1Now Satan, designing evil against Israel, put into David's mind the impulse to take the number of Israel.stylus2 Samuel 24:1, 2 Samuel 24:25, 2 Samuel 24:1, 2 Samuel 24:25, Zechariah 3:12And David said to Joab and the captains of the people, Now let all Israel, from Beer-sheba to Dan, be numbered; and give me word so that I may be certain of their number.stylus1 Chronicles 27:23, 1 Chronicles 27:24, 1 Chronicles 27:23, 1 Chronicles 27:24, Proverbs 29:233And Joab said, May the Lord make his people a hundred times more in number than they are; but, my lord king, are they not all my lord's servants? why would my lord have this done? why will he become a cause of sin to Israel?stylusDeuteronomy 1:11, Deuteronomy 1:11, 1 Kings 14:16, Genesis 20:9, Isaiah 26:154But the king's word was stronger than Joab's. So Joab went out and went through all Israel and came to Jerusalem.stylusEcclesiastes 8:4, Acts 5:29, Daniel 3:18, Exodus 1:17, 2 Samuel 24:35And Joab gave David the number of all the people; all the men of Israel, able to take up arms, were one million, one hundred thousand men; and those of Judah were four hundred and seventy thousand men, able to take up arms.stylus2 Samuel 24:9, 2 Samuel 24:9, 1 Chronicles 27:23, 1 Chronicles 27:236But Levi and Benjamin were not numbered among them, for Joab was disgusted with the king's order.stylus1 Chronicles 27:24, 1 Chronicles 27:24, Numbers 1:47, Numbers 1:49, Numbers 1:477And God was not pleased with this thing; so he sent punishment on Israel.stylus2 Samuel 21:14, 2 Samuel 24:1, 1 Kings 15:5, Joshua 7:5, Joshua 22:168Then David said to God, Great has been my sin in doing this; but now, be pleased to take away the sin of your servant, for I have done very foolishly.stylus2 Samuel 12:13, 2 Samuel 12:13, Psalms 51:1, Psalms 51:3, 1 John 1:99Then the word of the Lord came to Gad, David's seer, saying,stylus2 Samuel 24:11, 1 Samuel 9:9, 2 Samuel 24:11, 1 Samuel 9:9, 1 Chronicles 29:2910Go and say to David, The Lord says, Three things are offered to you: say which of them you will have, so that I may do it to you.stylus2 Samuel 12:10, 2 Samuel 12:12, Revelation 3:19, Joshua 24:15, Proverbs 1:2911So Gad came to David and said to him, The Lord says, Take whichever you will:stylusProverbs 19:20, Proverbs 19:2012Three years when there will not be enough food; or three months of war, when you will go in flight before your haters, being in great danger of the sword; or three days of the sword of the Lord, disease in the land, and the angel of the Lord taking destruction through all the land of Israel. Now give thought to the answer I am to take back to him who sent me.stylusJeremiah 47:6, Deuteronomy 28:15, Ezekiel 14:19, Ezekiel 14:21, 2 Samuel 21:113And David said to Gad, This is a hard decision for me to make: let me come into the hands of the Lord, for great are his mercies: let me not come into the hands of men.stylusPsalms 130:7, Psalms 130:7, Hebrews 10:31, Philippians 1:23, Isaiah 55:714So the Lord sent disease on Israel, causing the death of seventy thousand men.stylus1 Samuel 6:19, Numbers 25:9, 1 Chronicles 27:24, Numbers 16:46, Numbers 16:4915And God sent an angel to Jerusalem for its destruction: and when he was about to do so, the Lord saw, and had regret for the evil, and said to the angel of destruction, It is enough; do no more. Now the angel of the Lord was by the grain-floor of Ornan the Jebusite.stylusGenesis 6:6, Genesis 6:6, Exodus 32:14, Exodus 32:14, Matthew 23:3716And David, lifting up his eyes, saw the angel of the Lord there between earth and heaven, with an uncovered sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the responsible men, clothed in haircloth, went down on their faces.stylusNumbers 14:5, Numbers 14:5, 1 Kings 21:27, 1 Kings 21:27, Jonah 3:617And David said to God, Was it not I who gave the order for the people to be numbered? It is I who have done the sin and the great wrong; but these are only sheep; what have they done? let your hand, O Lord God, be lifted up against me and against my family, but not against your people to send disease on them.stylusEzekiel 16:63, Ezekiel 16:63, John 10:11, John 10:12, 1 John 3:1618Then the angel of the Lord gave orders to Gad to say to David that he was to go and put up an altar to the Lord on the grain-floor of Ornan the Jebusite.stylus2 Chronicles 3:1, 2 Chronicles 3:1, 2 Samuel 24:18, 2 Samuel 24:18, 1 Chronicles 21:1119And David went up, as Gad had said in the name of the Lord.stylus2 Kings 5:10, 2 Kings 5:14, Acts 9:6, John 2:5, 2 Kings 5:1020And Ornan, turning back, saw the angel, and his four sons who were with him went to a secret place. Now Ornan was crushing his grain.stylusJudges 6:11, Judges 6:1121And when David came, Ornan, looking, saw him, and came out from the grain-floor and went down on his face to the earth before him.stylus2 Samuel 24:18, 2 Samuel 24:20, 1 Samuel 25:23, 2 Samuel 24:18, 2 Samuel 24:2022Then David said to Ornan, Give me the place where this grain-floor is, so that I may put up an altar here to the Lord: let me have it for its full price; so that this disease may be stopped among the people.stylusNumbers 16:48, 1 Kings 21:2, 2 Samuel 24:21, Numbers 25:8, Numbers 16:4823And Ornan said to David, Take it, and let my lord the king do what seems right to him. See, I give you the oxen for burned offerings and the grain-cleaning instruments for fire-wood, and the grain for the meal offering; I give it all.stylus2 Samuel 24:22, 2 Samuel 24:23, 2 Samuel 24:22, 2 Samuel 24:23, Genesis 23:424And King David said to Ornan, No; I will certainly give you the full price for it, because I will not take for the Lord what is yours, or give a burned offering without payment.stylusGenesis 14:23, Malachi 1:12, Malachi 1:14, Genesis 23:13, Deuteronomy 16:1625So David gave Ornan six hundred shekels of gold by weight for the place.stylus2 Samuel 24:24, 2 Samuel 24:25, 2 Samuel 24:24, 2 Samuel 24:2526And David put up an altar there to the Lord, offering burned offerings and peace-offerings with prayers to the Lord; and he gave him an answer from heaven, sending fire on the altar of burned offering.stylusLeviticus 9:24, Leviticus 9:24, Judges 6:21, Judges 6:21, 1 Kings 18:3827Then the Lord gave orders to the angel, and he put back his sword into its cover.stylusPsalms 103:20, Jeremiah 47:6, 1 Chronicles 21:12, 1 Chronicles 21:20, Ezekiel 21:3028At that time, when David saw that the Lord had given him an answer on the grain-floor of Ornan the Jebusite, he made an offering there.stylus29For the House of the Lord, which Moses had made in the waste land, and the altar of burned offerings, were at that time in the high place at Gibeon.stylus1 Chronicles 16:39, 1 Chronicles 16:39, 2 Chronicles 1:3, 2 Chronicles 1:3, 1 Kings 3:430But David was not able to go before it to get directions from the Lord, so great was his fear of the sword of the angel of the Lord.stylusHebrews 12:28, Hebrews 12:29, 1 Chronicles 21:16, Job 13:21, Deuteronomy 10:12