These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
1 Chronicles 21
Tanakh 30 verses
- 1 And stood up against , and moved to number .
- 2 And said to Joab and to the princes of the people: ‘Go, number from Beersheba even to ; and bring me , that I may the sum of them.’
- 3 And Joab said: ‘The make His people a hundred times so many more as they are; but, my lord the , are they not all my lord’s servants? why doth my lord require this thing? why will he be a cause of guilt unto ?’
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Nevertheless the king’s prevailed against Joab. Wherefore Joab departed and went throughout all , and came to .
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And Joab gave up the sum of the numbering of the people unto . And all they of were a thousand thousand and a hundred thousand men that drew sword; and was four hundred three-score and ten thousand men that drew sword.
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But and he did not number among them; for the king’s was abominable to Joab.
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- 7 And was displeased with this thing; therefore He smote .
- 8 And said unto : ‘I have sinned greatly, in that I have done this thing; but now, put away, I beseech Thee, the iniquity of Thy ; for I have done very foolishly.’
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And spoke unto , David’s , saying:
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Go and speak unto , saying: Thus saith : I offer thee three things; choose thee one of them, that I may do it unto thee.’
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So came to , and said unto him: ‘Thus saith : Take which thou wilt:
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either three years of famine; or three months to be swept away before thy foes, while the sword of thine enemies overtaketh thee; or else three days the sword of , even pestilence in the land, and the of destroying throughout all the borders of . Now therefore consider what answer I shall return to Him that sent me.’
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Revelation 7:1-3 Deuteronomy 28:35 Leviticus 26:36-37 Leviticus 26:17 2 Samuel 24:13-14 Exodus 12:23 Leviticus 26:25-29 2 Kings 19:35 Jeremiah 42:16 1 Chronicles 21:15-16 Ezekiel 14:19-21 Deuteronomy 28:25 Leviticus 26:10 Psalm 91:6 Luke 4:25 Deuteronomy 28:22 Jeremiah 12:12 Lamentations 4:9 Jeremiah 47:6 2 Samuel 21:1 Deuteronomy 28:51-52 Matthew 13:49-50 Deuteronomy 28:15 Isaiah 66:16 1 Kings 17:1 Acts 12:23 2 Kings 8:1 Deuteronomy 28:27 -
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And said unto : ‘I am in a great strait; let me fall now into the hand of , for very great are His mercies; and let me not fall into the hand of man.’
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Psalm 130:7 Psalm 86:15 Micah 7:18 Esther 4:16 Isaiah 63:15 Jonah 4:2 Psalm 103:8 Psalm 69:13 Psalm 5:7 2 Kings 6:15 Isaiah 55:7 Psalm 130:4 Lamentations 3:32 Isaiah 47:6 Esther 4:11 Psalm 51:1-2 John 12:27 Psalm 69:16 Jonah 3:9 Habakkuk 3:2 Philippians 1:23 Hebrews 10:31 Isaiah 63:7 2 Kings 7:4 Proverbs 12:10 2 Chronicles 28:9 Isaiah 46:7 Exodus 34:6-7 Psalm 106:7 Psalm 86:5 -
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So sent a pestilence upon ; and there fell of seventy thousand men.
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- 15 And sent an unto to destroy it; and as he was about to destroy, beheld, and He repented Him of the evil, and said to the destroying : ‘It is enough; now stay thy hand.’ And the of was standing by the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
- 16 And lifted up his eyes, and saw the of standing between the earth and the , having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over . Then and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell upon their faces.
- 17 And said unto : ‘Is it not I that commanded the people to be numbered? even I it is that have sinned and done very wickedly; but these sheep, what have they done? let Thy hand, I pray Thee, O my , be against me, and against my father’s house; but not against Thy people, that they should be plagued.’
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Then the of commanded to say to , that should go up, and rear an unto in the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
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And went up at the saying of , which he spoke in the of .
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And Ornan turned back, and saw the ; and his four sons that were with him hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat.
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And as came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw , and went out of the threshing-floor, and bowed down to with his to the ground.
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Then said to Ornan: ‘Give me the place of this threshing-floor, that I may build thereon an unto ; for the full price shalt thou give it me; that the plague may be stayed from the people.’
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And Ornan said unto : ‘Take it to thee, and let my lord the do that which is good in his eyes; lo, I give thee the oxen for burnt-offerings, and the threshing-instruments for wood, and the wheat for the meal-; I give it all’
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And said to Ornan: ‘Nay, but I will verily buy it for the full price; for I will not take that which is thine for , nor offer a burnt- without cost.’
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So gave to Ornan for the place six hundred shekels of gold by weight.
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- 26 And built there an unto , and offered burnt-offerings and -offerings, and called upon ; and He answered him from by fire upon the of burnt-.
- 27 And commanded the ; and he put up his sword back into the sheath thereof.
- 28 At that time, when saw that had answered him in the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite, then he sacrificed there.
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For the of , which made in the wilderness, and the of burnt-, were at that time in the high place at Gibeon.
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- 30 But could not go before it to inquire of ; for he was terrified because of the sword of the of .