21:1 Then
Satan
stood
against
Israel
and
incited
David
to
number
Israel.
21:2 So
David
said
to
Joab
and
the
commanders
of
the
army,
"Go,
number
Israel,
from
Beersheba
to
Dan,
and
bring
me
a
report,
that
I
may
know
their
number."
21:3 But
Joab
said,
"May
the
LORD
add
to
his
people
a
hundred
times
as
many
as
they
are!
Are
they
not,
my
lord
the
king,
all
of
them
my
lord's
servants
Why
then
should
my
lord
require
this
Why
should
it
be
a
cause
of
guilt
for
Israel"
21:4 But
the
king's
word
prevailed
against
Joab.
So
Joab
departed
and
went
throughout
all
Israel
and
came
back
to
Jerusalem.
21:5 And
Joab
gave
the
sum
of
the
numbering
of
the
people
to
David.
In
all
Israel
there
were
1,100,000
men
who
drew
the
sword,
and
in
Judah
470,000
who
drew
the
sword.
21:6 But
he
did
not
include
Levi
and
Benjamin
in
the
numbering,
for
the
king's
command
was
abhorrent
to
Joab.
21:7 But
God
was
displeased
with
this
thing,
and
he
struck
Israel.
21:8 And
David
said
to
God,
"I
have
sinned
greatly
in
that
I
have
done
this
thing.
But
now,
please
take
away
the
iniquity
of
your
servant,
for
I
have
acted
very
foolishly."
21:9 And
the
LORD
spoke
to
Gad,
David's
seer,
saying,
21:10 "Go
and
say
to
David,
'Thus
says
the
LORD,
Three
things
I
offer
you;
choose
one
of
them,
that
I
may
do
it
to
you.'"
21:11 So
Gad
came
to
David
and
said
to
him,
"Thus
says
the
LORD,
'Choose
what
you
will:
21:12 either
three
years
of
famine,
or
three
months
of
devastation
by
your
foes
while
the
sword
of
your
enemies
overtakes
you,
or
else
three
days
of
the
sword
of
the
LORD,
pestilence
on
the
land,
with
the
angel
of
the
LORD
destroying
throughout
all
the
territory
of
Israel.'
Now
decide
what
answer
I
shall
return
to
him
who
sent
me."
21:13 Then
David
said
to
Gad,
"I
am
in
great
distress.
Let
me
fall
into
the
hand
of
the
LORD,
for
his
mercy
is
very
great,
but
do
not
let
me
fall
into
the
hand
of
man."
21:14 So
the
LORD
sent
a
pestilence
on
Israel,
and
70,000
men
of
Israel
fell.
21:15 And
God
sent
the
angel
to
Jerusalem
to
destroy
it,
but
as
he
was
about
to
destroy
it,
the
LORD
saw,
and
he
relented
from
the
calamity.
And
he
said
to
the
angel
who
was
working
destruction,
"It
is
enough;
now
stay
your
hand."
And
the
angel
of
the
LORD
was
standing
by
the
threshing
floor
of
Ornan
the
Jebusite.
21:16 And
David
lifted
his
eyes
and
saw
the
angel
of
the
LORD
standing
between
earth
and
heaven,
and
in
his
hand
a
drawn
sword
stretched
out
over
Jerusalem.
Then
David
and
the
elders,
clothed
in
sackcloth,
fell
upon
their
faces.
21:17 And
David
said
to
God,
"Was
it
not
I
who
gave
command
to
number
the
people
It
is
I
who
have
sinned
and
done
great
evil.
But
these
sheep,
what
have
they
done
Please
let
your
hand,
O
LORD
my
God,
be
against
me
and
against
my
father's
house.
But
do
not
let
the
plague
be
on
your
people."
21:18 Now
the
angel
of
the
LORD
had
commanded
Gad
to
say
to
David
that
David
should
go
up
and
raise
an
altar
to
the
LORD
on
the
threshing
floor
of
Ornan
the
Jebusite.
21:19 So
David
went
up
at
Gad's
word,
which
he
had
spoken
in
the
name
of
the
LORD.
21:20 Now
Ornan
was
threshing
wheat.
He
turned
and
saw
the
angel,
and
his
four
sons
who
were
with
him
hid
themselves.
21:21 As
David
came
to
Ornan,
Ornan
looked
and
saw
David
and
went
out
from
the
threshing
floor
and
paid
homage
to
David
with
his
face
to
the
ground.
21:22 And
David
said
to
Ornan,
"Give
me
the
site
of
the
threshing
floor
that
I
may
build
on
it
an
altar
to
the
LORD--give
it
to
me
at
its
full
price--that
the
plague
may
be
averted
from
the
people."
21:23 Then
Ornan
said
to
David,
"Take
it,
and
let
my
lord
the
king
do
what
seems
good
to
him.
See,
I
give
the
oxen
for
burnt
offerings
and
the
threshing
sledges
for
the
wood
and
the
wheat
for
a
grain
offering;
I
give
it
all."
21:24 But
King
David
said
to
Ornan,
"No,
but
I
will
buy
them
for
the
full
price.
I
will
not
take
for
the
LORD
what
is
yours,
nor
offer
burnt
offerings
that
cost
me
nothing."
21:25 So
David
paid
Ornan
600
shekels
of
gold
by
weight
for
the
site.
21:26 And
David
built
there
an
altar
to
the
LORD
and
presented
burnt
offerings
and
peace
offerings
and
called
on
the
LORD,
and
the
LORD
answered
him
with
fire
from
heaven
upon
the
altar
of
burnt
offering.
21:27 Then
the
LORD
commanded
the
angel,
and
he
put
his
sword
back
into
its
sheath.
21:28 At
that
time,
when
David
saw
that
the
LORD
had
answered
him
at
the
threshing
floor
of
Ornan
the
Jebusite,
he
sacrificed
there.
21:29 For
the
tabernacle
of
the
LORD,
which
Moses
had
made
in
the
wilderness,
and
the
altar
of
burnt
offering
were
at
that
time
in
the
high
place
at
Gibeon,
21:30 but
David
could
not
go
before
it
to
inquire
of
God,
for
he
was
afraid
of
the
sword
of
the
angel
of
the
LORD.