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As for the people in the city, he brought them out and had harrows and sleds and chariots of iron driven over them, till they lay cut to pieces or crushed, and the same treatment he gave to all the cities of Ammon. Then he and all his men returned to Jerusalem.✻ (1 Chronicles 20, 3)
But now Satan disturbed the peace of Israel, by inciting David to make a re-gister of the people. (1 Chronicles 21, 1)
From David the word came to Joab and to the rulers of the people, Go through all the tribes from Dan to Bersabee, make a muster-roll, and let me know the full tale of them. (1 Chronicles 21, 2)
Why, said Joab, my prayer is that the Lord may increase the number of his people a hundredfold. But, my lord king, are we not all at thy service? What need, my lord, to carry out such a design as may bring guilt on the whole of Israel?✻ (1 Chronicles 21, 3)
Nay, said David to the Lord, was it not at my command that the muster-roll was taken? The sin is mine, the fault is mine; these poor sheep of mine, what wrong have they done? Against me turn thy hand, O Lord my God, and against my father’s race; let the people be smitten no more. (1 Chronicles 21, 17)
Give me, David said, this site of thy threshing-floor, to build an altar to the Lord here; ask what price thou wilt, only let the people be plagued no more. (1 Chronicles 21, 22)
and may he grant thee prudence and discernment, in ruling thy people of Israel and in holding fast by the law of the Lord thy God. (1 Chronicles 22, 12)
You can see for yourselves, he told them, that the Lord your God is with you; has he not secured all your frontiers from attack, and given you the mastery over your enemies, so that the whole land now gives ready obedience to the Lord and to the Lord’s people? (1 Chronicles 22, 18)
the Lord God of Israel, thought David, has given his people a resting-place, and made Jerusalem their home for ever; (1 Chronicles 23, 25)
Yet, when he would grant Israel an abiding dynasty, it was on me, alone of my father’s house, that his choice fell. Out of all the tribes he has chosen Juda, out of all Juda my father’s house; and of all my father’s sons, who but I was to be king of all Israel? (1 Chronicles 28, 4)
And he is choosing still; many sons he has given me, and among all these it is Solomon that is to reach a throne, king of the Lord’s own people. (1 Chronicles 28, 5)
So the Lord himself has told me: It is Solomon, thy heir, that shall build house and court for me. I have chosen him for my son, and he shall find in me a true father; (1 Chronicles 28, 6)
