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Then David said to God, "I have sinned greatly in doing this thing. Take away your servant's guilt, for I have acted very foolishly." (1 Chronicles 21, 8)
Then the LORD spoke to Gad, David's seer, in these words: (1 Chronicles 21, 9)
"Go, tell David: Thus says the LORD: I offer you three alternatives; choose one of them, and I will inflict it on you." (1 Chronicles 21, 10)
Accordingly, Gad went to David and said to him; "Thus says the LORD: Decide now-- (1 Chronicles 21, 11)
Then David said to Gad: "I am in dire straits. But I prefer to fall into the hand of the LORD, whose mercy is very great, than into the hands of men." (1 Chronicles 21, 13)
When David raised his eyes, he saw the angel of the LORD standing between earth and heaven, with a naked sword in his hand stretched out against Jerusalem. David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, prostrated themselves face to the ground, (1 Chronicles 21, 16)
and David prayed to God: "Was it not I who ordered the census of the people? I am the one who sinned, I did this wicked thing. But these sheep, what have they done? O LORD, my God, strike me and my father's family, but do not afflict your people with this plague!" (1 Chronicles 21, 17)
Then the angel of the LORD commanded Gad to tell David to go up and erect an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. (1 Chronicles 21, 18)
David went up at Gad's command, given in the name of the LORD. (1 Chronicles 21, 19)
But as David came on toward him, he looked up and saw that it was David. Then he left the threshing floor and bowed down before David, his face to the ground. (1 Chronicles 21, 21)
David said to Ornan: "Sell me the ground of this threshing floor, that I may build on it an altar to the LORD. Sell it to me at its full price, that the plague may be stayed from the people." (1 Chronicles 21, 22)
But Ornan said to David: "Take it as your own, and let my lord the king do what seems best to him. See, I also give you the oxen for the holocausts, the threshing sledges for the wood, and the wheat for the cereal offering. I give it all to you." (1 Chronicles 21, 23)
