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1 Chronicles · read by Alan Redpath
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1 Chronicles 21
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Then Satan rose up against Israel and incited David to take a census of Israel.Read from KJV · Life of David
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"Go and tell David that this is what the LORD says: 'I am offering you three options. Choose one of them, and I will carry it out against you.'"Read from KJV · Life of David
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So Gad went and said to David, "This is what the LORD says: 'You must chooseRead from KJV · Life of David
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between three years of famine, three months of being swept away before your enemies and overtaken by their swords, or three days of the sword of the LORD—days of plague upon the land, with the angel of the LORD ravaging every part of Israel.' Now then, decide how I should reply to Him who sent me."Read from KJV · Life of David
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David answered Gad, "I am deeply distressed. Please, let me fall into the hand of the LORD, for His mercies are very great; but do not let me fall into the hands of men."Read from KJV · Life of David
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When David lifted up his eyes and saw the angel of the LORD standing between heaven and earth, with a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem, David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell facedown.Read from KJV · Life of David
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And David said to God, "Was it not I who gave the order to count the people? I am the one who has sinned and acted wickedly. But these sheep, what have they done? O LORD my God, please let Your hand fall upon me and my father's house, but do not let this plague remain upon Your people."Read from KJV · Life of David
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Then the angel of the LORD ordered Gad to tell David to go up and build an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.Read from KJV · Life of David
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So David went up at the word that Gad had spoken in the name of the LORD.Read from KJV · Life of David
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Now Ornan was threshing wheat when he turned and saw the angel; and his four sons who were with him hid themselves.Read from KJV · Life of David
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David came to Ornan, and when Ornan looked out and saw David, he left the threshing floor and bowed facedown before David.Read from KJV · Life of David
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Then David said to Ornan, "Grant me the site of this threshing floor, that I may build an altar to the LORD. Sell it to me for the full price, so that the plague upon the people may be halted."Read from KJV · Life of David
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Ornan said to David, "My lord the king may take whatever seems good. Look, I will give the oxen for the burnt offerings, the threshing sledges for the wood, and the wheat for the grain offering—I will give it all."Read from KJV · Life of David
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"No," replied King David, "I insist on paying the full price, for I will not take for the LORD what belongs to you, nor will I offer burnt offerings that cost me nothing."Read from KJV · Life of David
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And there he built an altar to the LORD and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. He called upon the LORD, who answered him with fire from heaven on the altar of burnt offering.Read from KJV · Life of David
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Then the LORD spoke to the angel, who put his sword back into its sheath.Read from KJV · Life of David