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But why does my lord the king delight in this thing?" <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/24-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Notwithstanding, the king's word prevailed against Joab, and against the captains of the army. Joab and the captains of the army went out from the presence of the king, to number the people of Israel. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/24-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>They passed over the Jordan, and encamped in Aroer, on the right side of the city that is in the middle of the valley of Gad, and to Jazer: <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/24-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>then they came to Gilead, and to the land of Tahtim Hodshi; and they came to Dan Jaan, and around to Sidon, <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/24-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>and came to the stronghold of Tyre, and to all the cities of the Hivites, and of the Canaanites; and they went out to the south of Judah, at Beersheba. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/24-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>So when they had gone back and forth through all the land, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/24-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Joab gave up the sum of the numbering of the people to the king: and there were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men who drew the sword; and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand men.</p> <a name="10" id="10"></a><p class="hdg">Judgment for David's Sin<br /><p class="cross">(<a href="../1_chronicles/21.htm#7">1 Chronicles 21:7-13</a>)</p></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/24-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>David's heart struck him after that he had numbered the people. David said to Yahweh, "I have sinned greatly in that which I have done. But now, Yahweh, put away, I beg you, the iniquity of your servant; for I have done very foolishly." <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/24-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>When David rose up in the morning, the word of Yahweh came to the prophet Gad, David's seer, saying, <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/24-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>"Go and speak to David, 'Thus says Yahweh, "I offer you three things. Choose one of them, that I may do it to you."'" <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/24-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>So Gad came to David, and told him, and said to him, "Shall seven years of famine come to you in your land? Or will you flee three months before your foes while they pursue you? Or shall there be three days' pestilence in your land? Now answer, and consider what answer I shall return to him who sent me." <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/24-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>David said to Gad, "I am in distress. Let us fall now into the hand of Yahweh; for his mercies are great. Let me not fall into the hand of man."</p> <p class="hdg">Pestilence Sent</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/24-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>So Yahweh sent a pestilence on Israel from the morning even to the appointed time; and there died of the people from Dan even to Beersheba seventy thousand men. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/24-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>When the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, Yahweh relented of the disaster, and said to the angel who destroyed the people, "It is enough. Now stay your hand." The angel of Yahweh was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/24-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>David spoke to Yahweh when he saw the angel who struck the people, and said, "Behold, I have sinned, and I have done perversely; but these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand be against me, and against my father's house."</p> <a name="18" id="18"></a><p class="hdg">David Builds an Altar<br /><p class="cross">(<a href="../1_chronicles/21.htm#18">1 Chronicles 21:18-30</a>)</p></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/24-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Gad came that day to David, and said to him, "Go up, build an altar to Yahweh on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite." <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/24-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>David went up according to the saying of Gad, as Yahweh commanded. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/24-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Araunah looked out, and saw the king and his servants coming on toward him. Then Araunah went out, and bowed himself before the king with his face to the ground. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/24-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Araunah said, "Why has my lord the king come to his servant?" David said, "To buy your threshing floor, to build an altar to Yahweh, that the plague may be stopped from afflicting the people." <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/24-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Araunah said to David, "Let my lord the king take and offer up what seems good to him. Behold, the cattle for the burnt offering, and the threshing instruments and the yokes of the oxen for the wood: <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/24-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>all this, king, does Araunah give to the king." Araunah said to the king, "May Yahweh your God accept you." <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/24-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>The king said to Araunah, "No; but I will most certainly buy it from you for a price. I will not offer burnt offerings to Yahweh my God which cost me nothing." So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/24-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>David built an altar to Yahweh there, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. So Yahweh was entreated for the land, and the plague was stayed from Israel.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The World English Bible is a 1997 revision of the American Standard Version of the Holy Bible, first published in 1901. It is in the Public Domain. Please feel free to copy and distribute it freely. Thank you to Michael Paul Johnson for making this work available. 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