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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)
And Joab gave in the register to the king; it proved that there were eight hundred thousand warriors that bore arms in Israel, and five hundred thousand in Juda. (2 Samuel 24, 9)
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)
So David went up, in obedience to the command which the Lord had given him through Gad; (2 Samuel 24, 19)
and when Areuna looked round, to see the king and the king’s servants coming towards him, (2 Samuel 24, 20)
he came forward, bowing down with his face to the ground to do the king reverence. What would my lord king with his servant? he asked. And David said, I have come to buy thy threshing-floor; I must build an altar here to the Lord, to put an end to the mortality which goes unhindered among the people. (2 Samuel 24, 21)
