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1 Chronicles 21 :: Brenton's English Septuagint (BES)

1Ch 21:1And the devil stood up against Israel, and moved David to number Israel.
1Ch 21:2And king David said to Joab and to the captains of the forces, Go, number Israel from Bersabee even to Dan, and bring me the account, and I shall know their number.
1Ch 21:3And Joab said, May the Lord add to his people, a hundred-fold as many as they are, and let the eyes of my lord the king see it: all are the servants of my lord. Why does my lord seek this thing? do it not, lest it become a sin to Israel.
1Ch 21:4Nevertheless the king's word prevailed against Joab; and Joab went out and passed through all Israel, and came to Jerusalem.
1Ch 21:5And Joab gave the number of the mustering of the people to David: and all Israel was a million and a hundred thousand men that drew sword: and the sons of Juda were four hundred and seventy thousand men that drew sword.
1Ch 21:6But he numbered not Levi and Benjamin among them; for the word of the king was painful to Joab.
1Ch 21:7And there was evil in the sight of the Lord respecting this thing; and he smote Israel.
1Ch 21:8And David said to God, I have sinned exceedingly, in that I have done this thing: and now, I pray thee, remove the sin of thy servant; for I have been exceedingly foolish.
1Ch 21:9And the Lord spoke to Gad the seer, saying,
1Ch 21:10Go and speak to David, saying, Thus saith the Lord, I bring three things upon thee: choose one of them for thyself, and I will do it to thee.
1Ch 21:11And Gad came to David, and said to him, Thus saith the Lord, Choose for thyself,
1Ch 21:12either three years of famine, or that thou shouldest flee three months from the face of thine enemies, and the sword of thine enemies shall be employed to destroy thee, or that the sword of the Lord and pestilence should be three days in the land, and the angel of the Lord shall be destroying in all the inheritance of Israel. And now consider what I shall answer to him that sent the message.
1Ch 21:13And David said to Gad, They are very hard for me, even all the three: let me fall now into the hands of the Lord, for his mercies are very abundant, and let me not fall by any means into the hands of man.
1Ch 21:14So the Lord brought pestilence upon Israel: and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men.
1Ch 21:15And God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he was destroying, the Lord saw, and repented for the evil, and said to the angel that was destroying, Let it suffice thee; withhold thine hand. And the angel of the Lord stood by the threshing-floor of Orna the Jebusite.
1Ch 21:16And David lifted up his eyes, and saw the angel of the Lord, standing between the earth and the heaven, and his sword drawn in his hand, stretched out over Jerusalem: and David and the elders clothed in sackcloth, fell upon their faces.
1Ch 21:17And David said to God, Was it not I that gave orders to number the people? and I am the guilty one; I have greatly sinned: but these sheep, what have they done? O Lord God, let thy hand be upon me, and upon my father's house, and not on thy people for destruction, O Lord!
1Ch 21:18And the angel of the Lord told Gad to tell David, that he should go up to erect an altar to the Lord, in the threshing-floor of Orna the Jebusite.
1Ch 21:19And David went up according to the word of Gad, which he spoke in the name of the Lord.
1Ch 21:20And Orna turned and saw the king; and he hid himself and his four sons with him. Now Orna was threshing wheat.
1Ch 21:21And David came to Orna; and Orna came forth from the threshing-floor, and did obeisance to David with his face to the ground.
1Ch 21:22And David said to Orna, Give me thy place of the threshing-floor, and I will build upon it an altar to the Lord: give it me for its worth in money, and the plague shall cease from among the people.
1Ch 21:23And Orna said to David, Take it to thyself, and let my lord the king do what is right in his eyes: see, I have given the calves for a whole-burnt-offering, and the plough for wood, and the corn for a meat-offering; I have given all.
1Ch 21:24And king David said to Orna, Nay; for I will surely buy it for its worth in money: for I will not take thy property for the Lord, to offer a whole-burnt-offering to the Lord without cost to myself.
1Ch 21:25And David gave to Orna for his place six hundred shekels of gold by weight.
1Ch 21:26And David built there an altar to the Lord, and offered up whole-burnt-offerings and peace-offerings: and he cried to the Lord, and he answered him by fire out of heaven on the altar of whole-burnt-offerings, and it consumed the whole-burnt-offering.
1Ch 21:27And the Lord spoke to the angel; and he put up the sword into its sheath.
1Ch 21:28At that time when David saw that the Lord answered him in the threshing-floor of Orna the Jebusite, he also sacrificed there.
1Ch 21:29And the tabernacle of the Lord which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of whole-burnt-offerings, were at that time in the high place at Gabaon.
1Ch 21:30And David could not go before it to enquire of God; for he hasted not because of the sword of the angel of the Lord.
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Translation of the Greek Septuagint into English by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton, originally published in 1851 and is now in the Public Domain

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