Fondare 2989 Risultati per: King David
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)
The king said to Joab and the senior army officers who were with him, 'Now, go through all the tribes of Israel from Dan to Beersheba, and take a census of the people; I wish to know the size of the population.' (2 Samuel 24, 2)
Joab said to the king, 'May Yahweh your God multiply the people a hundred times -- however many there are -- while my lord the king still has eyes to see it, but why should my lord the king be set on this?' (2 Samuel 24, 3)
The king nonetheless enforced his order on Joab and the senior officers, and Joab and the senior officers left the king's presence, to take a census of the people of Israel. (2 Samuel 24, 4)
Joab gave the king the census results for the people; Israel had eight hundred thousand fighting men who could wield a sword, and Judah five hundred thousand. (2 Samuel 24, 9)
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)
