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
2 Samuel 24
Tanakh 25 verses
- 1 And again the anger of was kindled against , and He moved against them, saying: ‘Go, number and .’
- 2 And the said to Joab the captain of the host that was with him: ‘Go now to and fro through all the tribes of , from even to Beer-sheba, and number ye the people, that I may the sum of the people.’
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And Joab said unto the : ‘Now thy add unto the people, how many soever they may be, a hundredfold, and may the eyes of my lord the see it; but why doth my lord the delight in this thing?’
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Notwithstanding the king’s 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 , to number the people of .
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- 5 And they passed over the , and pitched in Aroer, on the right side of the city that is in the middle of the valley of , and unto Jazer;
- 6 then they came to , and to the land of Tahtim-hodshi; and they came to -jaan, and round about to Zidon,
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and came to the stronghold of , and to all the cities of the Hivites, and of the Canaanites; and they went out to the south of , at Beer-sheba.
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- 8 So when they had gone to and fro through all the land, they came to at the end of nine months and twenty days.
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And Joab gave up the sum of the numbering of the people unto the ; and there were in eight hundred thousand valiant men that drew the sword; and the men of were five hundred thousand men.
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- 10 And David’s smote him after that he had numbered the people. And said unto : ‘I have sinned greatly in what I have done; but now, O , put away, I beseech Thee, the iniquity of Thy ; for I have done very foolishly.’
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And when rose up in the morning, the of came unto the , David’s , saying:
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- 12 Go and speak unto : Thus saith : I lay upon thee three things; choose thee one of them, that I may do it unto thee.’
- 13 So came to , and told him, and said unto him: ‘Shall seven years of famine come unto thee in thy land? or wilt thou flee three months before thy foes while they pursue thee? or shall there be three days’ pestilence in thy land? now advise thee, and consider what answer I shall return to Him that sent Me.’
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And said unto : ‘I am in a great strait; let us fall now into the hand of ; for His mercies are great; and let me not fall into the hand of man.’
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Psalm 51:1 Psalm 119:156 Philippians 1:23 2 Kings 6:15 Isaiah 55:7 1 Samuel 13:6 2 Kings 13:3-7 Psalm 86:15 Psalm 106:41-42 Micah 7:18 Jonah 4:2 John 12:27 2 Chronicles 28:5-9 Psalm 145:9 Exodus 34:6-7 Zechariah 1:15 Psalm 86:5 Isaiah 47:6 Proverbs 12:10 Psalm 103:8-14 Psalm 130:4 1 Chronicles 21:13 - 15 So sent a pestilence upon from the morning even to the time appointed; and there died of the people from even to Beer-sheba seventy thousand men.
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And when the stretched out his hand toward to destroy it, repented Him of the evil, and said to the that destroyed the people: ‘It is enough; now stay thy hand.’ And the of was by the threshing-floor of Araunah the Jebusite.
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Joel 2:13-14 Genesis 6:6 Exodus 12:23 Acts 12:23 1 Samuel 15:11 2 Kings 19:35 2 Chronicles 32:21 2 Chronicles 3:1 Exodus 32:14 Amos 7:3 Habakkuk 3:2 Psalm 78:38 1 Chronicles 21:15-16 Exodus 9:28 Psalm 35:6 Judges 19:11 Isaiah 27:8 Psalm 90:13 1 Kings 19:4 Amos 7:6 Exodus 12:13 2 Samuel 24:18 Joshua 15:63 Judges 1:21 Isaiah 57:16 Genesis 10:16 Zechariah 9:7 2 Samuel 5:8 Jeremiah 18:7-10 2 Corinthians 2:6 Isaiah 40:1-2 Mark 14:41 Psalm 135:14 - 17 And spoke unto when he saw the that smote the people, and said: ‘Lo, I have sinned, and I have done iniquitously; but these sheep, what have they done? let Thy hand, I pray Thee, be against me, and against my father’s house.’
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And came that day to , and said unto him: ‘Go up, rear an unto in the threshing-floor of Araunah the Jebusite.’
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And went up according to the saying of , as commanded.
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And Araunah looked forth, and saw the and his servants coming on toward him; and Araunah went out, and bowed down before the with his to the ground.
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- 21 And Araunah said: ‘Wherefore is my lord the come to his ?’ And said: ‘To buy the threshing-floor of thee, to build an unto , that the plague may be stayed from the people.’
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And Araunah said unto : ‘Let my lord the take and offer up what seemeth good unto him; behold the oxen for the burnt-, and the threshing-instruments and the furniture of the oxen for the wood.’
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All this did Araunah the give unto the . And Araunah said unto the : ‘The thy accept thee.’
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And the said unto Araunah: ‘Nay; but I will verily buy it of thee at a price; neither will I offer burnt-offerings unto my which cost me nothing.’ So bought the threshing-floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.
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- 25 And built there an unto , and offered burnt-offerings and -offerings. So was entreated for the land, and the plague was stayed from .