Help QuickNav Adv. Options
NASB95

NASB95

Click to Change

Return to Top

Return to Top

Printer Icon

Print

Copy
Copy Options
Format by: Verse Paragraph
Strong's
Red Letter
Audio Bibles
Copy Options
Cite Print
The Blue Letter Bible

2 Samuel 24 :: New American Standard Bible 1995 (NASB95)

Choose a new font size and typeface
Audio Bibles

The Census Taken

(1Ch 21:1–6 )

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 24:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:1 - Now again the anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and it incited David against them to say, “Go, number Israel and Judah.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 24:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:2 - The king said to Joab the commander of the army who was with him, “Go about now through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan to Beersheba, and [fn]register the people, that I may know the number of the people.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 24:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:3 - But Joab said to the king, “Now may the LORD your God add to the people a hundred times as many as they are, while the eyes of my lord the king still see; but why does my lord the king delight in this thing?”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 24:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:4 - Nevertheless, the king’s word prevailed against Joab and against the commanders of the army. So Joab and the commanders of the army went out from the presence of the king to [fn]register the people of Israel.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 24:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:5 - They crossed the Jordan and camped in Aroer, on the right side of the city that is in the middle of the valley of Gad and toward Jazer.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 24:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:6 - Then they came to Gilead and to [fn]the land of Tahtim-hodshi, and they came to Dan-jaan and around to Sidon,

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 24:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:7 - and came to the fortress of Tyre and to all the cities of the Hivites and of the Canaanites, and they went out to the south of Judah, to Beersheba.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 24:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:8 - So when they had gone about through the whole land, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 24:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:9 - And Joab gave the number of the [fn]registration 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.
(1Ch 21:7–17 )

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 24:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:10 - Now David’s heart [fn]troubled him after he had numbered the people. So David said to the LORD, “I have sinned greatly in what I have done. But now, O LORD, please [fn]take away the iniquity of Your servant, for I have acted very foolishly.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 24:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:11 - When David arose in the morning, the word of the LORD came to the prophet Gad, David’s seer, saying,

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 24:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:12 - “Go and speak to David, ‘Thus the LORD says, “I am offering you three things; choose for yourself one of them, which I will do to you.”’”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 24:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:13 - 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 consider and see what answer I shall return to Him who sent me.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 24:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:14 - Then David said to Gad, “I am in great distress. Let us now fall into the hand of the LORD for His mercies are great, but do not let me fall into the hand of man.”

Pestilence Sent

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 24:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:15 - So the LORD [fn]sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning until the appointed time, and seventy thousand men of the people from Dan to Beersheba died.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 24:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:16 - When the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD relented from the calamity and said to the angel who destroyed the people, “It is enough! Now relax your hand!” And the angel of the LORD was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 24:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:17 - Then David spoke to the LORD when he saw the angel who was striking down the people, and said, “Behold, it is I who have sinned, and it is I who have done wrong; but these sheep, what have they done? Please let Your hand be against me and against my father’s house.”

David Builds an Altar

(1Ch 21:18–27 )

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 24:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:18 - So Gad came to David that day and said to him, “Go up, erect an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of [fn]Araunah the Jebusite.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 24:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:19 - David went up according to the word of Gad, just as the LORD had commanded.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 24:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:20 - Araunah looked down and saw the king and his servants crossing over toward him; and Araunah went out and bowed his face to the ground before the king.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 24:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:21 - Then Araunah said, “Why has my lord the king come to his servant?” And David said, “To buy the threshing floor from you, in order to build an altar to the LORD, that the plague may be held back from the people.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 24:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:22 - Araunah said to David, “Let my lord the king take and offer up what is good in his sight. Look, the oxen for the burnt offering, the threshing sledges and the yokes of the oxen for the wood.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 24:23

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:23 - “Everything, O king, Araunah gives to the king.” And Araunah said to the king, “May the LORD your God accept you.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 24:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:24 - However, the king said to Araunah, “No, but I will surely buy it from you for a price, for I will not offer burnt offerings to the LORD my God [fn]which cost me nothing.” So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 24:25

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:25 - David built there an altar to the LORD and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. Thus the LORD was moved by prayer for the land, and the plague was held back from Israel.
See the NASB95 Preface (Especially for Parenthesis, Brackets, & Asterisks).
NASB95 Footnotes
Literally: muster
Literally: muster
Or, Kadesh in the land of the Hittite
Literally: muster
Literally: smote
Literally: cause to pass away
Literally: gave
In 2 Chr 3:1, Ornan
Literally: gratuitously
NASB95

New American Standard Bible 1995
Copyright (c) 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995
by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif.
All rights reserved
https://www.lockman.org/new-american-standard-bible-nasb/

The "NASB," "NAS," "New American Standard Bible," and "New American Standard" trademarks are registered in the United States Patent and Trademark Office by The Lockman Foundation. Use of these trademarks requires the permission of The Lockman Foundation.

For Permission To Quote visit http://www.lockman.org

For more information on this translation, see the NASB95 Preface.

BLB Searches
Search the Bible
NASB95
  [?]

Advanced Options

Other Searches

Multi-Verse Retrieval
x
NASB95
Daily Devotionals
x

Blue Letter Bible offers several daily devotional readings in order to help you refocus on Christ and the Gospel of His peace and righteousness.

Daily Bible Reading Plans
x

Recognizing the value of consistent reflection upon the Word of God in order to refocus one's mind and heart upon Christ and His Gospel of peace, we provide several reading plans designed to cover the entire Bible in a year.

One-Year Plans

Two-Year Plan

2 Samuel Chapter 24 — Additional Translations:

King James Version New King James Version New Living Translation New International Version English Standard Version Christian Standard Bible New American Standard Bible 2020 Legacy Standard Bible Amplified Bible New English Translation Revised Standard Version American Standard Version Young's Literal Translation Darby Translation Webster's Bible Hebrew Names Version Latin Vulgate Westminster Leningrad Codex Septuagint Smith Van Dyck Arabic Bible Open New Arabic Version Brenton's English Septuagint Reina Valera 1909 Reina-Valera 1960 Bible in Basic English Chinese Traditional Union Espanol Moderno Korean Holy Bible Louis Segond German Luther Russian Synodal Translation Sagradas Escrituras