Trouvé 1110 Résultats pour: David's Army
Whereupon the three champions broke through the Philistine lines, drew water from the well by the gate of Bethlehem, and brought it to David. Instead of drinking it, he poured it out as a libation to the Lord; (2 Samuel 23, 16)
he, too, was one of the three champions that were foremost among the Thirty, but he could not rival the first three. He was the man David appointed to carry out his secret commands. (2 Samuel 23, 23)
But still the Lord’s vengeance threatened Israel; and now it was through David he disturbed their peace, with a design for registering Israel and Juda.✻ (2 Samuel 24, 1)
The king said to Joab, the chief of his army, Go through all the tribes of Israel from Dan to Bersabee, and make a muster-roll of the people, so that I may know the full tale of them. (2 Samuel 24, 2)
But all that Joab and the captains of the army could say might not thwart the king’s will; so Joab and the other commanders left the king’s presence to make a register of Israel. (2 Samuel 24, 4)
But, now the count of Israel had been made, David’s heart reproached him. And he confessed to the Lord, I have sinned greatly in what I have done; Lord, give my sin quittance; I have played a fool’s part.✻ (2 Samuel 24, 10)
And by the time he rose next morning, the word of the Lord had come to the prophet Gad, that was David’s seer, (2 Samuel 24, 11)
Go and give David this message from the Lord; he is given a threefold choice, and he must choose his own punishment among the three. (2 Samuel 24, 12)
So Gad went to David with the message: Wilt thou have seven years of famine in thy country, or three months of flight from the pursuit of thy enemies, or three days in which thy country is smitten with plague? Think well, and tell me what answer I shall make to him whose word I bear thee. (2 Samuel 24, 13)
I am hard pressed on all sides, David told him; but it is better to fall into the hands of the Lord, so rich is he in mercy, than into the hands of men. (2 Samuel 24, 14)
David, when he saw how the angel was smiting the people down, had said to the Lord, The sin is mine, the fault is mine; these poor sheep of mine, what wrong have they done? Nay, turn thy hand against me, and my own father’s race! (2 Samuel 24, 17)
Then Gad brought David the message, Go up to the threshing-floor of Areuna the Jebusite, and build an altar there. (2 Samuel 24, 18)
