2 Samuel 24

About 2 Samuel 2 Samuel covers King David's reign, his successes and failures, and God's promise of a lasting dynasty.

And again the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he moved David against them to say, Go, number Israel and Judah.Selected2 Samuel 24:1Ask

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.Selected2 Samuel 24:2Ask

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?Selected2 Samuel 24:3Ask

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.Selected2 Samuel 24:4Ask

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:Selected2 Samuel 24:5Ask

Then they came to Gilead, and to the land of Tahtimhodshi; and they came to Danjaan, and about to Zidon,Selected2 Samuel 24:6Ask

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.Selected2 Samuel 24:7Ask

So when they had gone through all the land, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.Selected2 Samuel 24:8Ask

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.Selected2 Samuel 24:9Ask

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.Selected2 Samuel 24:10Ask

For when David was up in the morning, the word of the LORD came unto the prophet Gad, David’s seer, saying,Selected2 Samuel 24:11Ask

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.Selected2 Samuel 24:12Ask

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.Selected2 Samuel 24:13Ask

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.Selected2 Samuel 24:14Ask

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.Selected2 Samuel 24:15Ask

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.Selected2 Samuel 24:16Ask

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.Selected2 Samuel 24:17Ask

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.Selected2 Samuel 24:18Ask

And David, according to the saying of Gad, went up as the LORD commanded.Selected2 Samuel 24:19Ask

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.Selected2 Samuel 24:20Ask

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.Selected2 Samuel 24:21Ask

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.Selected2 Samuel 24:22Ask

All these things did Araunah, as a king, give unto the king. And Araunah said unto the king, The LORD thy God accept thee.Selected2 Samuel 24:23Ask

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.Selected2 Samuel 24:24Ask

And David built there an altar unto the LORD, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. So the LORD was intreated for the land, and the plague was stayed from Israel.Selected2 Samuel 24:25Ask

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