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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 New American 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" /></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="/bmcc/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/catholic">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NABRE</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">New American Bible Revised Edition</td><td width="1%" valign="top"></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><section id="ch10024" class="chapter"> <h1 id="cn10024" class="cn"></h1> <p class="pf"><span class="hemb">David’s Census; the Plague.</span> <span id="v10024001" class="ver">1</span>The <span class="tetr">Lord</span>’s anger against Israel flared again,<a id="ren10024001-a" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en10024001-a">a</a> and he incited David against them: “Go, take a census of Israel and Judah.” <span id="v10024002" class="ver">2</span>The king therefore said to Joab and the leaders of the army who were with him, “Tour all the tribes of Israel from Dan to Beer-sheba and register the people, that I may know their number.” <span id="v10024003" class="ver">3</span>But Joab replied to the king: “May the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> your God increase the number of people a hundredfold for my lord the king to see it with his own eyes. But why does it please my lord to do a thing of this kind?” <span id="v10024004" class="ver">4</span>However, the king’s command prevailed over Joab and the leaders of the army, so they left the king’s presence in order to register the people of Israel. <span id="v10024005" class="ver">5</span>Crossing the Jordan, they began near Aroer, south of the city in the wadi, and turned in the direction of Gad toward Jazer. <span id="v10024006" class="ver">6</span>They continued on to Gilead and to the district below Mount Hermon. Then they proceeded to Dan; from there they turned toward Sidon, <span id="v10024007" class="ver">7</span>going to the fortress of Tyre and to all the cities of the Hivites and Canaanites, and ending up in the Negeb of Judah, at Beer-sheba. <span id="v10024008" class="ver">8</span>Thus they toured the whole land, reaching Jerusalem again after nine months and twenty days. <span id="v10024009" class="ver">9</span>Joab then reported the census figures to the king: of men capable of wielding a sword, there were in Israel eight hundred thousand, and in Judah five hundred thousand.</p> <p><span id="v10024010" class="ver">10</span>Afterward, however, David regretted having numbered the people. David said to the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>: “I have sinned grievously in what I have done.<a id="ren10024010-b" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en10024010-b">b</a> Take away, <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, your servant’s guilt, for I have acted very foolishly.”<a id="rfn10024010-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn10024010-1">*</a> <span id="v10024011" class="ver">11</span>When David rose in the morning, the word of the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> came to the prophet Gad, David’s seer, saying: <span id="v10024012" class="ver">12</span>Go, tell David: Thus says the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>: I am offering you three options; choose one of them, and I will give you that. <span id="v10024013" class="ver">13</span>Gad then went to David to inform him. He asked: “Should three years of famine come upon your land; or three months of fleeing from your enemy while he pursues you; or is it to be three days of plague in your land? Now consider well: what answer am I to give to him who sent me?”<a id="ren10024013-c" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en10024013-c">c</a> <span id="v10024014" class="ver">14</span>David answered Gad: “I am greatly distressed. But let us fall into the hand of God, whose mercy is great, rather than into human hands.” <span id="v10024015" class="ver">15</span>Thus David chose the plague. At the time of the wheat harvest it broke out among the people. The <span class="tetr">Lord</span> sent plague over Israel from morning until the time appointed, and from Dan to Beer-sheba seventy thousand of the people died. <span id="v10024016" class="ver">16</span>But when the angel stretched forth his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> changed his mind about the calamity, and said to the angel causing the destruction among the people: Enough now! Stay your hand.<a id="ren10024016-d" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en10024016-d">d</a> The angel of the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> was then standing at the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.<a id="ren10024016-e" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en10024016-e">e</a> <span id="v10024017" class="ver">17</span>When David saw the angel who was striking the people, he said to the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>: “It is I who have sinned; it is I, the shepherd, who have done wrong. But these sheep, what have they done? Strike me and my father’s family!”</p> <p class="psec"><span class="hemb">David Offers Sacrifices.</span> <span id="v10024018" class="ver">18</span>On the same day Gad went to David and said to him, “Go and set up an altar to the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.” <span id="v10024019" class="ver">19</span>According to Gad’s word, David went up as the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> had commanded. <span id="v10024020" class="ver">20</span>Now Araunah looked down and saw the king and his servants coming toward him while he was threshing wheat. So he went out and bowed down before the king, his face to the ground. <span id="v10024021" class="ver">21</span>Then Araunah asked, “Why does my lord the king come to his servant?” David replied, “To buy the threshing floor from you, to build an altar to the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, that the plague may be withdrawn from the people.” <span id="v10024022" class="ver">22</span><a id="ren10024022-f" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en10024022-f">f</a> But Araunah said to David: “Let my lord the king take it and offer up what is good in his sight. See, here are the oxen for burnt offerings, and the threshing sledges and the yokes of oxen for wood. <span id="v10024023" class="ver">23</span>All this does Araunah give to the king.” Araunah then said to the king, “May the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> your God accept your offering.” <span id="v10024024" class="ver">24</span>The king, however, replied to Araunah, “No, I will buy it from you at the proper price, for I cannot sacrifice to the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> my God burnt offerings that cost me nothing.” So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty silver shekels. <span id="v10024025" class="ver">25</span>Then David built an altar to the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> there, and sacrificed burnt offerings and communion offerings. The <span class="tetr">Lord</span> granted relief to the land, and the plague was withdrawn from Israel.</p> </section> <br /><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="intro.htm"><span class="ac">Book Introduction</span></a></h1><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="footnotes.htm"><span class="ac">Footnotes</span></a></h1></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture texts, prefaces, introductions, footnotes and cross references used in this work are taken from the <i>New American Bible, revised edition</i> © 2010, 1991, 1986, 1970 Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Inc., Washington, DC All Rights Reserved. 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