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1 Chronicles 21 :: New American Standard Bible 1995 (NASB95)

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Census Brings Pestilence

(2Sa 24:1–25 )
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:1 - Then Satan stood up against Israel and moved David to number Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:2 - So David said to Joab and to the princes of the people, “Go, number Israel from Beersheba even to Dan, and bring me word that I may know their number.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:3 - Joab said, “May the LORD add to His people a hundred times as many as they are! But, my lord the king, are they not all my lord’s servants? Why does my lord seek this thing? Why should he be a cause of guilt to Israel?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:4 - Nevertheless, the king’s word prevailed against Joab. Therefore, Joab departed and went throughout all Israel, and came to Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:5 - Joab gave the number of the [fn]census of all the people to David. And all Israel were 1,100,000 men who drew the sword; and Judah was 470,000 men who drew the sword.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:6 - But he did not [fn]number Levi and Benjamin among them, for the king’s [fn]command was abhorrent to Joab.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:7 - [fn]God was displeased with this thing, so He struck Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:8 - David said to God, “I have sinned greatly, in that I have done this thing. But now, please take away the iniquity of Your servant, for I have done very foolishly.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:9 - The LORD spoke to Gad, David’s seer, saying,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:10 - “Go and speak to David, saying, ‘Thus says the LORD, “I [fn]offer you three things; choose for yourself one of them, which I will do to you.”’”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:11 - So Gad came to David and said to him, “Thus says the LORD, ‘Take for yourself
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:12 - either three years of famine, or three months to be swept away before your foes, while the sword of your enemies overtakes you, or else three days of the sword of the LORD, even pestilence in the land, and the angel of the LORD destroying throughout all the territory of Israel.’ Now, therefore, consider what answer I shall return to Him who sent me.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:13 - David said to Gad, “I am in great distress; please let me fall into the hand of the LORD, for His mercies are very great. But do not let me fall into the hand of man.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:14 - So the LORD [fn]sent a pestilence on Israel; 70,000 men of Israel fell.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:15 - And God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it; but as he was about to destroy it, the LORD saw and was sorry over the calamity, and said to the destroying angel, “It is enough; now relax your hand.” And the angel of the LORD was standing by the threshing floor of [fn]Ornan the Jebusite.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:16 - Then David lifted up his eyes and saw the angel of the LORD standing between earth and heaven, with his drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, covered with sackcloth, fell on their faces.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:17 - David said to God, “Is it not I who [fn]commanded to count the people? Indeed, I am the one who has sinned and done very wickedly, but these sheep, what have they done? O LORD my God, please let Your hand be against me and my father’s household, but not against Your people that they should be plagued.”

David's Altar

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:18 - Then the angel of the LORD [fn]commanded Gad to say to David, that David should go up and build an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:19 - So David went up at the word of Gad, which he spoke in the name of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:20 - Now Ornan turned back and saw the angel, and his four sons who were with him hid themselves. And Ornan was threshing wheat.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:21 - As David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David, and went out from the threshing floor and prostrated himself [fn]before David with his face to the ground.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:22 - Then David said to Ornan, “Give me the [fn]site of this threshing floor, that I may build on it an altar to the LORD; for the full price you shall give it to me, that the plague may be restrained from the people.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:23 - Ornan said to David, “Take it for yourself; and let my lord the king do what is good in his sight. See, I will give the oxen for burnt offerings and the threshing sledges for wood and the wheat for the grain offering; I will give it all.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:24 - But King David said to Ornan, “No, but I will surely buy it for the full price; for I will not take what is yours for the LORD, or offer a burnt offering [fn]which costs me nothing.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:25 - So David gave Ornan 600 shekels of gold by weight for the [fn]site.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:26 - Then David built an altar to the LORD there and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. And he called to the LORD and He answered him with fire from heaven on the altar of burnt offering.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:27 - The LORD commanded the angel, and he put his sword back in its sheath.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:28 - At that time, when David saw that the LORD had answered him on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, he offered sacrifice there.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:29 - For the tabernacle of the LORD, which Moses had made in the wilderness, and the altar of burnt offering were in the high place at Gibeon at that time.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:30 - But David could not go before it to inquire of God, for he was terrified by the sword of the angel of the LORD.
NASB95 Footnotes
Literally: muster
Literally: muster
Literally: word
Literally: it was evil in the sight of God
Literally: stretch out to
Literally: gave
In 2 Sam 24:16, Araunah
Literally: said
Literally: said to
Literally: to
Literally: place
Literally: gratuitously
Literally: place
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