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"Go, and give David this message: I offer you three things and I will let one of them befall you according to your own choice." (2 Samuel 24, 12)
So Gad went to David and asked him, "Do you want three years of famine in your land? Or do you want to be pursued for three months by your foes while you flee from them? Or do you want three days' pestilence in your land? Now, think and decide what answer I shall give him who sent me." (2 Samuel 24, 13)
David answered Gad, "I am greatly troubled. Let me fall into the hands of Yahweh whose mercy is abundant; but let me not fall into the hands of men." (2 Samuel 24, 14)
When David saw the angel striking the people, he spoke to Yahweh and said, "I have sinned and acted wickedly, but these are only the sheep; what have they done? Let your hand strike me and my father's family." (2 Samuel 24, 17)
Gad went to David that day and said to him, "Go, set up an altar to Yahweh on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite." (2 Samuel 24, 18)
So David left to follow Yahweh's command made through Gad. (2 Samuel 24, 19)
"Why has my lord the king come to his servant?" David answered, "I will buy your threshing floor in order to build an altar to Yahweh so that the plague may end among the people." (2 Samuel 24, 21)
Then Araunah said to David, "Let my lord the king take the threshing floor and offer the sacrifice that seems good to him: here you have my oxen for the burnt offering, the threshing sledges, and the oxen's yokes for the wood. (2 Samuel 24, 22)
But the king said to Araunah, "No, I will pay you for all this, for I will not offer to Yahweh my God something that costs me nothing." So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver. (2 Samuel 24, 24)
David built there an altar to Yahweh and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. So Yahweh had mercy on the land and the plague ended in Israel. (2 Samuel 24, 25)
King David was already a very old man who could no longer keep warm even in very thick clothing. (1 Kings 1, 1)
but Zadok, the priest, and Benaiah, son of Jehoiada; Nathan, the prophet; Shimei, Rei and David's warriors did not join Adonijah. (1 Kings 1, 8)
