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¹ AndHe tempted David, in setting before his eyes his excellency and glory, his power and victories, see (2Sa_24:1).Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.

² And David said to Joab and to the rulers of the people, Go, number Israel fromThat is, from south to north.Beersheba even to Dan; and bring the number of them to me, that I may know [it].

³ And Joab answered, The LORD make his people an hundred times so many more as they [be]: but, my lord the king, [are] they not all my lord's servants? why then doth my lord require this thing? why will he be a cause ofIt was a thing indifferent and usual to number the people, but because he did it for ambitious reasons, as though his strength stood in his people, God punished him.trespass to Israel?

⁴ Neuerthelesse the Kings word preuailed against Ioab; Ioab departed and went thorowe all Israel, and returned to Ierusalem.

⁵ And Joab gave the sum of the number of the people unto David. And all [they of] Israel wereJoab partly for grief and partly through negligence gathered not the whole sum as it is here declared.a thousand thousand and an hundred thousand men that drew sword: and Judah [was]In Samuel 30,000 more are mentioned, which was either by joining to them some of the Benjamites who were mixed with Judah, or as the Hebrews write, here the chief and princes are left out.four hundred threescore and ten thousand men that drew sword.

⁶ But the Leuites and Beniamin counted he not among them: for the Kings worde was abominable to Ioab.

⁷ And God was displeased with this thing: therefore he smote Israel.

⁸ Then Dauid saide vnto God, I haue sinned greatly, because I haue done this thing: but now, I beseech thee, remooue the iniquitie of thy seruant: for I haue done very foolishly.

⁹ And the Lorde spake vnto Gad Dauids Seer, saying,

¹⁰ Goe and tell Dauid, saying, Thus saith the Lorde, I offer thee three thinges: choose thee one of them, that I may doe it vnto thee.

¹¹ So Gad came to Dauid, and sayde vnto him, Thus saith the Lord, Take to thee

¹² Either three yeeres famine, or three moneths to be destroyed before thine aduersaries, and the sworde of thine enemies to take thee, or els the sworde of the Lorde and pestilence in the lande three dayes, that the Angel of the Lorde may destroy throughout all the coastes of Israel: nowe therefore aduise thee, what word I shal bring againe to him that sent me.

¹³ And Dauid said vnto Gad, I am in a wonderfull strait. Let me nowe fall into the hande of the Lorde: for his mercies are exceeding great, and let me not fall into the hande of man.

¹⁴ So the Lord sent a pestilence in Israel, and there fell of Israel seuentie thousande men.

¹⁵ And God sent an angel unto Jerusalem to destroy it: andRead (2Sa_24:16).as he was destroying, the LORD beheld, and heWhen God draws back his plagues, he seems to repent, read (Gen_6:6).repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed, It is enough, stay now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD stood by the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.

¹⁶ And Dauid lift vp his eyes, and sawe the Angel of the Lorde stande betweene the earth and the heauen with his sworde drawen in his hand, and stretched out towarde Ierusalem. Then Dauid and the Elders of Israel, which were clothed in sacke, fell vpon their faces.

¹⁷ And David said unto God, [Is it] not I [that] commanded the people to be numbered? even I it is that have sinned and done evil indeed; but [as for] these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, O LORD my God, be on me, and on my father's house; but not onThus he both shows a true repentance and a fatherly care toward his people, who desire God to spare them, and to punish him and his.thy people, that they should be plagued.

¹⁸ Then the Angel of the Lord commanded Gad to say to Dauid, that Dauid should goe vp, and set vp an altar vnto the Lord in the thresshing floore of Ornan the Iebusite.

¹⁹ So Dauid went vp according to the saying of Gad, which he had spoken in the Name of the Lorde.

²⁰ And Ornan turned back, and saw the angel; and his four sons with himIf man hides himself at the sight of an angel who is a creature, how much more as a sinner able to appear before the face of God?hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat.

²¹ And as Dauid came to Ornan, Ornan looked and sawe Dauid, and went out of the thresshing floore, and bowed himselfe to Dauid with his face to the grounde.

²² Then David said to Ornan, Grant me the place of [this] threshingfloor, that I may build anThis he did by the command of God, (1Ch_21:18), or else it would have been abominable, unless he had either God's word, or revelation.altar therein unto the LORD: thou shalt grant it me for the full price: that the plague may be stayed from the people.

²³ Then Ornan saide vnto Dauid, Take it to thee, and let my lord the King do that which seemeth him good: loe, I giue thee bullockes for burnt offrings, and thresshing instruments for wood, and wheat for meate offring, I giue it all.

²⁴ And king David said to Ornan, Nay; but I will verily buy it for the fullThat is, as much as it is worth: for having enough of his own, and yet to have taken of another man's goods to offer to the Lord would had been theft and not acceptable to God.price: for I will not take [that] which [is] thine for the LORD, nor offer burnt offerings without cost.

²⁵ So David gave to Ornan for the placeRead (2Sa_24:24).six hundred shekels of gold by weight.

²⁶ And David built there an altar unto the LORD, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and called upon the LORD; and heGod declared that he heard his request, in that he sent down fire from heaven for they could use no fire in sacrifice but that which was reserved still upon the altar, (Lev_6:13) and came down from heaven, (Lev_9:24) as appeared by the punishment of Nadab and Abihu, (Lev_10:1).answered him from heaven by fire upon the altar of burnt offering.

²⁷ And when the Lorde had spoken to the Angel, he put vp his sworde againe into his sheath.

²⁸ At that time when Dauid sawe that the Lorde had heard him in the thresshing floore of Ornan the Iebusite, then he sacrificed there.

²⁹ (But the Tabernacle of the Lorde which Moses had made in the wildernesse, and the altar of burnt offring were at that season in the hie place at Gibeon.

³⁰ And Dauid could not go before it to aske counsel at God: for he was afraide of the sworde of the Angel of the Lorde.)