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He was a most illustrious member of the Thirty, but he was not equal to the Three. David put him in command of his bodyguard. (2 Samuel 23, 23)
Again, Yahweh's anger was aroused against Israel, and he incited David against them. 'Go,' he said, 'take a census of Israel and Judah.' (2 Samuel 24, 1)
But afterwards David's heart misgave him for having taken a census of the people. David then said to Yahweh, 'I have committed a grave sin by doing this. But now, Yahweh, I beg you to forgive your servant for this fault, for I have acted very foolishly.' (2 Samuel 24, 10)
When, however, David got up next morning, the following message had come from Yahweh to the prophet Gad, David's seer, (2 Samuel 24, 11)
'Go and say to David, "Yahweh says this: I offer you three things; choose which one of them I am to inflict on you." ' (2 Samuel 24, 12)
So Gad went to David and said, 'Which do you prefer: to have three years of famine befall your country; to flee for three months before a pursuing army; or to have three days of epidemic in your country? Now think, and decide how I am to answer him who sends me.' (2 Samuel 24, 13)
David said to Gad, 'I am very apprehensive . . . Better to fall into Yahweh's hands, since his mercies are great, than to fall into the hands of men!' (2 Samuel 24, 14)
So David chose the epidemic. It was the time of the wheat harvest. So Yahweh unleashed an epidemic on Israel from that morning until the time determined; plague ravaged the people and, of the people from Dan to Beersheba, seventy thousand died. (2 Samuel 24, 15)
When David saw the angel who was ravaging the people, he said to Yahweh, 'I was the one who sinned. I was the one who acted wrongly. But these, the flock, what have they done? Let your hand lie heavy on me and on my family!' (2 Samuel 24, 17)
Gad went to David that day and said, 'Go up and raise an altar to Yahweh on the threshing-floor of Araunah the Jebusite.' (2 Samuel 24, 18)
So, at Gad's bidding, David went up, as Yahweh had ordered. (2 Samuel 24, 19)
'Why has my lord the king come to his servant?' Araunah asked. David replied, 'To buy the threshing-floor from you, to build an altar to Yahweh, so that the plague may be lifted from the people.' (2 Samuel 24, 21)
