Znaleziono 6746 Wyniki dla: Trust In The Lord
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)
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)
So the Lord sent a plague upon Israel, from that morning till the time he had appointed; and it raged all the way from Dan to Bersabee, till seventy thousand men had perished. (2 Samuel 24, 15)
But when the angel of the Lord was stretching out his hand over Jerusalem, to bring destruction on it, the Lord was moved with pity over their calamity, and said to the angel who was smiting the people down, It is enough, stay thy hand. The angel of the Lord stood close, then, to the threshing-floor of Areuna the Jebusite. (2 Samuel 24, 16)
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)
So David went up, in obedience to the command which the Lord had given him through Gad; (2 Samuel 24, 19)
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)
All this is Areuna’s royal gift to the king.✻ And may the Lord, Areuna added, grant thy prayer. (2 Samuel 24, 23)
But the king would not let him have his will; Nay, said he, I must buy it from thee; the victims I offer to the Lord my God must not be procured without cost. So David bought threshing-floor and ox-team for fifty silver pieces; (2 Samuel 24, 24)
there he built an altar to the Lord, and there he brought burnt-sacrifice and welcome-offering. So the land was received back into the Lord’s favour, and the plague disappeared from Israel. (2 Samuel 24, 25)
Thereupon Nathan said to Solomon’s mother Bethsabee, Hast thou heard the news that Haggith’s son Adonias has come to the throne, and our lord king David none the wiser? (1 Kings 1, 11)
