1 Chronicles 21 :: American Standard Version (ASV)

Census Brings Pestilence

(2Sa 24:1–25 )

1Ch 21:1And Satan stood up against Israel, and moved David to number Israel.

1Ch 21:2And David said to Joab and to the princes of the people, Go, number Israel from Beer-sheba even to Dan; and bring me word, that I may know the sum of them.

1Ch 21:3

1Ch 21:3And Joab said, Jehovah make his people a hundred times as many as they are: but, my lord the king, are they not all my lord’s servants? why doth my lord require this thing? why will he be a cause of guilt unto Israel?

1Ch 21:4

1Ch 21:4Nevertheless the king’s word prevailed against Joab. Wherefore Joab departed, and went throughout all Israel, and came to Jerusalem.

1Ch 21:5

1Ch 21:5And Joab gave up the sum of the numbering of the people unto David. And all they of Israel were a thousand thousand and a hundred thousand men that drew sword: and Judah was four hundred threescore and ten thousand men that drew sword.

1Ch 21:6

1Ch 21:6But Levi and Benjamin counted he not among them; for the king’s word was abominable to Joab.

1Ch 21:7

1Ch 21:7And God was displeased with this thing; therefore he smote Israel.

1Ch 21:8

1Ch 21:8And David said unto God, I have sinned greatly, in that I have done this thing: but now put away, I beseech thee, the iniquity of thy servant; for I have done very foolishly.

1Ch 21:9

1Ch 21:9And Jehovah spake unto Gad, David’s seer, saying,

1Ch 21:10

1Ch 21:10Go and speak unto David, saying, Thus saith Jehovah, I offer thee three things: choose thee one of them, that I may do it unto thee.

1Ch 21:11

1Ch 21:11So Gad came to David, and said unto him, Thus saith Jehovah, Take which thou wilt:

1Ch 21:12

1Ch 21:12either three years of famine; or three months to be consumed before thy foes, while the sword of thine enemies overtaketh thee; or else three days the sword of Jehovah, even pestilence in the land, and the angel of Jehovah destroying throughout all the borders of Israel. Now therefore consider what answer I shall return to him that sent me.

1Ch 21:13

1Ch 21:13And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let me fall, I pray, into the hand of Jehovah; for very great are his mercies: and let me not fall into the hand of man.

1Ch 21:14

1Ch 21:14So Jehovah sent a pestilence upon Israel; and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men.

1Ch 21:15

1Ch 21:15And God sent an angel unto Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he was about to destroy, Jehovah beheld, and he repented him of the evil, and said to the destroying angel, It is enough; now stay thy hand. And the angel of Jehovah was standing by the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

1Ch 21:16

1Ch 21:16And David lifted up his eyes, and saw the angel of Jehovah standing between earth and heaven, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell upon their faces.

1Ch 21:17

1Ch 21:17And David said unto God, Is it not I that commanded the people to be numbered? even I it is that have sinned and done very wickedly; but these sheep, what have they done? let thy hand, I pray thee, O Jehovah my God, be against me, and against my father’s house; but not against thy people, that they should be plagued.

David's Altar

1Ch 21:18

1Ch 21:18Then the angel of Jehovah commanded Gad to say to David, that David should go up, and rear an altar unto Jehovah in the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

1Ch 21:19

1Ch 21:19And David went up at the saying of Gad, which he spake in the name of Jehovah.

1Ch 21:20

1Ch 21:20And Ornan turned back, and saw the angel; and his four sons that were with him hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat.

1Ch 21:21

1Ch 21:21And as David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David, and went out of the threshing-floor, and bowed himself to David with his face to the ground.

1Ch 21:22

1Ch 21:22Then David said to Ornan, Give me the place of this threshing-floor, that I may build thereon an altar unto Jehovah: for the full price shalt thou give it me, that the plague may be stayed from the people.

1Ch 21:23

1Ch 21:23And Ornan said unto David, Take it to thee, and let my lord the king do that which is good in his eyes: lo, I give thee the oxen for burnt-offerings, and the threshing instruments for wood, and the wheat for the meal-offering; I give it all.

1Ch 21:24

1Ch 21:24And king David said to Ornan, Nay; but I will verily buy it for the full price: for I will not take that which is thine for Jehovah, nor offer a burnt-offering without cost.

1Ch 21:25

1Ch 21:25So David gave to Ornan for the place six hundred shekels of gold by weight.

1Ch 21:26

1Ch 21:26And David built there an altar unto Jehovah, and offered burnt-offerings and peace-offerings, and called upon Jehovah; and he answered him from heaven by fire upon the altar of burnt-offering.

1Ch 21:27

1Ch 21:27And Jehovah commanded the angel; and he put up his sword again into the sheath thereof.

1Ch 21:28

1Ch 21:28At that time, when David saw that Jehovah had answered him in the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite, then he sacrificed there.

1Ch 21:29

1Ch 21:29For the tabernacle of Jehovah, which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of burnt-offering, were at that time in the high place at Gibeon.

1Ch 21:30

1Ch 21:30But David could not go before it to inquire of God; for he was afraid because of the sword of the angel of Jehovah.

Thomas Nelson & Sons first published the American Standard Version in 1901. This translation of the Bible is in the public domain.

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Census Brings Pestilence

David's Altar

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