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New American Standard Bible 1995

2 Samuel 24

The Census Taken

11Now 2again the anger of the Lord burned against Israel, and it incited David against them to say, “3Go, number Israel and Judah.” 2The king said to Joab the commander of the army who was with him, “Go about now through all the tribes of Israel, 4from Dan to Beersheba, and 5register the people, that I may know the number of the people.” 3But Joab said to the king, “6Now may the Lord your God add to the people a hundred times as many as they are, while the eyes of my lord the king still see; but why does my lord the king delight in this thing?” 4Nevertheless, the king’s word prevailed against Joab and against the commanders of the army. So Joab and the commanders of the army went out from the presence of the king to 7register the people of Israel. 5They crossed the Jordan and camped in 8Aroer, on the right side of the city that is in the middle of the valley of Gad and toward 9Jazer. 6Then they came to Gilead and to 10the land of Tahtim-hodshi, and they came to Dan-jaan and around to 11Sidon, 7and came to the 12fortress of Tyre and to all the cities of the 13Hivites and of the Canaanites, and they went out to the south of Judah, to 14Beersheba. 8So when they had gone about through the whole land, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days. 9And Joab gave 15the number of the 16registration of the people to the king; and there were in Israel 17eight hundred thousand valiant men who drew the sword, and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand men.

10Now 18David’s heart 19troubled him after he had numbered the people. So David said to the Lord, “20I have sinned greatly in what I have done. But now, O Lord, please 21take away the iniquity of Your servant, for 22I have acted very foolishly.” 11When David arose in the morning, the word of the Lord came to 23the prophet Gad, David’s 24seer, saying, 12“Go and speak to David, ‘Thus the Lord says, “I am offering you three things; choose for yourself one of them, which I will do to you.”’” 13So Gad came to David and told him, and said to him, “Shall 25seven years of famine come to you in your land? Or will you flee three months before your foes while they pursue you? Or shall there be three days’ pestilence in your land? Now consider and see what answer I shall return to Him who sent me.” 14Then David said to Gad, “I am in great distress. Let us now fall into the hand of the Lord 26for His mercies are great, but do not let me fall into the hand of man.”

Pestilence Sent

15So 27the Lord 28sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning until the appointed time, and seventy thousand men of the people 29from Dan to Beersheba died. 1630When the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, 31the Lord relented from the calamity and said to the angel who destroyed the people, “It is enough! Now relax your hand!” And the angel of the Lord was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite. 17Then David spoke to the Lord when he saw the angel who was striking down the people, and said, “Behold, 32it is I who have sinned, and it is I who have done wrong; but 33these sheep, what have they done? Please let Your hand be against me and against my father’s house.”

David Builds an Altar

18So Gad came to David that day and said to him, “34Go up, erect an altar to the Lord on the threshing floor of 35Araunah the Jebusite.” 19David went up according to the word of Gad, just as the Lord had commanded. 20Araunah looked down and saw the king and his servants crossing over toward him; and Araunah went out and bowed his face to the ground before the king. 21Then Araunah said, “Why has my lord the king come to his servant?” And David said, “To buy the threshing floor from you, in order to build an altar to the Lord, 36that the plague may be held back from the people.” 22Araunah said to David, “Let my lord the king take and offer up what is good in his sight. Look, 37the oxen for the burnt offering, the threshing sledges and the yokes of the oxen for the wood. 23Everything, O king, Araunah gives to the king.” And Araunah said to the king, “May the Lord your God 38accept you.” 24However, the king said to Araunah, “No, but I will surely buy it from you for a price, for 39I will not offer burnt offerings to the Lord my God 40which cost me nothing.” So 41David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver. 25David built there an altar to the Lord and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. 42Thus the Lord was moved by prayer for the land, and the plague was held back from Israel.

Notes

  1. 1. 2 Samuel 24:1 1 Chr 21:1 ↩
  2. 2. 2 Samuel 24:1 2 Sam 21:1, 2 ↩
  3. 3. 2 Samuel 24:1 1 Chr 27:23, 24 ↩
  4. 4. 2 Samuel 24:2 Judg 20:1; 2 Sam 3:10 ↩
  5. 5. 2 Samuel 24:2 Lit muster ↩
  6. 6. 2 Samuel 24:3 Deut 1:11 ↩
  7. 7. 2 Samuel 24:4 Lit muster ↩
  8. 8. 2 Samuel 24:5 Deut 2:36; Josh 13:9, 16 ↩
  9. 9. 2 Samuel 24:5 Num 21:32; 32:35 ↩
  10. 10. 2 Samuel 24:6 Or Kadesh in the land of the Hittite ↩
  11. 11. 2 Samuel 24:6 Josh 19:28; Judg 1:31 ↩
  12. 12. 2 Samuel 24:7 Josh 19:29 ↩
  13. 13. 2 Samuel 24:7 Josh 11:3; Judg 3:3 ↩
  14. 14. 2 Samuel 24:7 Gen 21:22-33 ↩
  15. 15. 2 Samuel 24:9 Num 1:44-46 ↩
  16. 16. 2 Samuel 24:9 Lit muster ↩
  17. 17. 2 Samuel 24:9 1 Chr 21:5 ↩
  18. 18. 2 Samuel 24:10 1 Sam 24:5 ↩
  19. 19. 2 Samuel 24:10 Lit smote ↩
  20. 20. 2 Samuel 24:10 2 Sam 12:13 ↩
  21. 21. 2 Samuel 24:10 Lit cause to pass away ↩
  22. 22. 2 Samuel 24:10 1 Sam 13:13; 2 Chr 16:9 ↩
  23. 23. 2 Samuel 24:11 1 Sam 22:5; 1 Chr 29:29 ↩
  24. 24. 2 Samuel 24:11 1 Sam 9:9 ↩
  25. 25. 2 Samuel 24:13 1 Chr 21:12; Ezek 14:21 ↩
  26. 26. 2 Samuel 24:14 Ps 51:1; 130:4, 7 ↩
  27. 27. 2 Samuel 24:15 1 Chr 21:14; 27:24 ↩
  28. 28. 2 Samuel 24:15 Lit gave ↩
  29. 29. 2 Samuel 24:15 2 Sam 24:2 ↩
  30. 30. 2 Samuel 24:16 Ex 12:23; 2 Kin 19:35; Acts 12:23 ↩
  31. 31. 2 Samuel 24:16 Ex 32:14; 1 Sam 15:11 ↩
  32. 32. 2 Samuel 24:17 2 Sam 24:10 ↩
  33. 33. 2 Samuel 24:17 2 Sam 7:8; Ps 74:1 ↩
  34. 34. 2 Samuel 24:18 1 Chr 21:18 ↩
  35. 35. 2 Samuel 24:18 In 2 Chr 3:1, Ornan ↩
  36. 36. 2 Samuel 24:21 Num 16:44-50 ↩
  37. 37. 2 Samuel 24:22 1 Sam 6:14; 1 Kin 19:21 ↩
  38. 38. 2 Samuel 24:23 Ezek 20:40, 41 ↩
  39. 39. 2 Samuel 24:24 Mal 1:13, 14 ↩
  40. 40. 2 Samuel 24:24 Lit gratuitously ↩
  41. 41. 2 Samuel 24:24 1 Chr 21:24, 25 ↩
  42. 42. 2 Samuel 24:25 2 Sam 21:14 ↩

Commentaries on 2 Samuel 24

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