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Play the man; fight we valiantly for our people, and for the city walls that are sacred to our God; the Lord’s will be done. (1 Chronicles 19, 13)
Why, said Joab, my prayer is that the Lord may increase the number of his people a hundredfold. But, my lord king, are we not all at thy service? What need, my lord, to carry out such a design as may bring guilt on the whole of Israel?✻ (1 Chronicles 21, 3)
But meanwhile, in his displeasure at the command given, the Lord had begun to smite down Israel; (1 Chronicles 21, 7)
whereupon David confessed to the Lord, I have sinned greatly in what I have done; give my sin quittance; I have played a fool’s part. (1 Chronicles 21, 8)
And the word of the Lord came to Gad, that was David’s seer, (1 Chronicles 21, 9)
Go and give David this message from the Lord; Here are three choices I grant thee, to choose thy own punishment. (1 Chronicles 21, 10)
So Gad presented himself before David, bidding him in the Lord’s name make his choice. (1 Chronicles 21, 11)
Wilt thou have three years of famine, he asked, or three months of flight before thy enemies, and yet no escape, or three days in which the Lord’s own sword of pestilence shall pass through the land, his angel dealing death all through the realm of Israel? Think well, and tell me what answer I shall make to him whose message I bear. (1 Chronicles 21, 12)
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. (1 Chronicles 21, 13)
So the Lord sent a plague on Israel, by which seventy thousand men perished. (1 Chronicles 21, 14)
But when his angel reached Jerusalem, ready to carry out his errand and smite it, the Lord was moved with pity over their great calamity; and he said to the angel that would have smitten them, It is enough, stay thy hand. The angel of the Lord stood close, then, to the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite; (1 Chronicles 21, 15)
Nay, said David to the Lord, was it not at my command that the muster-roll was taken? The sin is mine, the fault is mine; these poor sheep of mine, what wrong have they done? Against me turn thy hand, O Lord my God, and against my father’s race; let the people be smitten no more. (1 Chronicles 21, 17)
