1 Chronicles 21:7-17

Bible Text

[7] God was displeased with this thing; therefore he struck Israel. [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. [9] Yahweh spoke to Gad, David's seer, saying, [10] Go and speak to David, saying, Thus says Yahweh, I offer you three things: choose you one of them, that I may do it to you. [11] So Gad came to David, and said to him, Thus says Yahweh, Take which you will: [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. [13] David said to Gad, I am in a great strait: 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. [14] So Yahweh sent a pestilence on Israel; and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men. [15] God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he was about to destroy, Yahweh saw, and he repented him of the evil, 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. [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. [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.

Places in this passage

1 Chronicles 21:7-17 mentions Beersheba, Dan, Gibeon and Jerusalem.

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