Holy Bible
(King James Version)
Second
Samuel: Chapter 24
1. AND again the anger of
the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he moved David against them to
say, Go, number Israel and Judah.
2. 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 Beer-sheba,
and number ye the people, that I may know the number of the people.
3. 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?
4. 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.
5. And they passed over Jordan, and pitched in A-ro-er, on the right
side of the city that lieth in the midst of the river of Gad, and toward
Jazer:
6. Then they came to Gil-e-ad, and to the land of Tah-tim-hod-shi; and
they came to Dan-ja-an, and about to Zidon,
7. And came to the strong hold of Tyre, and to all the cities of the
Hivites, and of the Ca-na-an-ites: and they went out to the south of
Judah, even to Beer-sheba.
8. So when they had gone through all the land, they came to Jerusalem at
the end of nine months and twenty days.
9. 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. 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.
11. For when David was up in the morning, the word of the LORD came unto
the prophet Gad, David's seer, saying,
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.
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.
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.
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 Beer-sheba
seventy thousand men.
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 A-rau-nah the Jeb-u-site.
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.
18. And Gad came that day to David, and said unto him, Go up, rear an
altar unto the LORD in the threshingfloor of A-rau-nah the Jeb-u-site.
19. And David, according to the saying of Gad, went up as the LORD
commanded.
20. And A-rau-nah 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.
21. And A-rau-nah 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.
22. And A-rau-nah 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.
23. All these things did A-rau-nah, as a king, give unto the king. And
Araunah said unto the king, The LORD thy God accept thee.
24. And the king said unto A-rau-nah, 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 she-kels of silver.
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.
Apr. 26 Daily reading
schedule.. go to Luke 19
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