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1 Chronicles 21:1 (BSB)
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Then Satan rose up against Israel and incited David to take a census of Israel.

1 Chronicles 21:2 (BSB)
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So David said to Joab and the commanders of the troops, “Go and count the Israelites from Beersheba to Dan and bring me a report, so that I may know their number.”

1 Chronicles 21:3 (BSB)
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But Joab replied, “May the LORD multiply His troops a hundred times over. My lord the king, are they not all servants of my lord? Why does my lord want to do this? Why should he bring guilt on Israel?”

1 Chronicles 21:4 (BSB)
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Nevertheless, the king’s word prevailed against Joab. So Joab departed and traveled throughout Israel, and then he returned to Jerusalem.

1 Chronicles 21:5 (BSB)
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And Joab reported to David the total number of the troops. In all Israel there were 1,100,000 men who drew the sword, including 470,000 in Judah.

1 Chronicles 21:6 (BSB)
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But Joab did not include Levi and Benjamin in the count, because the king’s command was detestable to him.

1 Chronicles 21:7 (BSB)
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This command was also evil in the sight of God; so He struck Israel.

1 Chronicles 21:8 (BSB)
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Then David said to God, “I have sinned greatly because I have done this thing. Now I beg You to take away the iniquity of Your servant, for I have acted very foolishly.”

1 Chronicles 21:9 (BSB)
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And the LORD instructed Gad, David’s seer,

1 Chronicles 21:10 (BSB)
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“Go and tell David that this is what the LORD says: ‘I am offering you three options. Choose one of them, and I will carry it out against you.’”

1 Chronicles 21:11 (BSB)
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So Gad went and said to David, “This is what the LORD says: ‘You must choose

1 Chronicles 21:12 (BSB)
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between three years of famine, three months of being swept away before your enemies and overtaken by their swords, or three days of the sword of the LORD—days of plague upon the land, with the angel of the LORD ravaging every part of Israel.’ Now then, decide how I should reply to Him who sent me.”

1 Chronicles 21:13 (BSB)
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David answered Gad, “I am deeply distressed. Please, let me fall into the hand of the LORD, for His mercies are very great; but do not let me fall into the hands of men.”

1 Chronicles 21:14 (BSB)
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So the LORD sent a plague upon Israel, and seventy thousand men of Israel fell dead.

1 Chronicles 21:15 (BSB)
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Then God sent an angel to destroy Jerusalem, but as the angel was doing so, the LORD saw it and relented from the calamity, and He said to the angel who was destroying the people, “Enough! Withdraw your hand now!” At that time the angel of the LORD was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

1 Chronicles 21:16 (BSB)
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When David lifted up his eyes and saw the angel of the LORD standing between heaven and earth, with a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem, David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell facedown.

1 Chronicles 21:17 (BSB)
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And David said to God, “Was it not I who gave the order to count the people? I am the one who has sinned and acted wickedly. But these sheep, what have they done? O LORD my God, please let Your hand fall upon me and my father’s house, but do not let this plague remain upon Your people.”

1 Chronicles 21:18 (BSB)
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Then the angel of the LORD ordered Gad to tell David to go up and build an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

1 Chronicles 21:19 (BSB)
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So David went up at the word that Gad had spoken in the name of the LORD.

1 Chronicles 21:20 (BSB)
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Now Ornan was threshing wheat when he turned and saw the angel; and his four sons who were with him hid themselves.

1 Chronicles 21:21 (BSB)
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David came to Ornan, and when Ornan looked out and saw David, he left the threshing floor and bowed facedown before David.

1 Chronicles 21:22 (BSB)
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Then David said to Ornan, “Grant me the site of this threshing floor, that I may build an altar to the LORD. Sell it to me for the full price, so that the plague upon the people may be halted.”

1 Chronicles 21:23 (BSB)
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Ornan said to David, “My lord the king may take whatever seems good. Look, I will give the oxen for the burnt offerings, the threshing sledges for the wood, and the wheat for the grain offering—I will give it all.”

1 Chronicles 21:24 (BSB)
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“No,” replied King David, “I insist on paying the full price, for I will not take for the LORD what belongs to you, nor will I offer burnt offerings that cost me nothing.”

1 Chronicles 21:25 (BSB)
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So David paid Ornan six hundred shekels of gold for the site.

1 Chronicles 21:26 (BSB)
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And there he built an altar to the LORD and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. He called upon the LORD, who answered him with fire from heaven on the altar of burnt offering.

1 Chronicles 21:27 (BSB)
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Then the LORD spoke to the angel, who put his sword back into its sheath.

1 Chronicles 21:28 (BSB)
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At that time, when David saw that the LORD had answered him at the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, he offered sacrifices there.

1 Chronicles 21:29 (BSB)
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For the tabernacle of the LORD that Moses had made in the wilderness and the altar of burnt offering were presently at the high place in Gibeon,

1 Chronicles 21:30 (BSB)
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but David could not go before it to inquire of God, because he was afraid of the sword of the angel of the LORD.
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