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21 *And aSatan stood up against Israel, and bprovoked David to number Israel. 2 And David said to Joab and to the rulers of the people, Go, number Israel from Beer-sheba even to Dan; and bring the number of them to me, that I may know it. 3 And Joab answered, The Lord make his people an hundred times so many more as they be: but, my lord the king, are they not all my lord’s servants? why then doth my lord require this thing? why will he be ca cause of trespass to Israel? 4 Nevertheless the king’s word prevailed against Joab. Wherefore Joab departed, and went throughout all Israel, and came to Jerusalem. 5 And Joab gave the sum of the number of the people unto David. And all they of Israel were da thousand thousand and an hundred thousand men that drew sword: and Judah was dfour hundred threescore and ten thousand men that drew sword. 6 eBut Levi and Benjamin counted he not among them: for the king’s word was abominable to Joab.
7 †And God was displeased with this thing; therefore he smote Israel. 8 And David said unto God, I have sinned greatly, because I have done this thing: but now, I beseech thee, do away the iniquity of thy servant; for I have done very foolishly. 9 And the Lord spake unto Gad, David’s seer, saying, 10 Go and tell David, saying, Thus saith the Lord, I †offer thee three things: choose thee one of them, that I may do it unto thee. 11 So Gad came to David, and said unto him, Thus saith the Lord, †Choose thee 12 Either fthree years’ famine; or three months to be destroyed before thy foes, while that the sword of thine enemies overtaketh thee; or else three days the sword of the Lord, even the pestilence, in the land, and the angel of the Lord destroying throughout all the coasts of Israel. Now therefore advise thyself what word I shall bring again to him that sent me. 13 And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let me fall now into the hand of the Lord; for very ||great are his mercies: but let me not fall into the hand of man. 14 So the Lord sent pestilence upon Israel: and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men.
15 And God sent an angel unto Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he was destroying, the Lord beheld, and he repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed, It is enough, stay now thine hand. And the angel of the Lord stood by the threshingfloor of ||Ornan the Jebusite. 16 And David lifted up his eyes, and saw the angel of the Lord stand between the earth and the heaven, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders of Israel, who were gclothed in sackcloth, fell upon their faces. 17 And David said unto God, Is it not I that commanded the people to be numbered? even I it is that have sinned and done evil indeed; but as for these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, O Lord my God, be on me, and on my father’s house; but not on thy people, that they should be plagued. 18 Then hthe angel of the Lord commanded Gad to say to David, that David should go up, and set up an altar unto the Lord in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite. 19 And David went up at the saying of Gad, which he spake in the name of the Lord. 20 ||And Ornan turned back, and saw the angel; and his four sons with him hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat. 21 And as David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David, and went out of the threshingfloor, and bowed himself to David with his face to the ground. 22 Then David said to Ornan, †Grant me the place of this threshingfloor, that I may build an altar therein unto the Lord: thou shalt †grant it me for the full price: that the plague may be stayed from the people. 23 And Ornan said unto David, Take it to thee, and let my lord the king do that which is good in his eyes: lo, I give thee the oxen also for burnt offerings, and the threshing instruments for wood, and the iwheat for the meat offering; I give it all. 24 And king David said to Ornan, Nay; but I will verily buy it for the full price: for I will not take that which is thine for the Lord, nor offer burnt offerings without cost. 25 So David gave to Ornan for the place jsix hundred shekels of gold by weight. 26 And David built there an altar unto the Lord, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and called upon the Lord; and khe answered him from heaven by fire upon the altar of burnt offering. 27 And the Lord commanded the angel; and he put up his sword again into the sheath thereof.
28 At that time when David saw that the Lord had answered him in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite, then he sacrificed there. 29 lFor the tabernacle of the Lord, which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of the burnt offering, were at that season in the high place at Gibeon. 30 But David could not go before it mto inquire of God: for he was nafraid because of the sword of the angel of the Lord.
22 Then David said, aThis is the house of the Lord God, and this is the altar of the burnt offering for Israel. 2 And David commanded to gather together bthe strangers that were in the land of Israel; and he set masons to hew cwrought stones to build the house of God. 3 And David prepared iron in abundance for the nails for the doors of the gates, and for the ccjoinings; and brass in abundance dwithout weight; 4 Also cedar trees in abundance: for ethe Zidonians and they of Tyre brought much cedar wood to David. 5 And David said, Solomon my son is fyoung and tender, and the house that is to be builded for the Lord must be exceeding magnifical, of fame and of glory throughout all countries: I will therefore now make preparation for it. So David prepared abundantly before his death.
6 Then he called for Solomon his son, and charged him to build an house for the Lord God of Israel. 7 And David said to Solomon, My son, as for me, git was in my mind to build an house hunto the name of the Lord my God: 8 But the word of the Lord came to me, saying, iThou hast shed blood abundantly, and jhast made great wars: thou shalt not build an house unto my name, because thou hast shed much blood upon the earth in my sight. 9 Behold, a son shall be born to thee, who shall be a man of krest; and I will give him rest from all his enemies round about: for his name shall be ||Solomon, and I will give peace and quietness unto Israel in his days. 10 lHe shall build an house for my name; and mhe shall be my son, and I will be his father; and I will establish the throne of his kingdom over Israel for ever. 11 Now, my son, nthe Lord be with thee; and prosper thou, and build the house of the Lord thy God, as he hath said of thee. 12 Only the Lord ogive thee wisdom and understanding, and give thee charge concerning Israel, that thou mayest keep the law of the Lord thy God. 13 pThen shalt thou prosper, if thou takest heed to fulfil the statutes and judgments which the Lord charged Moses with concerning Israel: qbe strong, and of good courage; rdread not, nor be dismayed. 14 Now, behold, ||in my trouble I have prepared for the house of the Lord an shundred thousand talents of gold, and a thousand thousand talents of silver; and of brass and iron twithout weight; for it is in abundance: timber also and stone have I prepared; and thou mayest add thereto. 15 Moreover there are workmen with thee in abundance, hewers and ||workers of stone and timber, and all manner of cunning men for every manner of work. 16 Of the gold, the silver, and the brass, and the iron, there is uno number. Arise therefore, and be doing, and vthe Lord be with thee.
17 David also commanded all wthe princes of Israel to help Solomon his son, saying, 18 Is not the Lord your God with you? and hath he xnot ygiven you rest on every side? for he hath given the inhabitants of the land into mine hand; and the land is subdued before the Lord, and before his people. 19 Now zset your heart and your soul to seek the Lord your God; arise therefore, and build ye the sanctuary of the Lord God, to bring athe ark of the covenant of the Lord, and the holy vessels of God, into the house that is to be built to the name of the Lord.
23 *So when David was old and afull of days, he made bSolomon his son king over Israel.
2 And he gathered together all the princes of Israel, with the priests and the Levites. 3 Now the Levites were numbered from the age of cthirty years and upward: and their number dby their polls, man by man, was ethirty and eight thousand. 4 Of which, twenty and four thousand were ||to set forward the work of the house of the Lord; and six thousand were fofficers and judges: 5 Moreover four thousand were porters; and four thousand praised the Lord with the instruments gwhich I made, hsaid David, to praise therewith. 6 And iDavid divided them into †courses among kthe sons of Levi, namely, Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
7 lOf the Gershonites were, ||Laadan, and Shimei. 8 The sons of Laadan; the chief was mJehiel, and lZetham, and lJoel, three. 9 The sons of Shimei; Shelomith, and Haziel, and Haran, three. These were the chief of the fathers of Laadan. 10 And the sons of nShimei were, Jahath, ||Zina, and Jeush, and Beriah. These four were the sons of Shimei. 11 And Jahath was the chief, and Zizah the second: but Jeush and Beriah †had not many sons; therefore they were in one reckoning, according to their father’s house.
12 oThe sons of Kohath; Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel, four. 13 The sons of pAmram; Aaron and Moses: and qAaron was separated, that he should sanctify rthe most holy things, he and his sons for ever, sto burn incense before the Lord, tto minister unto him, and tuto bless in his name for ever. 14 Now concerning Moses xthe man of God, yhis sons were named of the tribe of Levi. 15 zThe sons of Moses were, Gershom, and Eliezer. 16 aOf the sons of Gershom, ||Shebuel was the chief. 17 And the sons of Eliezer were, bRehabiah ||the chief. And Eliezer had none other sons; but the sons of Rehabiah †were very many. 18 Of the sons of Izhar; ||Shelomith the chief. 19 cOf the sons of Hebron; Jeriah the first, Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third, and Jekameam the fourth. 20 Of the sons of Uzziel; dMichah the first, and dJesiah the second.
21 eThe sons of Merari; Mahli, and Mushi. The sons of Mahli; Eleazar, and fKish. 22 And Eleazar died, and ghad no sons, but daughters: and their ||brethren the sons of Kish htook them. 23 iThe sons of Mushi; Mahli, and Eder, and Jeremoth, three.
24 These were kthe sons of Levi after the house of their fathers; even the chief of the fathers, as lthey were counted by number of names by their polls, that did the work for the service of the house of the Lord, from the age of mtwenty years and upward. 25 For David said, The Lord God of Israel nhath given rest unto his people, ||that they may dwell in Jerusalem for ever: 26 And also unto the Levites; they shall no more ocarry the tabernacle, nor any vessels of it for the service thereof. 27 For by the last words of David the Levites were †numbered from twenty years old and above: 28 Because †their office was to wait on the sons of Aaron for the service of the house of the Lord, in the courts, and in the pchambers, and in the purifying of all holy things, and the work of the service of the house of God; 29 Both for qthe shewbread, and for rthe fine flour for meat offering, and for sthe unleavened cakes, and for that which is baked in the ||pan, and for that which is tfried, and for all manner of umeasure and usize; 30 And to stand every morning to thank and praise the Lord, and likewise at even; 31 And to offer all burnt sacrifices unto the Lord in the xsabbaths, in the ynew moons, and on the zset feasts, by number, according to the order commanded unto them, continually before the Lord: 32 And that they should akeep the charge of the tabernacle of the congregation, and the charge of the holy place, and bthe charge of the sons of Aaron their brethren, in the service of the house of the Lord.
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