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Joab replied, 'May Yahweh multiply his people to a hundred times what they are today! But my lord king, are they not all my lord's servants in any case? Why should my lord insist on this? Why should he involve Israel in guilt?' (1 Chronicles 21, 3)
Yahweh then spoke to Gad, David's seer, (1 Chronicles 21, 9)
'Go and say to David, "Yahweh says this: I offer you three things; choose which one of them I am to inflict on you." ' (1 Chronicles 21, 10)
So Gad went to David and said, 'Yahweh says this, (1 Chronicles 21, 11)
"Take your choice between three years of famine; or three months of disaster at the hands of your enemies, with your enemies' sword overtaking you; or three days of Yahweh's sword, an epidemic in the country, while the angel of Yahweh wreaks havoc throughout the territory of Israel." (1 Chronicles 21, 12)
David said to Gad, 'I am very apprehensive. Better for me to fall into Yahweh's hand, since his mercies are very great, than for me to fall into the hands of human enemies.' (1 Chronicles 21, 13)
So Yahweh unleashed an epidemic on Israel, and seventy thousand Israelites succumbed. (1 Chronicles 21, 14)
Next, God sent the angel to Jerusalem to destroy it, but as he was about to destroy it, Yahweh looked down and felt sorry about the calamity; and he said to the destroying angel, 'Enough now! Hold your hand!' The angel of Yahweh was standing by the thresh-floor of Ornan the Jebusite. (1 Chronicles 21, 15)
David, raising his eyes, saw the angel of Yahweh standing between earth and heaven, a drawn sword in his hand stretched out towards Jerusalem. David and the elders then put on sackcloth and fell on their faces, (1 Chronicles 21, 16)
and David said to God, 'Did I not order the people to be counted? I was the one who sinned and actually committed the wrong. But these, the flock, what have they done? Yahweh my God, let your hand lie heavy on me and on my family; but spare your people from the plague!' (1 Chronicles 21, 17)
The angel of Yahweh then ordered Gad to tell David that David should go up and erect an altar to Yahweh on the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite. (1 Chronicles 21, 18)
So, at Gad's bidding, given in Yahweh's name, David went up. (1 Chronicles 21, 19)
