1Ch 21 | EngLXX | STEP | And the devil stood up against Israel, and moved David to number Israel.

‏ 1 Chronicles 21

1 And the devil stood up against Israel, and moved David to number Israel. 2 And king David said to Joab and to the captains of the forces, Go, number Israel fromBersabee even to Dan, and bring methe account, and I shall know their number. 3 And Joab said, May the Lord add to his people, a hundred-fold as many as theyare, andlet the eyes of my lord the king seeit: allare the servants of my lord. Why does my lord seek this thing?do it not, lest it become a sin to Israel. 4 Nevertheless the king's word prevailed against Joab; and Joab went out and passed throughall Israel, and came to Jerusalem. 5 And Joab gave the number of the mustering of the people to David: and all Israel was amillion and a hundred thousand men that drew sword: and the sons of Judawere four hundred and seventy thousand men that drew sword. 6 But he numbered not Levi and Benjamin among them; for the word of the king was painfulto Joab. 7 Andthere was evil in the sight of the Lord respecting this thing; and he struck Israel. 8 And David said to God, I have sinned exceedingly, in that I have done this thing: andnow, I pray you, remove the sin of your servant; for I have been exceedingly foolish. 9 And the Lord spoke to Gad the seer, saying, 10 Go and speak to David, saying, Thus says the Lord, I bring three things upon you: chooseone of them for yourself, and I will do it to you. 11 And Gad came to David, and said to him, Thus says the Lord, Choose for yourself, 12 either three years of famine, or that you should flee three months from the face of yourenemies, and the sword of your enemiesshall be employed to destroy you, or that the sword of the Lord and pestilenceshould be three days in the land, and the angel of the Lordshall be destroying in all the inheritance of Israel. And now consider what I shall answerto him that sent the message. 13 And David said to Gad, They are very hard for me, evenall the three: let me fall now into the hands of the Lord, for his merciesare very abundant, and let me not fall by any means into the hands of man. 14 So the Lord brought pestilence upon Israel: and there fell of Israel seventy thousandmen. 15 And God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he was destroying, the Lordsaw, and repented for the evil, and said to the angel that was destroying, Let it suffice you; withholdyour hand. And the angel of the Lord stood by the threshing floor of Orna the Jebusite. 16 And David lifted up his eyes, and saw the angel of the Lord, standing between the earthand the heaven, and his sword drawn in his hand, stretched out over Jerusalem: and David and the eldersclothed in sackcloth, fell upon their faces. 17 And David said to God,Was it not Ithat gave orders to number the people? and I am the guilty one; I have greatly sinned: butthese sheep, what have they done? O Lord God, let your hand be upon me, and upon my father's house, andnot on your people for destruction, O Lord! 18 And the angel of the Lord told Gad to tell David, that he should go up to erect and altarto the Lord, in the threshing floor of Orna the Jebusite. 19 And David went up according to the word of Gad, which he spoke in the name of the Lord. 20 And Orna turned and saw the king; and he hid himself and his four sons with him. NowOrna was threshing wheat. 21 And David came to Orna; and Orna came forth from the threshing floor, and did obeisanceto David with his face to the ground. 22 And David said to Orna, Give me your place of the threshing floor, and I will build uponit an altar to the Lord: give it me for its worth in money, and the plague shall cease fromamong the people. 23 And Orna said to David, Take it to yourself, and let my lord the king do what is rightin his eyes: see, I have given the calves for a whole burnt offering, and the plow for wood, and the cornfor a meat-offering; I have given all. 24 And king David said to Orna, Nay; for I will surely buy it for its worth in money: forI will not take your property for the Lord, to offer a whole burnt offering to the Lord without costto myself. 25 And David gave to Orna for his place six hundred shekels of goldby weight. 26 And David built there an altar to the Lord, and offered up whole burnt offerings andpeace-offerings: and he cried to the Lord, and he answered him by fire out of heaven on the altar of whole burnt offerings,andit consumed the whole burnt offering. 27 And the Lord spoke to the angel; and he put up the sword into its sheath. 28 At that time when David saw that the Lord answered him in the threshing floor of Ornathe Jebusite, he also sacrificed there. 29 And the tabernacle of the Lord which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of whole burnt offerings,were at that time in the high place at Gabaon. 30 And David could not go before it to enquire of God; for he hasted not because of thesword of the angel of the Lord.