The First Book of Divre Hayamim, starting at chapter 19
{19:1} It happened after this, that Nachash 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 Nachash, because his father
shown 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, Think you that David does honor
your father, in that he has sent comforters to you? Aren't his
servants come to you to search, and 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 Yericho until your beards be 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 Aram-Naharayim, and out of Arammaacah, and out of Tzovah. {19:7} So
they hired them thirty-two thousand chariots, and the king of Ma`akhah
and his people, who came and encamped before Medeva. The children of
`Ammon gathered themselves together from their cities, and came to
battle. {19:8} When David heard of it, he sent Yo'av, and all the host
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 Yo'av saw that the
battle was set against him before and behind, he chose of all the
choice men of Yisra'el, and put them in array against the Aram.
{19:11} The rest of the people he committed into the hand of Avishai
his brother; and they put themselves in array against the children of
`Ammon. {19:12} He said, If the Aram be too strong for me, then you
shall help me; but if the children of `Ammon be too strong for you,
then I will help you. {19:13} Be of good courage, and let us play the
man for our people, and for the cities of our God: and the LORD do
that which seems him good. {19:14} So Yo'av and the people who were
with him drew near before the Aram to the battle; and they fled before
him. {19:15} When the children of `Ammon saw that the Aram were fled,
they likewise fled before Avishai his brother, and entered into the
city. Then Yo'av came to Yerushalayim. {19:16} When the Aram saw that
they were put to the worse before Yisra'el, they sent messengers, and
drew forth the Aram who were beyond the River, with Shophach the
captain of the host of Hadad`ezer at their head. {19:17} It was told
David; and he gathered all Yisra'el together, and passed over the
Yarden, and came on them, and set the battle in array against them. So
when David had put the battle in array against the Aram, they fought
with him. {19:18} The Aram fled before Yisra'el; and David killed of
the Aram [the men of] seven thousand chariots, and forty thousand
footmen, and killed Shophach the captain of the host. {19:19} When the
servants of Hadad`ezer saw that they were put to the worse before
Yisra'el, they made shalom with David, and served him: neither would
the Aram 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 [to battle], that Yo'av led forth the army, and
wasted the country of the children of `Ammon, and came and besieged
Rabbah. But David stayed at Yerushalayim. Yo'av 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 harrows of iron,
and with axes. Thus did David to all the cities of the children of
`Ammon. David and all the people returned to Yerushalayim. {20:4} It
happened after this, that there arose war at Gezer with the Pelishtim:
then Sibbekhai the Hushatite killed Sippai, of the sons of the Rafa;
and they were subdued. {20:5} There was again war with the Pelishtim;
and Elchanan the son of Ya'ir killed Lachmi the brother of Golyat the
Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver's beam. {20:6}
There was again war at Gat, where 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 Rafa. {20:7} When he defied
Yisra'el, Yonatan the son of Shim`a David's brother killed him. {20:8}
These were born to the Rafa in Gat; and they fell by the hand of
David, and by the hand of his servants.
{21:1} Hasatan stood up against Yisra'el, and moved David to number
Yisra'el. {21:2} David said to Yo'av and to the princes of the people,
Go, number Yisra'el from Be'er-Sheva even to Dan; and bring me word,
that I may know the sum of them. {21:3} Yo'av said, 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 Yisra'el? {21:4}
Nevertheless the king's word prevailed against Yo'av. Therefore Yo'av
departed, and went throughout all Yisra'el, and came to Yerushalayim.
{21:5} Yo'av gave up the sum of the numbering of the people to David.
All those of Yisra'el were one million one hundred thousand men who
drew sword: and in Yehudah were four hundred seventy thousand men who
drew sword. {21:6} But he didn't count Levi and Binyamin among them;
for the king's word was abominable to Yo'av. {21:7} God was displeased
with this thing; therefore he struck Yisra'el. {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 you 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 which
you will: {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 Yisra'el. Now therefore consider what answer I shall return to him
who sent me. {21:13} David said to Gad, I am in a great strait: let me
fall, I pray, into the hand of the LORD; for very great are his
mercies: and let me not fall into the hand of man. {21:14} So the LORD
sent a pestilence on Yisra'el; and there fell of Yisra'el seventy
thousand men. {21:15} God sent an angel to Yerushalayim to destroy it:
and as he was about to destroy, the LORD saw, and he repented him of
the evil, 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 Yevusi. {21:16} David lifted up his eyes, and saw the
angel of the LORD standing between [1>]eretz[<1] and the sky, having a
drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Yerushalayim. Then David
and the Zakenim, 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 Yevusi. {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: for
the full price shall you give it me, that the plague may be stayed
from the people. {21:23} Ornan said to David, Take it to you, and let
my lord the king do that which is good in his eyes: behold, I give
[you] 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 assuredly buy it for the full
price: for I will not take that which is your for the LORD, nor offer
a burnt-offering without cost. {21:25} So David gave to Ornan for the
place six hundred shekels of gold by weight. {21:26} David built there
an altar to the LORD, 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 the sheath of it. {21:28} At that time,
when David saw that the LORD had answered him in the threshing floor
of Ornan the Yevusi, then he sacrificed there. {21:29} For the tent of
the LORD, which Moshe made in the wilderness, and the altar of burnt
offering, were at that time in the high place at Giv`on. {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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Footnotes:
[1] {21:16} earth
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