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Chronicles 19-21
1Ch
19:1 It happened after this, that Nahash the king of the children of
Ammon died, and his son reigned in his place.
1Ch
19:2 David said, I will show kindness to Hanun the son of Nahash,
because his father showed kindness to me. So David sent messengers to
comfort him concerning his father. David's servants came into the
land of the children of Ammon to Hanun, to comfort him.
1Ch
19:3 But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun, Do you
think that David honors your father, in that he has sent comforters
to you? Haven't his servants come to you to search, to overthrow, and
to spy out the land?
1Ch
19:4 So Hanun took David's servants, and shaved them, and cut off
their garments in the middle, even to their buttocks, and sent them
away.
1Ch
19:5 Then there went certain persons, and told David how the men
were served. He sent to meet them; for the men were greatly ashamed.
The king said, Stay at Jericho until your beards have grown, and then
return.
1Ch
19:6 When the children of Ammon saw that they had made themselves
odious to David, Hanun and the children of Ammon sent one thousand
talents of silver to hire them chariots and horsemen out of
Mesopotamia, and out of Arammaacah, and out of Zobah.
1Ch
19:7 So they hired them thirty-two thousand chariots, and the king
of Maacah and his people, who came and encamped before Medeba. The
children of Ammon gathered themselves together from their cities, and
came to battle.
1Ch
19:8 When David heard of it, he sent Joab, and all the army of the
mighty men.
1Ch
19:9 The children of Ammon came out, and put the battle in array at
the gate of the city: and the kings who had come were by themselves
in the field.
1Ch
19:10 Now when Joab saw that the battle was set against him before
and behind, he chose of all the choice men of Israel, and put them in
array against the Syrians.
1Ch
19:11 The rest of the people he committed into the hand of Abishai
his brother; and they put themselves in array against the children of
Ammon.
1Ch
19:12 He said, If the Syrians are too strong for me, then you shall
help me; but if the children of Ammon are too strong for you, then I
will help you.
1Ch
19:13 Be of good courage, and let us be strong for our people, and
for the cities of our God: and Yahweh do that which seems him good.
1Ch
19:14 So Joab and the people who were with him drew near before the
Syrians to the battle; and they fled before him.
1Ch
19:15 When the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians had fled, they
likewise fled before Abishai his brother, and entered into the city.
Then Joab came to Jerusalem.
1Ch
19:16 When the Syrians saw that they were defeated by Israel, they
sent messengers, and drew forth the Syrians who were beyond the
River, with Shophach the captain of the army of Hadadezer at their
head.
1Ch
19:17 It was told David; and he gathered all Israel together, and
passed over the Jordan, and came on them, and set the battle in array
against them. So when David had put the battle in array against the
Syrians, they fought with him.
1Ch
19:18 The Syrians fled before Israel; and David killed of the
Syrians the men of
seven thousand chariots, and forty thousand footmen, and killed
Shophach the captain of the army.
1Ch
19:19 When the servants of Hadadezer saw that they were defeated by
Israel, they made peace with David, and served him: neither would the
Syrians help the children of Ammon any more.
1Ch
20:1 It happened, at the time of the return of the year, at the time
when kings go out to battle,
that Joab led forth the army, and wasted the country of the children
of Ammon, and came and besieged Rabbah. But David stayed at
Jerusalem. Joab struck Rabbah, and overthrew it.
1Ch
20:2 David took the crown of their king from off his head, and found
it to weigh a talent of gold, and there were precious stones in it;
and it was set on David's head: and he brought forth the spoil of the
city, exceeding much.
1Ch
20:3 He brought forth the people who were therein, and cut them
with saws, and with iron picks, and with axes. David did so to all
the cities of the children of Ammon. David and all the people
returned to Jerusalem.
1Ch
20:4 It happened after this, that there arose war at Gezer with the
Philistines: then Sibbecai the Hushathite killed Sippai, of the sons
of the giant; and they were subdued.
1Ch
20:5 There was again war with the Philistines; and Elhanan the son
of Jair killed Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the staff of
whose spear was like a weaver's beam.
1Ch
20:6 There was again war at Gath, where there was a man of great
stature, whose fingers and toes were twenty-four, six on
each hand, and six on
each foot; and he also was born to the
giant.
1Ch
20:7 When he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea David's
brother killed him.
1Ch
20:8 These were born to the giant in Gath; and they fell by the hand
of David, and by the hand of his servants.
1Ch
21:1 Satan stood up against Israel, and moved David to number
Israel.
1Ch
21:2 David said to Joab and to the princes of the people, Go, number
Israel from Beersheba even to Dan; and bring me word, that I may know
the sum of them.
1Ch
21:3 Joab said, Yahweh make his people a hundred times as many as
they are: but, my lord the king, aren't they all my lord's servants?
Why does my lord require this thing? Why will he be a cause of guilt
to Israel?
1Ch
21:4 Nevertheless the king's word prevailed against Joab. Therefore
Joab departed, and went throughout all Israel, and came to Jerusalem.
1Ch
21:5 Joab gave up the sum of the numbering of the people to David.
All those of Israel were one million one hundred thousand men who
drew sword: and in Judah were four hundred seventy thousand men who
drew sword.
1Ch
21:6 But he didn't count Levi and Benjamin among them; for the
king's word was abominable to Joab.
1Ch
21:7 God was displeased with this thing; therefore he struck Israel.
1Ch
21:8 David said to God, I have sinned greatly, in that I have done
this thing: but now, put away, I beg you, the iniquity of your
servant; for I have done very foolishly.
1Ch
21:9 Yahweh spoke to Gad, David's seer, saying,
1Ch
21:10 Go and speak to David, saying, Thus says Yahweh, I offer you
three things: choose one of them, that I may do it to you.
1Ch
21:11 So Gad came to David, and said to him, Thus says Yahweh, Take
your choice:
1Ch
21:12 either three years of famine; or three months to be consumed
before your foes, while the sword of your enemies overtakes you; or
else three days the sword of Yahweh, even pestilence in the land, and
the angel of Yahweh destroying throughout all the borders of Israel.
Now therefore consider what answer I shall return to him who sent me.
1Ch
21:13 David said to Gad, I am in distress. Let me fall, I pray, into
the hand of Yahweh; for very great are his mercies: and let me not
fall into the hand of man.
1Ch
21:14 So Yahweh sent a pestilence on Israel; and there fell of
Israel seventy thousand men.
1Ch
21:15 God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he was
about to destroy, Yahweh saw, and he relented of the disaster, and
said to the destroying angel, It is enough; now stay your hand. The
angel of Yahweh was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the
Jebusite.
1Ch
21:16 David lifted up his eyes, and saw the angel of Yahweh standing
between earth and the sky, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched
out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth,
fell on their faces.
1Ch
21:17 David said to God, Isn't it I who commanded the people to be
numbered? It is even I who have sinned and done very wickedly; but
these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand, O Yahweh my
God, be against me, and against my father's house; but not against
your people, that they should be plagued.
1Ch
21:18 Then the angel of Yahweh commanded Gad to tell David, that
David should go up, and raise an altar to Yahweh in the threshing
floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
1Ch
21:19 David went up at the saying of Gad, which he spoke in the name
of Yahweh.
1Ch
21:20 Ornan turned back, and saw the angel; and his four sons who
were with him hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat.
1Ch
21:21 As David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David, and went
out of the threshing floor, and bowed himself to David with his face
to the ground.
1Ch
21:22 Then David said to Ornan, Give me the place of this threshing
floor, that I may build thereon an altar to Yahweh: for the full
price you shall give it to me, that the plague may be stopped from
afflicting the people.
1Ch
21:23 Ornan said to David, Take it for yourself, and let my lord the
king do that which is good in his eyes: behold, I give you
the oxen for burnt offerings, and the threshing instruments for wood,
and the wheat for the meal offering; I give it all.
1Ch
21:24 King David said to Ornan, No; but I will most certainly buy it
for the full price: for I will not take that which is yours for
Yahweh, nor offer a burnt offering without cost.
1Ch
21:25 So David gave to Ornan for the place six hundred shekels of
gold by weight.
1Ch
21:26 David built there an altar to Yahweh, and offered burnt
offerings and peace offerings, and called on Yahweh; and he answered
him from the sky by fire on the altar of burnt offering.
1Ch
21:27 Yahweh commanded the angel; and he put up his sword again into
its sheath.
1Ch
21:28 At that time, when David saw that Yahweh had answered him in
the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, then he sacrificed there.
1Ch
21:29 For the tabernacle of Yahweh, which Moses made in the
wilderness, and the altar of burnt offering, were at that time in the
high place at Gibeon.
1Ch
21:30 But David couldn't go before it to inquire of God; for he was
afraid because of the sword of the angel of Yahweh.