1Again the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he moved David against them, saying, "Go, number Israel and Judah."stylus1 Chronicles 21:1, 1 Chronicles 21:1, 1 Chronicles 27:23, 1 Chronicles 27:24, 1 Chronicles 27:232The king said to Joab the captain of the army, who was with him, "Now go back and forth through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan even to Beersheba, and number the people, that I may know the sum of the people."stylus2 Samuel 3:10, 2 Samuel 3:10, Judges 20:1, Judges 20:1, 2 Samuel 20:233Joab said to the king, "Now may the Lord your God add to the people, however many they may be, one hundred times; and may the eyes of my lord the king see it. But why does my lord the king delight in this thing?"stylusDeuteronomy 1:11, Deuteronomy 1:11, Psalms 115:14, Psalms 115:14, Isaiah 60:54Notwithstanding, the king's word prevailed against Joab, and against the captains of the army. Joab and the captains of the army 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 1:175They passed over the Jordan, and encamped in Aroer, on the right side of the city that is in the middle of the valley of Gad, and to Jazer:stylusJoshua 13:9, Deuteronomy 2:36, Joshua 13:9, Deuteronomy 2:36, Joshua 13:166then they came to Gilead, and to the land of Tahtim Hodshi; and they came to Dan Jaan, and around to Sidon,stylusJoshua 19:28, Joshua 19:28, Genesis 31:21, Numbers 32:1, Joshua 19:477and came to the stronghold of Tyre, and to all the cities of the Hivites, and of the Canaanites; and they went out to the south of Judah, at Beersheba.stylusJoshua 19:29, Joshua 19:29, Joshua 11:3, Joshua 11:3, Genesis 21:228So when they had gone back and forth through all the land, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.stylus9Joab gave up the sum of the numbering of the people to the king: and there were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men who drew the sword; and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand men.stylus1 Chronicles 27:23, 1 Chronicles 27:24, 1 Chronicles 21:5, 1 Chronicles 21:6, 1 Chronicles 27:2310David's heart struck him after that he had numbered the people. David said to the Lord, "I have sinned greatly in that which I have done. But now, Lord, put away, I beg you, the iniquity of your servant; for I have done very foolishly."stylus2 Samuel 12:13, 2 Samuel 12:13, 1 Samuel 13:13, 1 Samuel 13:13, Proverbs 28:1311When David rose up in the morning, the word of the Lord came to the prophet Gad, David's seer, saying,stylus1 Samuel 22:5, 1 Samuel 9:9, 1 Samuel 22:5, 1 Samuel 9:9, 1 Chronicles 29:2912"Go and speak to David, 'Thus says the Lord, "I offer you three things. Choose one of them, that I may do it to you."'"stylusRevelation 3:19, Hebrews 12:6, Hebrews 12:10, Proverbs 3:12, Revelation 3:1913So Gad came to David, and told him, and said to him, "Shall seven years of famine come to you in your land? Or will you flee three months before your foes while they pursue you? Or shall there be three days' pestilence in your land? Now answer, and consider what answer I shall return to him who sent me."stylus1 Chronicles 21:12, 1 Chronicles 21:12, Leviticus 26:25, 1 Kings 17:1, 1 Kings 17:714David said to Gad, "I am in distress. Let us fall now into the hand of the Lord; for his mercies are great. Let me not fall into the hand of man."stylusPsalms 119:156, Psalms 51:1, Psalms 119:156, Psalms 51:1, 1 Chronicles 21:1315So the Lord sent a pestilence on Israel from the morning even to the appointed time; and there died of the people from Dan even to Beersheba seventy thousand men.stylus1 Chronicles 21:14, 1 Chronicles 21:14, 1 Chronicles 27:24, 1 Chronicles 27:24, Revelation 6:816When the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, the Lord relented of the disaster, and said to the angel who destroyed the people, "It is enough. Now stay your hand." The angel of the Lord was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.stylusJoel 2:13, Joel 2:14, Joel 2:13, Joel 2:14, Genesis 6:617David spoke to the Lord when he saw the angel who struck the people, and said, "Behold, I have sinned, and I have done perversely; but these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand be 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 21:1718Gad came that day to David, and said to him, "Go up, build an altar to the Lord on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite."stylus1 Chronicles 21:18, 1 Chronicles 21:30, 2 Samuel 24:11, 1 Chronicles 21:18, 1 Chronicles 21:3019David went up according to the saying of Gad, as the Lord commanded.stylusHebrews 11:8, Hebrews 11:8, 2 Chronicles 20:20, Nehemiah 9:26, 1 Chronicles 21:1920Araunah looked out, and saw the king and his servants coming on toward him. Then Araunah went out, and bowed himself before the king with his face to the ground.stylusRuth 2:10, 1 Chronicles 21:20, 1 Chronicles 21:21, 2 Samuel 9:8, Genesis 18:221Araunah said, "Why has my lord the king come to his servant?" David said, "To buy your threshing floor, to build an altar to the Lord, that the plague may be stopped from afflicting the people."stylus2 Samuel 24:18, Genesis 23:8, Genesis 23:16, Psalms 106:30, 2 Samuel 24:322Araunah said to David, "Let my lord the king take and offer up what seems good to him. Behold, the cattle for the burnt offering, and the threshing instruments and the yokes of the oxen for the wood:stylus1 Kings 19:21, 1 Kings 19:21, 1 Samuel 6:14, 1 Samuel 6:14, Genesis 23:1123all this, king, does Araunah give to the king." Araunah said to the king, "May the Lord your God accept you."stylusEzekiel 20:40, Ezekiel 20:41, Ezekiel 20:40, Ezekiel 20:41, Romans 15:3024The king said to Araunah, "No; but I will most certainly buy it from you for a price. I will not offer burnt offerings to the Lord my God which cost me nothing." So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.stylus1 Chronicles 21:24, 1 Chronicles 21:25, 1 Chronicles 21:24, 1 Chronicles 21:25, Malachi 1:1225David built an altar to the Lord there, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. So the Lord was entreated for 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