/24-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Later, God’s anger blazed forth against Israel, so he incited David to move against them by telling him, “Go take a census of Israel and Judah.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/24-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>So the king ordered Joab, commander of the special forces, who was with him, “Go throughout the tribes of Israel from Dan to Beer-sheba and take a census of the people so I can be made aware of the total number.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/24-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>But Joab replied, “May the LORD your God increase the population of the people a hundredfold while your majesty the king is still alive to see it happen! But why does your majesty the king want to do this?”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/24-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>But the king’s order overruled Joab and the commanders of the special forces, so Joab and the commanders of the special forces left David’s presence to take a census of the people of Israel. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/24-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>They crossed the Jordan River,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="24:5 The Heb. lacks River">a</a></span> encamped at Aroer south of the town that is located in the river valley, proceeding through Gad and then on toward Jazer. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/24-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>They went on to Gilead and the territory of Tahtim-hodshi, then on toward Dan. From Dan they went around to Sidon <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/24-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>and arrived at the fortified city of Tyre and all of the towns of the Hivites and Canaanites.</p> <p class="reg">Eventually they proceeded to Beer-sheba in the Judean Negev.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="24:7 i.e. southern regions of the Sinai peninsula; cf. Josh 10:40">b</a></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/24-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>After they had traveled throughout the entire land, they returned to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and 20 days. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/24-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Joab reported the total number of men to the king. In Israel there were 800,000 men trained for war.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="24:9 Lit. men in wielding a sword">c</a></span> In Judah there were 500,000.</p> <p class="heading">Discipline for David’s Sin</p><p class="cross_ref">(<a href="http://isv.scripturetext.com/1_chronicles/21.htm">1 Chronicles 21:7-17</a>)</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/24-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Later, David’s conscience bothered<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="24:10 Lit. David’s heart struck">d</a></span> him after he had numbered the army,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="24:10 Lit. people">e</a></span> so David told the LORD, “I have sinned greatly by what I did. But now I am asking you, please remove the guilt of your servant, since I have acted very foolishly.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/24-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Before David arose the next morning, this message from the LORD came to Gad, David’s seer: <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/24-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>“Go tell David, ‘This is what the LORD says: “I’m holding three choices out for you: pick one of them for yourself, and I will do it to you.”’”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/24-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>So Gad went to David and asked him, “Shall seven years of famine come to your land, or three months of reversals<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="24:13 Or destruction">f</a></span> while you flee from your enemies as they pursue you, or three days of pestilence in your land? Decide right now what I am to answer to the one who sent me.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/24-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>So David replied to Gad, “This is a very difficult choice for me to make! Let me now please fall into the hand of the LORD, since his mercy is very great, but may I never fall into human hands!”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/24-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>That very morning, the LORD sent a pestilence to Israel until the conclusion of the time designated, and 70,000 men<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="24:15 Or soldiers">g</a></span> died from Dan to Beer-sheba. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/24-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>As the angel was stretching out his hand to destroy Jerusalem, the LORD was grieved because of the calamity, so he told the angel who was afflicting the people, “Enough! Stay your hand!” So the angel of the LORD remained near the threshing floor that belonged to Araunah<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="24:16 Araunah was also known as Ornan; cf. 1Chr 21:15">h</a></span> the Jebusite.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="24:16 i.e. a descendant of Canaan’s third son (cf. Gen 10:15-16), Jebusites were native to Jebus, the ancient name of the city of Jerusalem">i</a></span> </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/24-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>When David saw the angel who had been attacking the people, he told the LORD, “Look, I’m the one who has sinned! I did the evil. These are only sheep! What did they do? Please, let your hand fall on me and on my household!”</p> <p class="heading">David Buys Araunah’s Threshing Floor</p><p class="cross_ref">(<a href="http://isv.scripturetext.com/1_chronicles/21.htm">1 Chronicles 21:18-27</a>)</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/24-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>That very day, Gad approached David and told him, “Go up and build an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor that belongs to Araunah the Jebusite.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/24-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>So David went up, just as Gad had ordered, consistent with the LORD’s command.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/24-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>When Araunah looked down, he saw the king and his staff approaching him. Araunah went out, bowed down before the king with his face on the ground, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/24-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>and asked<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="24:21 Lit. and Araunah said">j</a></span> him, “Why has your majesty the king come to his servant?”</p> <p class="reg">David replied, “To purchase your threshing floor and to build an altar to the LORD, so the pestilence can be averted from the people.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/24-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Araunah responded to David, “May your majesty the king take it and offer whatever pleases him. Here are oxen for a burnt offering, along with the threshing sledges and yokes from the oxen for wood! <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/24-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Your majesty, Araunah gives all of this<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="24:23 The Heb. lacks of this">k</a></span> to the king.” Araunah also told the king, “May the LORD your God be pleased with you!”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/24-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>“No!” the king replied to Araunah. “I will buy them from you at full<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="24:24 The Heb. lacks full">l</a></span> price. I won’t offer to the LORD my God burnt offerings that cost me nothing.” So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for 50 silver shekels,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="24:24 i.e. about one and one quarter pounds at 0.4 shekels per ounce">m</a></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/24-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>built<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="24:25 Lit. David built">n</a></span> an altar to the LORD there, and presented burnt offerings and peace offerings. So the LORD answered David’s prayers for the land<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="24:25 Cf. 2Sam 21:14">o</a></span> and the pestilence on Israel was averted.</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="ftn"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn1"><span class="fnb">a</span> 24:5 The Heb. lacks <i>River</i><br /><span class="fnb">b</span> 24:7 i.e. southern regions of the Sinai peninsula; cf. Josh 10:40<br /><span class="fnb">c</span> 24:9 Lit. <i>men in wielding a sword</i><br /><span class="fnb">d</span> 24:10 Lit. <i>David’s heart struck</i><br /><span class="fnb">e</span> 24:10 Lit. <i>people</i><br /><span class="fnb">f</span> 24:13 Or <i>destruction</i><br /><span class="fnb">g</span> 24:15 Or <i>soldiers</i><br /><span class="fnb">h</span> 24:16 Araunah was also known as Ornan; cf. 1Chr 21:15<br /><span class="fnb">i</span> 24:16 i.e. a descendant of Canaan’s third son (cf. 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