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I Chronicles Chapter 21

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I CHRONICLES

I Chronicles 21

1And Satan stoode vp against Israel, and prouoked Dauid to nomber Israel.
2 Samuel 24:1, 2 Samuel 24:25, 2 Samuel 24:1, 2 Samuel 24:25, Zechariah 3:1
2Therefore Dauid said to Ioab, and to the rulers of the people, Go, and nomber Israel from Beer-sheba euen to Dan, and bring it to me, that I may knowe the nomber of them.
1 Chronicles 27:23, 1 Chronicles 27:24, 1 Chronicles 27:23, 1 Chronicles 27:24, Proverbs 29:23
3And Ioab answered, The Lord increase his people an hundreth times so many as they be, O my lord the King: are they not all my lords seruats? wherefore doeth my lord require this thing? why should he be a cause of trespasse to Israel?
Deuteronomy 1:11, Deuteronomy 1:11, 1 Kings 14:16, Genesis 20:9, Isaiah 26:15
4Neuerthelesse the Kings word preuailed against Ioab. And Ioab departed and went thorowe all Israel, and returned to Ierusalem.
Ecclesiastes 8:4, Acts 5:29, Daniel 3:18, Exodus 1:17, 2 Samuel 24:3
5And Ioab gaue the nomber and summe of the people vnto Dauid: and all Israel were eleuen hundreth thousande men that drewe sword: and Iudah was foure hundreth and seuentie thousande men that drewe sword.
2 Samuel 24:9, 2 Samuel 24:9, 1 Chronicles 27:23, 1 Chronicles 27:23
6But the Leuites and Beniamin counted he not among them: for the Kings worde was abominable to Ioab.
1 Chronicles 27:24, 1 Chronicles 27:24, Numbers 1:47, Numbers 1:49, Numbers 1:47
7And God was displeased with this thing: therefore he smote Israel.
2 Samuel 21:14, 2 Samuel 24:1, 1 Kings 15:5, Joshua 7:5, Joshua 22:16
8Then Dauid saide vnto God, I haue sinned greatly, because I haue done this thing: but now, I beseech thee, remooue the iniquitie of thy seruant: for I haue done very foolishly.
2 Samuel 12:13, 2 Samuel 12:13, Psalms 51:1, Psalms 51:3, 1 John 1:9
9And the Lord spake vnto Gad Dauids Seer, saying,
2 Samuel 24:11, 1 Samuel 9:9, 2 Samuel 24:11, 1 Samuel 9:9, 1 Chronicles 29:29
10Goe and tell Dauid, saying, Thus saith the Lord, I offer thee three thinges: choose thee one of them, that I may doe it vnto thee.
2 Samuel 12:10, 2 Samuel 12:12, Revelation 3:19, Joshua 24:15, Proverbs 1:29
11So Gad came to Dauid, and sayde vnto him, Thus saith the Lord, Take to thee
Proverbs 19:20, Proverbs 19:20
12Either three yeeres famine, or three moneths to be destroyed before thine aduersaries, and the sworde of thine enemies to take thee, or els the sworde of the Lord and pestilence in the lande three dayes, that the Angel of the Lord may destroy throughout all the coastes of Israel: nowe therefore aduise thee, what word I shall bring againe to him that sent me.
Jeremiah 47:6, Deuteronomy 28:15, Ezekiel 14:19, Ezekiel 14:21, 2 Samuel 21:1
13And Dauid said vnto Gad, I am in a wonderfull strait. let me nowe fall into the hande of the Lord: for his mercies are exceeding great, and let me not fall into the hande of man.
Psalms 130:7, Psalms 130:7, Hebrews 10:31, Philippians 1:23, Isaiah 55:7
14So the Lord sent a pestilence in Israel, and there fell of Israel seuentie thousande men.
1 Samuel 6:19, Numbers 25:9, 1 Chronicles 27:24, Numbers 16:46, Numbers 16:49
15And God sent the Angel into Ierusalem to destroy it. And as he was destroying, the Lord behelde, and repented of the euill and sayde to the Angel that destroyed, It is nowe ynough, let thine hande cease. Then the Angel of the Lord stoode by the thresshing floore of Ornan the Iebusite.
Genesis 6:6, Genesis 6:6, Exodus 32:14, Exodus 32:14, Matthew 23:37
16And Dauid lift vp his eyes, and sawe the Angel of the Lord stande betweene the earth and the heauen with his sworde drawen in his hand, and stretched out towarde Ierusalem. Then Dauid and the Elders of Israel, which were clothed in sacke, fell vpon their faces.
Numbers 14:5, Numbers 14:5, 1 Kings 21:27, 1 Kings 21:27, Jonah 3:6
17And Dauid said vnto God, Is it not I that commanded to nomber the people? It is euen I that haue sinned and haue committed euil, but these sheepe what haue they done? O Lord my God, I beseech thee, let thine hande be on me and on my fathers house, and not on thy people for their destruction.
Ezekiel 16:63, Ezekiel 16:63, John 10:11, John 10:12, 1 John 3:16
18Then the Angel of the Lord commanded Gad to say to Dauid, that Dauid should goe vp, and set vp an altar vnto the Lord in the thresshing floore of Ornan the Iebusite.
2 Chronicles 3:1, 2 Chronicles 3:1, 2 Samuel 24:18, 2 Samuel 24:18, 1 Chronicles 21:11
19So Dauid went vp according to the saying of Gad, which he had spoken in the Name of the Lord.
2 Kings 5:10, 2 Kings 5:14, Acts 9:6, John 2:5, 2 Kings 5:10
20And Ornan turned about, and sawe the Angel, and his foure sonnes, that were with him, hid them selues, and Ornan thresshed wheat.
Judges 6:11, Judges 6:11
21And as Dauid came to Ornan, Ornan looked and sawe Dauid, and went out of the thresshing floore, and bowed himselfe to Dauid with his face to the grounde.
2 Samuel 24:18, 2 Samuel 24:20, 1 Samuel 25:23, 2 Samuel 24:18, 2 Samuel 24:20
22And Dauid saide to Ornan, Giue me the place of thy thresshing floore, that I may builde an altar therein vnto the Lord: giue it me for sufficient money, that the plague may be stayed from the people.
Numbers 16:48, 1 Kings 21:2, 2 Samuel 24:21, Numbers 25:8, Numbers 16:48
23Then Ornan saide vnto Dauid, Take it to thee, and let my lord the King do that which seemeth him good: loe, I giue thee bullockes for burnt offrings, and thresshing instruments for wood, and wheat for meate offring, I giue it all.
2 Samuel 24:22, 2 Samuel 24:23, 2 Samuel 24:22, 2 Samuel 24:23, Genesis 23:4
24And King Dauid saide to Ornan, Not so: but I will bye it for sufficient money: for I wil not take that which is thine for the Lord, nor offer burnt offrings without cost.
Genesis 14:23, Malachi 1:12, Malachi 1:14, Genesis 23:13, Deuteronomy 16:16
25So Dauid gaue to Ornan for that place sixe hundreth shekels of golde by weight.
2 Samuel 24:24, 2 Samuel 24:25, 2 Samuel 24:24, 2 Samuel 24:25
26And Dauid built there an altar vnto the Lord, and offred burnt offrings, and peace offrings, and called vpon the Lord, and he answered him by fire from heauen vpon the altar of burnt offring.
Leviticus 9:24, Leviticus 9:24, Judges 6:21, Judges 6:21, 1 Kings 18:38
27And when the Lord had spoken to the Angel, he put vp his sworde againe into his sheath.
Psalms 103:20, Jeremiah 47:6, 1 Chronicles 21:12, 1 Chronicles 21:20, Ezekiel 21:30
28At that time when Dauid sawe that the Lord had heard him in the thresshing floore of Ornan the Iebusite, then he sacrificed there.
29(But the Tabernacle of the Lord which Moses had made in the wildernesse, and the altar of burnt offring were at that season in the hie place at Gibeon.
1 Chronicles 16:39, 1 Chronicles 16:39, 2 Chronicles 1:3, 2 Chronicles 1:3, 1 Kings 3:4
30And Dauid could not go before it to aske counsel at God: for he was afraide of the sworde of the Angel of the Lord.)
Hebrews 12:28, Hebrews 12:29, 1 Chronicles 21:16, Job 13:21, Deuteronomy 10:12

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