1And the anger of the Lord was again kindled against Israel, and stirred up David among them, saying: Go, number Israel and Juda.stylus1 Chronicles 21:1, 1 Chronicles 21:1, 1 Chronicles 27:23, 1 Chronicles 27:24, 1 Chronicles 27:232And the king said to Joab the general of his army: Go through all the tribes of Israel from Dan to Bersabee, and number ye the people that I may know the number of them.stylus2 Samuel 3:10, 2 Samuel 3:10, Judges 20:1, Judges 20:1, 2 Samuel 20:233And Joab said to the king: The Lord thy God increase thy people, and make them as many more as they are now, and again multiply them a hundredfold in the sight of my lord the king: but what meaneth my lord the king by this kind of thing?stylusDeuteronomy 1:11, Deuteronomy 1:11, Psalms 115:14, Psalms 115:14, Isaiah 60:54But the king's words prevailed over the words of Joab, and of the captains of the army: and Joab, and the captains of the soldiers went out from the presence of the king, to number the people of Israel.stylusEcclesiastes 8:4, Acts 5:29, Ecclesiastes 8:4, Acts 5:29, Exodus 1:175And when they had passed the Jordan, they came to Aroer to the right side of the city, which is in the vale of Gad.stylusJoshua 13:9, Deuteronomy 2:36, Joshua 13:9, Deuteronomy 2:36, Joshua 13:166And by Jazer they passed into Galaad, and to the lower land of Hodsi, and they came into the woodlands of Dan. And going about by Sidon,stylusJoshua 19:28, Joshua 19:28, Genesis 31:21, Numbers 32:1, Joshua 19:477They passed near the walls of Tyre, and all the land of the Hevite, and the Chanaanite, and they came to the south of Juda into Bersabee:stylusJoshua 19:29, Joshua 19:29, Joshua 11:3, Joshua 11:3, Genesis 21:228And having gone through the whole land, after nine months and twenty days, they came to Jerusalem.stylus9And Joab gave up the sum of the number of the people to the king, and there were found of Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men that drew the sword: and of Juda five hundred thousand fighting men.stylus1 Chronicles 27:23, 1 Chronicles 27:24, 1 Chronicles 21:5, 1 Chronicles 21:6, 1 Chronicles 27:2310But David's heart struck him, after the people were numbered: and David said to the Lord: I have sinned very much in what I have done: but I pray thee, O Lord, to take away the iniquity of thy servant, because I have done exceeding foolishly.stylus2 Samuel 12:13, 2 Samuel 12:13, 1 Samuel 13:13, 1 Samuel 13:13, Proverbs 28:1311And David arose in the morning, and the word of the Lord came to Gad the prophet and the seer of David, saying:stylus1 Samuel 22:5, 1 Samuel 9:9, 1 Samuel 22:5, 1 Samuel 9:9, 1 Chronicles 29:2912Go, and say to David: Thus saith the Lord: I give thee thy choice of three things, choose one of them which thou wilt, that I may do it to thee.stylusRevelation 3:19, Hebrews 12:6, Hebrews 12:10, Proverbs 3:12, Revelation 3:1913And when Gad was come to David, he told him, saying: Either seven years of famine shall come to thee in thy land: or thou shalt flee three months before thy adversaries, and they shall pursue thee: or for three days there shall be a pestilence in thy land. Now therefore deliberate, and see what answer I shall return to him that sent me.stylus1 Chronicles 21:12, 1 Chronicles 21:12, Leviticus 26:25, 1 Kings 17:1, 1 Kings 17:714And David said to Gad: I am in a great strait: but it is better that I should fall into the hands of the Lord (for his mercies are many) than into the hands of men.stylusPsalms 119:156, Psalms 51:1, Psalms 119:156, Psalms 51:1, 1 Chronicles 21:1315And the Lord sent a pestilence upon Israel, from the morning unto the time appointed, and there died of the people from Dan to Bersabee seventy thousand men.stylus1 Chronicles 21:14, 1 Chronicles 21:14, 1 Chronicles 27:24, 1 Chronicles 27:24, Revelation 6:816And when the angel of the Lord had stretched out his hand over Jerusalem to destroy it, the Lord had pity on the affliction, and said to the angel that slew the people: It is enough: now hold thy hand. And the angel of the Lord was by the thrashingfloor of Areuna the Jebusite.stylusJoel 2:13, Joel 2:14, Joel 2:13, Joel 2:14, Genesis 6:617And David said to the Lord, when he saw the angel striking the people: It is I; I am he that have sinned, I have done wickedly: these that are the sheep, what have they done? let thy hand, I beseech thee, be turned against me, and against my father's house.stylus1 Chronicles 21:16, 1 Chronicles 21:17, Psalms 74:1, 1 Chronicles 21:16, 1 Chronicles 21:1718And Gad came to David that day, and said: Go up, and build an altar to the Lord in the thrashingfloor of Areuna the Jebusite.stylus1 Chronicles 21:18, 1 Chronicles 21:30, 2 Samuel 24:11, 1 Chronicles 21:18, 1 Chronicles 21:3019And David went up according to the word of Gad which the Lord had commanded him.stylusHebrews 11:8, Hebrews 11:8, 2 Chronicles 20:20, Nehemiah 9:26, 1 Chronicles 21:1920And Areuna looked, and saw the king and his servants coming towards him:stylusRuth 2:10, 1 Chronicles 21:20, 1 Chronicles 21:21, 2 Samuel 9:8, Genesis 18:221And going out he worshipped the king, bowing with his face to the earth, and said: Wherefore is my lord the king come to his servant? And David said to him: To buy the thrashingfloor of thee, and build an altar to the Lord, that the plague, which rageth among the people, may cease.stylus2 Samuel 24:18, Genesis 23:8, Genesis 23:16, Psalms 106:30, 2 Samuel 24:322And Areuna said to David: Let my lord the king take, and offer, as it seemeth good to him: thou hast here oxen for a holocaust, and the wain, and the yokes of the oxen for wood.stylus1 Kings 19:21, 1 Kings 19:21, 1 Samuel 6:14, 1 Samuel 6:14, Genesis 23:1123All these things Areuna as a king gave to the king: and Areuna said to the king: The Lord thy God receive thy vow.stylusEzekiel 20:40, Ezekiel 20:41, Ezekiel 20:40, Ezekiel 20:41, Romans 15:3024And the king answered him, and said: Nay, but I will buy it of thee, at a price, and I will not offer to the Lord my God holocausts free cost. So David bought the floor, and the oxen, for fifty sicles of silver:stylus1 Chronicles 21:24, 1 Chronicles 21:25, 1 Chronicles 21:24, 1 Chronicles 21:25, Malachi 1:1225And David built there an altar to the Lord, and offered holocausts and peace offerings: and the Lord became merciful to the land, and the plague was stayed from Israel.stylus2 Samuel 21:14, 2 Samuel 21:14, 1 Samuel 7:17, 2 Samuel 24:14, Genesis 8:20
