1 Chronicles 21

1Satan stood up against Israel, and moved David to take a census of Israel.Cross-references: 2Sam 24:1 · 1Ki 22:20 · Job 1:6 · Job 2:1 · Job 2:4 · Zech 3:1 · +8 more

2David said to Joab and to the princes of the people, “Go, count Israel from Beersheba even to Dan; and bring me word, that I may know how many there are.”Cross-references: Deut 8:13 · Judg 20:1 · 1Sam 3:20 · 2Sam 3:10 · 2Sam 17:11 · 2Sam 24:2 · +7 more

3Joab said, “May 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?”Cross-references: Gen 20:9 · Ex 32:21 · Num 32:9 · Deut 1:11 · 1Sam 2:24 · 1Ki 14:16 · +5 more

4Nevertheless the king’s word prevailed against Joab. Therefore Joab departed and went throughout all Israel, then came to Jerusalem.Cross-references: Ex 1:17 · 2Sam 24:3 · Eccl 8:4 · Dan 3:18 · Acts 5:29

5Joab gave the sum of the census of the people to David. All those of Israel were one million one hundred thousand men who drew a sword; and in Judah were four hundred seventy thousand men who drew a sword.Cross-references: 2Sam 24:9 · 1Chr 27:23

6But he didn’t count Levi and Benjamin among them, for the king’s word was abominable to Joab.Cross-references: Num 1:47 · 2Sam 3:27 · 2Sam 11:15 · 2Sam 20:9 · 1Chr 27:24

7God was displeased with this thing; therefore he struck Israel.Cross-references: Josh 7:1 · Josh 7:5 · Josh 7:13 · Josh 22:16 · 2Sam 11:27 · 2Sam 21:1 · +4 more

8David 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.”Cross-references: Gen 34:7 · 1Sam 13:13 · 1Sam 26:21 · 2Sam 12:13 · 2Sam 13:13 · 2Sam 24:10 · +9 more

9Yahweh spoke to Gad, David’s seer, saying,Cross-references: 1Sam 9:9 · 2Sam 24:11 · 1Chr 29:29

10“Go and speak to David, saying, ‘Yahweh says, “I offer you three things. Choose one of them, that I may do it to you.”’”Cross-references: Num 20:12 · Josh 24:15 · 2Sam 12:10 · 1Ki 13:21 · Prov 1:29 · Prov 3:12 · +1 more

11So Gad came to David and said to him, “Yahweh says, ‘Take your choice:Cross-references: Prov 19:20

12either 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 of the sword of Yahweh, even pestilence in the land, and Yahweh’s angel destroying throughout all the borders of Israel. Now therefore consider what answer I shall return to him who sent me.’”Cross-references: Ex 12:23 · Lev 26:10 · Lev 26:17 · Lev 26:25 · Lev 26:36 · Deut 28:15 · +22 more

13David said to Gad, “I am in distress. Let me fall, I pray, into Yahweh’s hand, for his mercies are very great. Don’t let me fall into man’s hand.”Cross-references: Ex 34:6 · 2Ki 6:15 · 2Ki 7:4 · 2Chr 28:9 · Esth 4:11 · Esth 4:16 · +24 more

14So Yahweh sent a pestilence on Israel, and seventy thousand men of Israel fell.Cross-references: Ex 12:30 · Num 16:46 · Num 25:9 · 1Sam 6:19 · 2Sam 24:15 · 2Ki 19:35 · +1 more

15God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it. As he was about to destroy, Yahweh saw, and he relented of the disaster, and said to the destroying angel, “It is enough. Now withdraw your hand.” Yahweh’s angel was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.Cross-references: Gen 6:6 · Ex 9:28 · Ex 32:14 · Judg 2:18 · Judg 10:16 · 2Sam 24:16 · +12 more

16David lifted up his eyes, and saw Yahweh’s angel 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.Cross-references: Gen 3:24 · Ex 14:19 · Num 14:5 · Num 16:22 · Num 22:31 · Josh 5:13 · +5 more

17David said to God, “Isn’t it I who commanded the people to be counted? 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.”Cross-references: Gen 44:33 · Ex 20:5 · Ex 32:32 · Josh 22:18 · 2Sam 7:8 · 2Sam 12:10 · +13 more

18Then Yahweh’s angel commanded Gad to tell David that David should go up and raise an altar to Yahweh on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.Cross-references: 2Sam 24:18 · 1Chr 21:11 · 1Chr 21:15 · 2Chr 3:1 · Acts 8:26

19David went up at the saying of Gad, which he spoke in Yahweh’s name.Cross-references: 2Ki 5:10 · John 2:5 · Acts 9:6

20Ornan turned back and saw the angel; and his four sons who were with him hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat.Cross-references: Judg 6:11

21As 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.Cross-references: 1Sam 25:23 · 2Sam 24:18

22Then David said to Ornan, “Sell me the place of this threshing floor, that I may build an altar to Yahweh on it. You shall sell it to me for the full price, that the plague may be stopped from afflicting the people.”Cross-references: Num 16:48 · Num 25:8 · 2Sam 24:21 · 1Ki 21:2

23Ornan said to David, “Take it for yourself, and let my lord the king do that which is good in his eyes. Behold, I give the oxen for burnt offerings, and the threshing instruments for wood, and the wheat for the meal offering. I give it all.”Cross-references: Gen 23:4 · 1Sam 6:14 · 2Sam 24:22 · 1Ki 19:21 · Isa 28:27 · Jer 32:8

24King 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 that costs me nothing.”Cross-references: Gen 14:23 · Gen 23:13 · Deut 16:16 · Mal 1:12 · Rom 12:17

25So David gave to Ornan six hundred shekels of gold by weight for the place.Cross-references: 2Sam 24:24

26David built an altar to Yahweh there, 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.Cross-references: Ex 20:24 · Ex 24:4 · Lev 9:24 · Judg 6:21 · Judg 13:20 · 1Sam 7:8 · +10 more

27Then Yahweh commanded the angel, and he put his sword back into its sheath.Cross-references: 2Sam 24:16 · 1Chr 21:12 · 1Chr 21:15 · 1Chr 21:20 · Ps 103:20 · Jer 47:6 · +4 more

28At that time, when David saw that Yahweh had answered him in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, then he sacrificed there.

29For Yahweh’s tabernacle, which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of burnt offering, were at that time in the high place at Gibeon.Cross-references: Ex 40:1 · 1Ki 3:4 · 1Chr 16:39 · 2Chr 1:3 · 2Chr 1:13

30But David couldn’t go before it to inquire of God, for he was afraid because of the sword of Yahweh’s angel.Cross-references: Deut 10:12 · 2Sam 6:9 · 1Chr 13:12 · 1Chr 21:16 · Job 13:21 · Job 21:6 · +8 more