Talált 894 Eredmények: David's Monarchy
These men were descended from Raphaim of Gath and they were killed by David and his guards. (1 Chronicles 20, 8)
Satan wanted to bring trouble on the people of Israel and so he made David take a census of the Israelites. (1 Chronicles 21, 1)
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 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)
Then David said to God, "I have sinned greatly by doing this. But now I beg you to forgive me for this fault. I have been very foolish." (1 Chronicles 21, 8)
Then Yahweh spoke to Gad, David's prophet, (1 Chronicles 21, 9)
"Go and say to David, 'Yahweh says this: I offer you three things; choose one of them for me to do to you." (1 Chronicles 21, 10)
So Gad went to David and said, "Yahweh says this, 'Take your choice: (1 Chronicles 21, 11)
David said to Gad, "This is a hard choice, but let me rather fall into the power of Yahweh, since his mercy is very great; and not into the power of men." (1 Chronicles 21, 13)
David saw the angel of Yahweh standing between the heavens and earth with a naked sword in his hand, ready to destroy Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell on their faces. (1 Chronicles 21, 16)
And David prayed to God, "Was it not I who sinned, by ordering this wicked census? But these, this flock, what have they done? Yahweh my God, let your hand lie heavy on me and on my family; but let your people escape the plague." (1 Chronicles 21, 17)
The angel of Yahweh then said to Gad, "David must go up and build an altar to Yahweh on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite." (1 Chronicles 21, 18)
