English Bible Presentation Sharing - 1-Chronicles Book, chapter 21, verse 65 in Mkjv Version

1 Chronicles 21 : 1 (MKJV)

And Satan stood up against Israel and provoked David to take a census of Israel.

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And David said to Joab and to the rulers of the people, Go number Israel from Beer-sheba to Dan. And bring the number of them to me so that I may know.

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And Joab answered, May Jehovah add to His people a hundred times, but my lord the king, are they not all my lord's servants? Why then does my lord require this thing? Why will he be a cause of trespass to Israel?

1 Chronicles 21 : 4 (MKJV)

But the king's word prevailed against Joab. And Joab departed and went up and down all Israel, and came again to Jerusalem.

1 Chronicles 21 : 5 (MKJV)

And Joab gave the sum of the census of the people to David. And in all Israel there were one million and a hundred thousand men who drew sword. And in Judah were four hundred and seventy thousand men who drew sword.

1 Chronicles 21 : 6 (MKJV)

But Levi and Benjamin he did not count among them; for the king's word was evil to Joab.

1 Chronicles 21 : 7 (MKJV)

And it was evil in the eyes of God as to this thing. And He struck Israel.

1 Chronicles 21 : 8 (MKJV)

And David said to God, I have sinned greatly because I have done this thing. But now, I beseech You, remove the iniquity of Your servant for I have done very foolishly.

1 Chronicles 21 : 9 (MKJV)

And Jehovah spoke to Gad, David's seer, saying,

1 Chronicles 21 : 10 (MKJV)

Go and speak to David, saying, So says Jehovah: I offer you three things. Choose one of them so that I may do it to you.

1 Chronicles 21 : 11 (MKJV)

And Gad came to David and said to him, So says Jehovah, Choose for yourself:

1 Chronicles 21 : 12 (MKJV)

either three years of famine, or three months to be swept away before your foes, while the sword of your enemies overtake you, or else three days of the sword of Jehovah, even the plague in the land, and the angel of Jehovah destroying throughout all the border of Israel. And now say what word I shall bring again to Him who sent me.

1 Chronicles 21 : 13 (MKJV)

And David said to Gad, I am in great distress. Let me fall now into the hand of Jehovah, for His mercies are very great. But do not let me fall into the hand of man.

1 Chronicles 21 : 14 (MKJV)

And Jehovah sent a plague on Israel. And there fell seventy thousand men of Israel.

1 Chronicles 21 : 15 (MKJV)

And God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it. And as he was destroying, Jehovah looked. And He repented of the evil and said to the angel who destroyed, Enough! Stay your hand now! And the angel of Jehovah stood by the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

1 Chronicles 21 : 16 (MKJV)

And David lifted up his eyes and saw the angel of Jehovah standing between the earth and the heavens, and his sword drawn in his hand, stretched out over Jerusalem. And David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell on their faces.

1 Chronicles 21 : 17 (MKJV)

And David said to God, Did not I command to number the people? I am the one who has sinned and done evil indeed. But these sheep, what have they done? I pray You, let Your hand be on me, O Jehovah my God, and on my father's house, but not on Your people, that they should be plagued.

1 Chronicles 21 : 18 (MKJV)

And the angel of Jehovah commanded Gad to say to David that David should go up and set up an altar to Jehovah in the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

1 Chronicles 21 : 19 (MKJV)

And David went up at the word of Gad which he spoke in the name of Jehovah.

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And Ornan turned back and saw the angel. And his four sons with him hid themselves. And Ornan was threshing wheat.

1 Chronicles 21 : 21 (MKJV)

And David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David. And he went out of the threshing-floor and bowed to David with his face to the ground.

1 Chronicles 21 : 22 (MKJV)

Then David said to Ornan, Give me the place of this threshing-floor, so that I may build an altar in it to Jehovah. You shall give it to me for the full price, so that the plague may be stayed from the people.

1 Chronicles 21 : 23 (MKJV)

And Ornan said to David, Take for yourself, and let my lord the king do what is good in his eyes. Lo, I give the oxen for burnt offerings, and the threshing instruments for wood, and the wheat for the food offering. I give it all.

1 Chronicles 21 : 24 (MKJV)

And King David said to Ornan, No, but I will truly buy it for the full silver. For I will not take what is yours for Jehovah, nor offer burnt offerings without cost.

1 Chronicles 21 : 25 (MKJV)

And David gave to Ornan for the place six hundred shekels of gold by weight.

1 Chronicles 21 : 26 (MKJV)

And David built an altar there to Jehovah, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and called on Jehovah. And He answered him from Heaven by fire on the altar of burnt offering.

1 Chronicles 21 : 27 (MKJV)

And Jehovah commanded the angel, and he put up his sword again into its sheath.

1 Chronicles 21 : 28 (MKJV)

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

1 Chronicles 21 : 29 (MKJV)

For the tabernacle of Jehovah, which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of the burnt offering, were at that time in the high place at Gibeon.

1 Chronicles 21 : 30 (MKJV)

But David could not go before it to ask of God, for he was afraid because of the sword of the angel of Jehovah.