1And Satan rose up against Israel: and moved David to number 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 to the rulers of the people: Go, and number Israel from Bersabee even to Dan, and bring me the number of them that I may know it.stylus1 Chronicles 27:23, 1 Chronicles 27:24, 1 Chronicles 27:23, 1 Chronicles 27:24, Proverbs 29:233And Joab answered: The Lord make his people a hundred times more than they are: but, my lord the king, are they not all thy servants: why doth my lord seek this thing, which may be imputed as a sin to Israel?stylusDeuteronomy 1:11, Deuteronomy 1:11, 1 Kings 14:16, Genesis 20:9, Isaiah 26:154But the king's word rather prevailed: and Joab departed, and went through all Israel: and returned to Jerusalem.stylusEcclesiastes 8:4, Acts 5:29, Daniel 3:18, Exodus 1:17, 2 Samuel 24:35And he gave David the number of them, whom he had surveyed: and all the number of Israel was found to be eleven hundred thousand men that drew the sword: and of Juda four hundred and seventy thousand fighting men.stylus2 Samuel 24:9, 2 Samuel 24:9, 1 Chronicles 27:23, 1 Chronicles 27:236But Levi and Benjamin he did not number: for Joab unwillingly executed the king's orders.stylus1 Chronicles 27:24, 1 Chronicles 27:24, Numbers 1:47, Numbers 1:49, Numbers 1:477And God was displeased with this thing that was commanded: and he struck Israel.stylus2 Samuel 21:14, 2 Samuel 24:1, 1 Kings 15:5, Joshua 7:5, Joshua 22:168And David said to God: I have sinned exceedingly in doing this: I beseech thee take away the iniquity of thy servant, for I have done foolishly.stylus2 Samuel 12:13, 2 Samuel 12:13, Psalms 51:1, Psalms 51:3, 1 John 1:99And the Lord spoke to Gad the seer of David, saying:stylus2 Samuel 24:11, 1 Samuel 9:9, 2 Samuel 24:11, 1 Samuel 9:9, 1 Chronicles 29:2910Go, and speak to David, and tell him: Thus saith the Lord: I give thee the choice of three things: choose one which thou wilt, and I will do it to thee.stylus2 Samuel 12:10, 2 Samuel 12:12, Revelation 3:19, Joshua 24:15, Proverbs 1:2911And when Gad was come to David, he said to him: Thus saith the Lord: choose which thou wilt:stylusProverbs 19:20, Proverbs 19:2012Either three years famine: or three months to flee from thy enemies, and not to be able to escape their sword: or three days to have the sword of the Lord, and pestilence in the land, and the angel of the Lord destroying in all the coasts of Israel: now therefore see what I shall answer him who sent me.stylusJeremiah 47:6, Deuteronomy 28:15, Ezekiel 14:19, Ezekiel 14:21, 2 Samuel 21:113And David said to Gad: I am on every side in a great strait: but it is better for me to fall into the hands of the Lord, for his mercies are many, than into the hands of men.stylusPsalms 130:7, Psalms 130:7, Hebrews 10:31, Philippians 1:23, Isaiah 55:714So the Lord sent a pestilence upon Israel. And there fell of Israel seventy thousand men.stylus1 Samuel 6:19, Numbers 25:9, 1 Chronicles 27:24, Numbers 16:46, Numbers 16:4915And he sent an angel to Jerusalem, to strike it: and as he was striking it, the Lord beheld, and took pity for the greatness of the evil: and said to the angel that destroyed: It is enough, now stop thy hand. And the angel of the Lord stood by the thrashingfloor 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 standing between heaven and earth, with a drawn sword in his hand, turned against Jerusalem: and both he and the ancients clothed in haircloth, fell down flat on the ground.stylusNumbers 14:5, Numbers 14:5, 1 Kings 21:27, 1 Kings 21:27, Jonah 3:617And David said to God: Am not I he that commanded the people to be numbered? It is I that have sinned: it is I that have done the evil: but as for this flock, what hath it deserved? O Lord my God, let thy hand be turned, I beseech thee, upon me, and upon my father's house: and let not thy people be destroyed.stylusEzekiel 16:63, Ezekiel 16:63, John 10:11, John 10:12, 1 John 3:1618And the angel of the Lord commanded Gad to tell David, to go up, and build an altar to the Lord God in the thrashingfloor 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, according to the word of Gad, which he spoke to him in the name of the Lord.stylus2 Kings 5:10, 2 Kings 5:14, Acts 9:6, John 2:5, 2 Kings 5:1020Now when Ornan looked up, and saw the angel, he and his four sons hid themselves: for at that time he was thrashing wheat in the floor.stylusJudges 6:11, Judges 6:1121And as David was coming to Ornan, Ornan saw him, and went out of the thrashingfloor to meet him, and bowed down to him with his face to the ground.stylus2 Samuel 24:18, 2 Samuel 24:20, 1 Samuel 25:23, 2 Samuel 24:18, 2 Samuel 24:2022And David said to him: Give me this place of thy thrashingfloor, that I may build therein an altar to the Lord: but thou shalt take of me as much money as it is worth, that the plague may cease from 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 all that pleaseth him: and moreover the oxen also I give for a holocaust, and the drays for wood, and the wheat for the sacrifice: I will give it all willingly.stylus2 Samuel 24:22, 2 Samuel 24:23, 2 Samuel 24:22, 2 Samuel 24:23, Genesis 23:424And king David said to him: It shall not be so, but I will give thee money as much as it is worth: for I must not take it from thee, and so offer to the Lord holocausts free cost.stylusGenesis 14:23, Malachi 1:12, Malachi 1:14, Genesis 23:13, Deuteronomy 16:1625So David gave to Ornan for the place, six hundred sicles of gold of just weight.stylus2 Samuel 24:24, 2 Samuel 24:25, 2 Samuel 24:24, 2 Samuel 24:2526And he built there an altar to the Lord: and he offered holocausts, and peace offerings, and he called upon the Lord, and he heard him by sending fire from heaven upon the altar of the holocaust.stylusLeviticus 9:24, Leviticus 9:24, Judges 6:21, Judges 6:21, 1 Kings 18:3827And the Lord commanded the angel: and he put up his sword again into the sheath.stylusPsalms 103:20, Jeremiah 47:6, 1 Chronicles 21:12, 1 Chronicles 21:20, Ezekiel 21:3028And David seeing that the Lord had heard him in the thrashingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite, forthwith offered victims there.stylus29But the tabernacle of the Lord, which Moses made in the desert, and the altar of holocausts, was at that time in the high place of Gabaon.stylus1 Chronicles 16:39, 1 Chronicles 16:39, 2 Chronicles 1:3, 2 Chronicles 1:3, 1 Kings 3:430And David could not go to the altar there to pray to God: for he was seized with an exceeding great fear, seeing the sword of the angel of the Lord.stylusHebrews 12:28, Hebrews 12:29, 1 Chronicles 21:16, Job 13:21, Deuteronomy 10:12