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2 Samuel 24

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  1. 1And again the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he moved David against them to say, Go, number Israel and Judah.38 cross-references: 1 Chronicles 21:1, 1 Chronicles 27:23–24, James 1:13–14, 1 Samuel 26:19, Genesis 50:20
  2. 2For the king said to Joab the captain of the host, which was with him, Go now through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan even to Beer–sheba, and number ye the people, that I may know the number of the people.21 cross-references: 2 Samuel 3:10, Judges 20:1, 2 Samuel 20:23, Proverbs 29:23, 2 Chronicles 32:31
  3. 3And Joab said unto the king, Now the Lord thy God add unto the people, how many soever they be, an hundredfold, and that the eyes of my lord the king may see it: but why doth my lord the king delight in this thing?14 cross-references: Deuteronomy 1:11, Psalms 115:14, Isaiah 60:5, Proverbs 14:28, 2 Samuel 10:12
  4. 4Notwithstanding the king’s word prevailed against Joab, and against the captains of the host. And Joab and the captains of the host went out from the presence of the king, to number the people of Israel.4 cross-references: Ecclesiastes 8:4, Acts 5:29, Exodus 1:17, 1 Chronicles 21:4
  5. 5And they passed over Jordan, and pitched in Aroer, on the right side of the city that lieth in the midst of the river of Gad, and toward Jazer:13 cross-references: Joshua 13:9, Deuteronomy 2:36, Joshua 13:16, Numbers 32:3, Numbers 32:1
  6. 6Then they came to Gilead, and to the land of Tahtim–hodshi; and they came to Dan–jaan, and about to Zidon,10 cross-references: Joshua 19:28, Genesis 31:21, Numbers 32:1, Joshua 19:47, Numbers 32:39
  7. 7And came to the strong hold of Tyre, and to all the cities of the Hivites, and of the Canaanites: and they went out to the south of Judah, even to Beer–sheba.7 cross-references: Joshua 19:29, Joshua 11:3, Genesis 21:22–33, 2 Samuel 24:2, Judges 3:3
  8. 8So when they had gone through all the land, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.
  9. 9And Joab gave up the sum of the number of the people unto the king: and there were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men that drew the sword; and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand men.11 cross-references: 1 Chronicles 27:23–24, 1 Chronicles 21:5–6, Numbers 1:44–46
  10. 10And David’s heart smote him after that he had numbered the people. And David said unto the Lord, I have sinned greatly in that I have done: and now, I beseech thee, O Lord, take away the iniquity of thy servant; for I have done very foolishly.39 cross-references: 2 Samuel 12:13, 1 Samuel 13:13, Proverbs 28:13, 1 Samuel 24:5, 1 Chronicles 21:8
  11. 11For when David was up in the morning, the word of the Lord came unto the prophet Gad, David’s seer, saying,15 cross-references: 1 Samuel 22:5, 1 Samuel 9:9, 1 Chronicles 29:29, 1 Chronicles 2:19
  12. 12Go and say unto David, Thus saith the Lord, I offer thee three things; choose thee one of them, that I may do it unto thee.11 cross-references: Revelation 3:19, Hebrews 12:6–10, Proverbs 3:12, 2 Samuel 12:9–10, Leviticus 26:41
  13. 13So Gad came to David, and told him, and said unto him, Shall seven years of famine come unto thee in thy land? or wilt thou flee three months before thine enemies, while they pursue thee? or that there be three days’ pestilence in thy land? now advise, and see what answer I shall return to him that sent me.26 cross-references: 1 Chronicles 21:12, Leviticus 26:25, 1 Kings 17:1–7, 2 Samuel 21:1, Ezekiel 14:13
  14. 14And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let us fall now into the hand of the Lord; for his mercies are great: and let me not fall into the hand of man.35 cross-references: Psalms 119:156, Psalms 51:1, 1 Chronicles 21:13, Jonah 4:2, Psalms 145:9
  15. 15So the Lord sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning even to the time appointed: and there died of the people from Dan even to Beer–sheba seventy thousand men.19 cross-references: 1 Chronicles 21:14, 1 Chronicles 27:24, Revelation 6:8, 1 Chronicles 27:4, Numbers 25:9
  16. 16And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the Lord repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough: stay now thine hand. And the angel of the Lord was by the threshingplace of Araunah the Jebusite.55 cross-references: Joel 2:13–14, Genesis 6:6, Exodus 12:23, 1 Samuel 15:11, Acts 12:23
  17. 17And David spake unto the Lord when he saw the angel that smote the people, and said, Lo, I have sinned, and I have done wickedly: but these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, be against me, and against my father’s house.26 cross-references: 1 Chronicles 21:16–17, Psalms 74:1, 2 Samuel 24:10, Ezekiel 34:23–24, Job 42:6
  18. 18And Gad came that day to David, and said unto him, Go up, rear an altar unto the Lord in the threshingfloor of Araunah the Jebusite.14 cross-references: 1 Chronicles 21:18–30, 2 Samuel 24:11
  19. 19And David, according to the saying of Gad, went up as the Lord commanded.7 cross-references: Hebrews 11:8, 2 Chronicles 20:20, Nehemiah 9:26, 1 Chronicles 21:19, 2 Chronicles 36:16
  20. 20And Araunah looked, and saw the king and his servants coming on toward him: and Araunah went out, and bowed himself before the king on his face upon the ground.5 cross-references: Ruth 2:10, 1 Chronicles 21:20–21, 2 Samuel 9:8, Genesis 18:2
  21. 21And Araunah said, Wherefore is my lord the king come to his servant? And David said, To buy the threshingfloor of thee, to build an altar unto the Lord, that the plague may be stayed from the people.10 cross-references: 2 Samuel 24:18, Genesis 23:8–16, Psalms 106:30, 2 Samuel 24:3, Jeremiah 32:6–14
  22. 22And Araunah said unto David, Let my lord the king take and offer up what seemeth good unto him: behold, here be oxen for burnt sacrifice, and threshing instruments and other instruments of the oxen for wood.7 cross-references: 1 Kings 19:21, 1 Samuel 6:14, Genesis 23:11, 1 Chronicles 21:22
  23. 23All these things did Araunah, as a king, give unto the king. And Araunah said unto the king, The Lord thy God accept thee.12 cross-references: Ezekiel 20:40–41, Romans 15:30–31, Isaiah 60:7, Hosea 8:13, Psalms 20:3–4
  24. 24And the king said unto Araunah, Nay; but I will surely buy it of thee at a price: neither will I offer burnt offerings unto the Lord my God of that which doth cost me nothing. So David bought the threshingfloor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.9 cross-references: 1 Chronicles 21:24–25, Malachi 1:12–14, Genesis 23:13, Romans 12:17, 1 Chronicles 22:1
  25. 25And David built there an altar unto the Lord, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. So the Lord was intreated for the land, and the plague was stayed from Israel.16 cross-references: 2 Samuel 21:14, 1 Samuel 7:17, 2 Samuel 24:14, Genesis 8:20, Lamentations 3:32–33

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God, David, Ornan, Gad, Joab, Judah, Dan

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Dan, Beersheba, Jerusalem, Aroer, Jazer, Jordan, Tahtimhodshi, Sidon, Gilead, Tyre, Negeb, Judah

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