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The First Book of Chronicles, starting at chapter 19
{19:1} It happened after this, that Nahash the king of the children
of Ammon died, and his son reigned in his place. {19:2} David said, "I
will show kindness to Hanun the son of Nahash, because his father
showed kindness to me."
So David sent messengers to comfort him concerning his father.
David's servants came into the land of the children of Ammon to Hanun,
to comfort him. {19:3} But the princes of the children of Ammon said
to Hanun, "Do you think that David honors your father, in that he has
sent comforters to you? Haven't his servants come to you to search, to
overthrow, and to spy out the land?" {19:4} So Hanun took David's
servants, and shaved them, and cut off their garments in the middle,
even to their buttocks, and sent them away. {19:5} Then there went
certain persons, and told David how the men were served. He sent to
meet them; for the men were greatly ashamed. The king said, "Stay at
Jericho until your beards have grown, and then return."
{19:6} When the children of Ammon saw that they had made themselves
odious to David, Hanun and the children of Ammon sent one thousand
talents of silver to hire them chariots and horsemen out of
Mesopotamia, and out of Arammaacah, and out of Zobah. {19:7} So they
hired for themselves thirty-two thousand chariots, and the king of
Maacah and his people, who came and encamped before Medeba. The
children of Ammon gathered themselves together from their cities, and
came to battle. {19:8} When David heard of it, he sent Joab, and all
the army of the mighty men. {19:9} The children of Ammon came out, and
put the battle in array at the gate of the city: and the kings who had
come were by themselves in the field. {19:10} Now when Joab saw that
the battle was set against him before and behind, he chose of all the
choice men of Israel, and put them in array against the Syrians.
{19:11} The rest of the people he committed into the hand of Abishai
his brother; and they put themselves in array against the children of
Ammon. {19:12} He said, "If the Syrians are too strong for me, then
you are to help me; but if the children of Ammon are too strong for
you, then I will help you. {19:13} Be courageous, and let us be strong
for our people, and for the cities of our God. May the LORD do that
which seems good to him."
{19:14} So Joab and the people who were with him drew near before
the Syrians to the battle; and they fled before him. {19:15} When the
children of Ammon saw that the Syrians had fled, they likewise fled
before Abishai his brother, and entered into the city. Then Joab came
to Jerusalem. {19:16} When the Syrians saw that they were defeated by
Israel, they sent messengers, and drew forth the Syrians who were
beyond the River, with Shophach the captain of the army of Hadadezer
at their head. {19:17} It was told David; and he gathered all Israel
together, and passed over the Jordan, and came on them, and set the
battle in array against them. So when David had put the battle in
array against the Syrians, they fought with him. {19:18} The Syrians
fled before Israel; and David killed of the Syrians the men of seven
thousand chariots, and forty thousand footmen, and killed Shophach the
captain of the army. {19:19} When the servants of Hadadezer saw that
they were defeated by Israel, they made peace with David, and served
him: neither would the Syrians help the children of Ammon any more.
{20:1} It happened, at the time of the return of the year, at the
time when kings go out, that Joab led forth the army, and wasted the
country of the children of Ammon, and came and besieged Rabbah. But
David stayed at Jerusalem. Joab struck Rabbah, and overthrew it.
{20:2} David took the crown of their king from off his head, and found
it to weigh a talent of gold, and there were precious stones in it;
and it was set on David's head: and he brought forth the spoil of the
city, exceeding much. {20:3} He brought forth the people who were
therein, and cut them with saws, and with iron picks, and with axes.
David did so to all the cities of the children of Ammon. David and all
the people returned to Jerusalem. {20:4} It happened after this, that
there arose war at Gezer with the Philistines: then Sibbecai the
Hushathite killed Sippai, of the sons of the giant; and they were
subdued. {20:5} There was again war with the Philistines; and Elhanan
the son of Jair killed Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the
staff of whose spear was like a weaver's beam. {20:6} There was again
war at Gath, where there was a man of great stature, whose fingers and
toes were twenty-four, six on each hand, and six on each foot; and he
also was born to the giant. {20:7} When he defied Israel, Jonathan the
son of Shimea David's brother killed him. {20:8} These were born to
the giant in Gath; and they fell by the hand of David, and by the hand
of his servants.
{21:1} Satan stood up against Israel, and moved David to number
Israel. {21:2} David said to Joab and to the princes of the people,
"Go, number Israel from Beersheba even to Dan; and bring me word, that
I may know the sum of them."
{21:3} Joab said, "May the LORD make his people a hundred times as
many as they are. But, my lord the king, aren't they all my lord's
servants? Why does my lord require this thing? Why will he be a cause
of guilt to Israel?"
{21:4} Nevertheless the king's word prevailed against Joab.
Therefore Joab departed, and went throughout all Israel, and came to
Jerusalem. {21:5} Joab gave up the sum of the numbering of the people
to David. All those of Israel were one million one hundred thousand
men who drew sword: and in Judah were four hundred seventy thousand
men who drew sword. {21:6} But he didn't count Levi and Benjamin among
them; for the king's word was abominable to Joab. {21:7} God was
displeased with this thing; therefore he struck Israel. {21:8} David
said to God, "I have sinned greatly, in that I have done this thing.
But now, put away, I beg you, the iniquity of your servant; for I have
done very foolishly."
{21:9} The LORD spoke to Gad, David's seer, saying, {21:10} "Go and
speak to David, saying, 'Thus says the LORD, "I offer you three
things. Choose one of them, that I may do it to you."'"
{21:11} So Gad came to David, and said to him, "Thus says the LORD,
'Take your choice: {21:12} either three years of famine; or three
months to be consumed before your foes, while the sword of your
enemies overtakes you; or else three days the sword of the LORD, even
pestilence in the land, and the angel of the LORD destroying
throughout all the borders of Israel. Now therefore consider what
answer I shall return to him who sent me.'"
{21:13} David said to Gad, "I am in distress. Let me fall, I pray,
into the hand of the LORD; for his mercies are very great. Let me not
fall into the hand of man."
{21:14} So the LORD sent a pestilence on Israel; and seventy
thousand men of Israel fell. {21:15} God sent an angel to Jerusalem to
destroy it. As he was about to destroy, the LORD saw, and he relented
of the disaster, and said to the destroying angel, "It is enough; now
stay your hand." The angel of the LORD was standing by the threshing
floor of Ornan the Jebusite. {21:16} David lifted up his eyes, and saw
the angel of the LORD standing between earth and the sky, having a
drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem.
Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell on their
faces. {21:17} David said to God, "Isn't it I who commanded the people
to be numbered? It is even I who have sinned and done very wickedly;
but these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand, O LORD my
God, be against me, and against my father's house; but not against
your people, that they should be plagued."
{21:18} Then the angel of the LORD commanded Gad to tell David that
David should go up, and raise an altar to the LORD in the threshing
floor of Ornan the Jebusite. {21:19} David went up at the saying of
Gad, which he spoke in the name of the LORD. {21:20} Ornan turned
back, and saw the angel; and his four sons who were with him hid
themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat. {21:21} As David came to
Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David, and went out of the threshing
floor, and bowed himself to David with his face to the ground. {21:22}
Then David said to Ornan, "Give me the place of this threshing floor,
that I may build thereon an altar to the LORD. You shall sell it to me
for the full price, that the plague may be stopped from afflicting the
people."
{21:23} Ornan said to David, "Take it for yourself, and let my lord
the king do that which is good in his eyes. Behold, I give the oxen
for burnt offerings, and the threshing instruments for wood, and the
wheat for the meal offering. I give it all."
{21:24} King David said to Ornan, "No; but I will most certainly buy
it for the full price. For I will not take that which is yours for the
LORD, nor offer a burnt offering without cost."
{21:25} So David gave to Ornan six hundred shekels of gold by weight
for the place. {21:26} David built an altar to the LORD there, and
offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and called on the LORD;
and he answered him from the sky by fire on the altar of burnt
offering. {21:27} The LORD commanded the angel; and he put up his
sword again into its sheath. {21:28} At that time, when David saw that
the LORD had answered him in the threshing floor of Ornan the
Jebusite, then he sacrificed there. {21:29} For the tabernacle of the
LORD, which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of burnt
offering, were at that time in the high place at Gibeon. {21:30} But
David couldn't go before it to inquire of God; for he was afraid
because of the sword of the angel of the LORD.
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