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David said to Joab and to the senior army officers, "Go, and take a census of Israel, from Beersheba to Dan, then come back that I may know their number." (1 Chronicles 21, 2)
Joab said, "May Yahweh multiply the people a hundred times! My lord king, are they not all your servants? Why do you want to do this? Will you bring guilt upon Israel?" (1 Chronicles 21, 3)
But the king enforced his order on Joab, and Joab went away, traveling through the whole country of Israel before he returned to Jerusalem. (1 Chronicles 21, 4)
Joab gave David the figures for the census of the people: the whole of Israel numbered one million, one hundred thousand men capable of drawing sword, and Judah four hundred and seventy thousand capable of drawing sword. (1 Chronicles 21, 5)
God looked with displeasure on what had been done and so he began to punish Israel. (1 Chronicles 21, 7)
three years of famine, three months running away from the armies of your enemies, or three days of Yahweh's own sword, an epidemic in your land, with Yahweh's destroying angel bringing death throughout Israel.' Now decide how I am to answer him who sends me." (1 Chronicles 21, 12)
So Yahweh sent an epidemic on Israel, and seventy thousand men of the Israelites died. (1 Chronicles 21, 14)
Then David said, "Here is where the Temple of Yahweh God will be; and this is where the people of Israel are to offer burnt offerings." (1 Chronicles 22, 1)
David gave orders to gather all the strangers living in the land of Israel and he set stonecutters to prepare stone blocks for building the Temple of God. (1 Chronicles 22, 2)
He then sent for his son Solomon and instructed him to build a Temple for Yahweh, the God of Israel, (1 Chronicles 22, 6)
But now a son is born to you. He shall be a man of peace, and I will give him peace from all the enemies that surround him; for Solomon is his name, and in his days I will give Israel peace and quiet. (1 Chronicles 22, 9)
He shall build a temple for my name; he shall be a son to me and I a father to him. His dynasty will rule Israel forever. (1 Chronicles 22, 10)
