2 Samuel 24

1And again the anger of the Yahuah was kindled against Israel, and he moved David against them to say, Go, number Israel and Judah. 2For the king said to Joab the captain of the host, which with him, Go now through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan even to Beersheba, and number ye the people, that I may know the number of the people. 3And Joab said unto the king, Now the Yahuah your Elohim add unto the people, how many soever they be, an hundredfold, and that the eyes of my lord the king may see : but why does my lord the king delight in this thing? 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. 5And they passed over Jordan, and pitched in Aroer, on the right side of the city that in the midst of the river of Gad, and toward Jazer: 6Then they came to Gilead, and to the land of Tahtimhodshi; and they came to Danjaan, and about to Zidon, 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, to Beersheba. 8So when they had gone through all the land, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days. 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 five hundred thousand men. 10And David's heart smote him after that he had numbered the people. And David said unto the Yahuah, I have sinned greatly in that I have done: and now, I beseech you, O Yahuah, take away the iniquity of your servant; for I have done very foolishly. 11For when David was up in the morning, the word of the Yahuah came unto the prophet Gad, David's seer, saying, 12Go and say unto David, Thus says the Yahuah, I offer you three ; choose you one of them, that I may unto you. 13So Gad came to David, and told him, and said unto him, Shall seven years of famine come unto you in your land? or will you flee three months before your enemies, while they pursue you? or that there be three days' pestilence in your land? now advise, and see what answer I shall return to him that sent me. 14And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let us fall now into the hand of the Yahuah; for his mercies great: and let me not fall into the hand of man. 15So the Yahuah sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning even to the time appointed: and there died of the people from Dan even to Beersheba seventy thousand men. 16And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the Yahuah repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough: stay now your hand. And the angel of the Yahuah was by the threshingplace of Araunah the Jebusite. 17And David spake unto the Yahuah 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 your hand, I pray you, be against me, and against my father's house. 18And Gad came that day to David, and said unto him, Go up, rear an altar unto the Yahuah in the threshingfloor of Araunah the Jebusite. 19And David, according to the saying of Gad, went up as the Yahuah commanded. 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. 21And Araunah said, therefore is my lord the king come to his servant? And David said, To buy the threshingfloor of you, to build an altar unto the Yahuah, that the plague may be stayed from the people. 22And Araunah said unto David, Let my lord the king take and offer up what good unto him: behold, oxen for burnt sacrifice, and threshing instruments and instruments of the oxen for wood. 23All these did Araunah, a king, give unto the king. And Araunah said unto the king, The Yahuah your Elohim accept you. 24And the king said unto Araunah, no; but I will surely buy of you at a price: neither will I offer burnt offerings unto the Yahuah my Elohim of that which does cost me nothing. So David bought the threshingfloor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver. 25And David built there an altar unto the Yahuah, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. So the Yahuah was intreated for the land, and the plague was stayed from Israel.