1 Chronicles 21
21:1And Satan rose up against Israel, and stirred up David to count Israel.
21:2And king David said to Joab, and to the rulers of the force, Go, count Israel from Beer-sheba unto Dan, and bring it to me! and I shall know their number.
21:3And Joab said, May the lord add unto his people as they are a hundred foldly, and the eyes of my master the king seeing it. Are not, O my master, O king, all for bondservants to my master? And why does my master want this? so as to not become for a trespass to Israel.
21:4But the saying of the king prevailed over Joab. And Joab went forth, and went unto all Israel, and went up unto Jerusalem.
21:5And Joab gave the number of the numbering of the people to David. And all Israel was a thousand thousand and a hundred thousand men unsheathing the broadsword. And of Judah -- four hundred and seventy thousand men unsheathing the broadsword.
21:6And Levi and Benjamin were not counted in the midst of them, for the word of the king was disgraceful to Joab.
21:7And it was wicked before God concerning this thing, and he struck Israel.
21:8And David said to God, I have sinned exceedingly, that I did this thing. And now, remove indeed the iniquity of your servant! for I acted in folly exceedingly.
21:9And the lord spoke to Gad, David's seer, saying,
21:10Go and speak to David! saying, Thus says the lord, Three things I will take up upon you; choose for yourself one of them! and I will do it unto you.
21:11And Gad came to David, and said to him, Thus says the lord, Choose for yourself!
21:12Either three years of famine; or three months fleeing from the face of your enemies, with the sword of your enemies pursuing you; or three days of the broadsword of the lord, and plague in the land, and the angel of the lord utterly destroying among all the inheritance of Israel. And now, behold, what word should I answer to the one sending me?
21:13And David said to Gad, It is narrow exceedingly, I shall fall indeed into the hands of the lord, for his compassions are exceedingly great; but into the hands of men in no way should I fall.
21:14And the lord appointed plague in Israel. And there fell of Israel seventy thousand men.
21:15And God sent an angel into Jerusalem to utterly destroy it. And as he was utterly destroying, the lord beheld and repented concerning the evil. And he said to the angel, to the one utterly destroying, Let it be enough to you, spare your hand! And the angel of the lord stood at the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
21:16And David lifted up his eyes, and he beheld the angel of the lord standing between the earth and between the heaven, and his broadsword being unsheathed in his hand, being stretched out over Jerusalem. And David and the elders wearing sackcloths fell upon their face.
21:17And David said to God, Did I not say to count among the people? Then I am the one sinning -- in doing evil I did evil. And these sheep, what did they do, O lord God? Let your hand come against me, and against the house of my father, and not against your people for destruction!
21:18And the angel of the lord told Gad to say to David that he should ascend to establish an altar to the lord at the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
21:19And David ascended according to the word of Gad, which he spoke in the name of the lord.
21:20And Ornan turned, and he beheld the king. And his four sons with him were being hidden. And Ornan was threshing wheat.
21:21And David came to Ornan, and Ornan came forth from the threshing-floor. And Ornan looked up, and he saw David, and he did obeisance to David with the face upon the ground.
21:22And David said to Ornan, Give to me the place of the threshing-floor! for I shall build upon it an altar to the lord. Give it to me for its money's worth! and the calamity shall cease from among the people.
21:23And Ornan said to David, Take it for yourself, and let my master the king do what is good before him! Behold, I have given the oxen for a whole burnt-offering, and the plow for wood, and the grain for a sacrifice -- the whole I have given.
21:24And king David said to Ornan, Not so, but only by buying shall I buy of its money's worth; for in no way shall I take the things of yours to the lord, to offer a whole burnt-offering without charge to me to the lord.
21:25And David gave to Ornan for his place six hundred shekels of gold in scale-weight.
21:26And David built there an altar to the lord. And he offered whole burnt-offerings, and a deliverance offering, and he yelled to the lord. And he heeded him by fire from out of the heaven on the altar of the whole burnt-offering.
21:27And the lord spoke to the angel; and he put away his broadsword into its sheath.
21:28In that time when David beheld that the lord heeded him at the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite, then he sacrificed there.
21:29And the tent of the lord which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of the whole burnt-offerings, in that time were in Bama in Gibeon.
21:30And David was not able to go before it to seek God, for he hastened from the face of the broadsword of the angel of the lord.