10_2SA_24_01 And again the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel , And he moved David against them to say , go , number Israel And Judah .
10_2SA_24_02 for the king said to Joab the captain of the host , which [ was ] with him , go now through all the tribes of Israel , from Dan even to Beersheba , And number ye the people , that I may know the number of the people .
10_2SA_24_03 And Joab said unto the king , now the LORD thy God add unto the people , how Many soever they be , an hundredfold , And that the eyes of my LORD the king may see [ it ] : but why Doth my LORD the king delight in this thing ?
10_2SA_24_04 Notwithstanding the king's word prevailed against Joab , And against the captains of the host . And Joab And the captains of the host went out from the presence of the king , to number the people of Israel .
10_2SA_24_05 And they passed over Jordan , And pitched in Aroer , on the right side of the city that [ lieth ] in the midst of the river of Gad , And toward Jazer :
10_2SA_24_06 Then they came to Gilead , And to the land of Tahtimhodshi ; And they came to Danjaan , And about to Zidon ,
10_2SA_24_07 And came to the strong hold of Tyre , And to all the cities of the Hivites , And of the Canaanites : And they went out to the south of Judah , [ even ] to Beersheba .
10_2SA_24_08 So when they had gone through all the land , they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months And twenty days .
10_2SA_24_09 And Joab gave up the sum of the number of the people unto the king : And there were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men that drew the sword ; And the men of Judah [ were ] five hundred thousand men .
10_2SA_24_10 And David's heart smote him after that he had numbered the people . And David said unto the LORD , I have sinned greatly in that I have done : And now , I beseech thee , O LORD , take away the iniquity of thy servant ; for I have done very foolishly .
10_2SA_24_11 for when David was up in the morning , the word of the LORD came unto the prophet Gad , David's seer , saying ,
10_2SA_24_12 go And say unto David , thus saith the LORD , I offer thee three [ things ] ; Choose thee one of them , that I may [ do it ] unto thee .
10_2SA_24_13 So Gad came to David , And told him , And said unto him , shall seven years of famine come unto thee in thy land ? or Wilt thou flee three months before thine enemies , while they pursue thee ? or that there be three days' pestilence in thy land ? now advise , And see what answer I shall Return to him that sent me .
10_2SA_24_14 And David said unto Gad , I am in A great strait : let us fall now into the hand of the LORD ; for his mercies [ are ] great : And let me not fall into the hand of man .
10_2SA_24_15 So the LORD sent A pestilence upon Israel from the morning even to the time appointed : And there died of the people from Dan even to Beersheba seventy thousand men .
10_2SA_24_16 And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it , the LORD repented him of the evil , And said to the angel that destroyed the people , it Is enough : stay now thine hand . And the angel of the LORD was by the threshingplace of Araunah the Jebusite .
10_2SA_24_17 And David spake unto the LORD when he saw the angel that smote the people , And said , Lo , I have sinned , And I have done wickedly : but These sheep , what have they done ? let thine hand , I pray thee , be against me , And against my father's house .
10_2SA_24_18 And Gad came that day to David , And said unto him , go up , rear an altar unto the LORD in the threshingfloor of Araunah the Jebusite .
10_2SA_24_19 And David , according to the saying of Gad , went up as the LORD commanded .
10_2SA_24_20 And Araunah looked , And saw the king And his servants coming on toward him : And Araunah went out , And bowed himself before the king on his face upon the ground .
10_2SA_24_21 And Araunah said , Wherefore Is my LORD the king come to his servant ? And David said , to buy the threshingfloor of thee , to build an altar unto the LORD , that the plague may be stayed from the people .
10_2SA_24_22 And Araunah said unto David , let my LORD the king take And offer up what [ seemeth ] good unto him : behold , [ here be ] oxen for burnt sacrifice , And threshing instruments And [ other ] instruments of the oxen for wood .
10_2SA_24_23 all These [ things ] did Araunah , [ as ] A king , give unto the king . And Araunah said unto the king , the LORD thy God accept thee .
10_2SA_24_24 And the king said unto Araunah , Nay ; but I will surely buy [ it ] of thee at A price : neither will I offer burnt offerings unto the LORD my God of that which Doth cost me nothing . So David bought the threshingfloor And the oxen for fifty shekels of silver .
10_2SA_24_25 And David built there an altar unto the LORD , And offered burnt offerings And peace offerings . So the LORD was entreated for the land , And the plague was stayed from Israel .