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1 Chronicles 21:1 (show verse)
Now Satan, designing evil against Israel, put into David's mind the impulse to take the number of Israel.
Adversary » Power of » Tempting to disobedience
Census » The numbering of israel » By david
Conscience » Instances of » Of joab, for numbering israel
Rulers' » Wicked » Instances of » David, numbering israel and judah
Satan » Tempts men vanquished by men » Tempts men
Satan » The prince » Satan
Satan » Vanquished promises of ultimate triumph » Tempting to disobedience
Satan's » Work » Tempting to disobedience
Serpent » Power of » Tempting to disobedience
Temptation » Satan the chief agent in
Temptation » The devil is the author of
Tempter » Power of » Tempting to disobedience
The Devil » Saints » Tempted by
The Nation » Imprisonment mutilations » Census taken, of the israelites
Titles and names of the devil » Satan
satan's Work » Tempting to disobedience
Census » The numbering of israel » By david
Conscience » Instances of » Of joab, for numbering israel
Rulers' » Wicked » Instances of » David, numbering israel and judah
Satan » Tempts men vanquished by men » Tempts men
Satan » The prince » Satan
Satan » Vanquished promises of ultimate triumph » Tempting to disobedience
Satan's » Work » Tempting to disobedience
Serpent » Power of » Tempting to disobedience
Temptation » Satan the chief agent in
Temptation » The devil is the author of
Tempter » Power of » Tempting to disobedience
The Devil » Saints » Tempted by
The Nation » Imprisonment mutilations » Census taken, of the israelites
Titles and names of the devil » Satan
satan's Work » Tempting to disobedience
1 Chronicles 21:2 (show verse)
And David said to Joab and the captains of the people, Now let all Israel, from Beer-sheba to Dan, be numbered; and give me word so that I may be certain of their number.
1 Chronicles 21:3 (show verse)
And Joab said, May the Lord make his people a hundred times more in number than they are; but, my lord king, are they not all my lord's servants? why would my lord have this done? why will he become a cause of sin to Israel?
Census » The numbering of israel » By david
Conscience » Instances of » Of joab, for numbering israel
Jehoshaphat » King of judah » Bequests of, to his children
Joab » Son of david's sister » Opposes the numbering of the people
Reproof » Faithfulness in » Joab, of david
Reproof » Exemplified » Joab
Rulers' » Wicked » Instances of » David, numbering israel and judah
Conscience » Instances of » Of joab, for numbering israel
Jehoshaphat » King of judah » Bequests of, to his children
Joab » Son of david's sister » Opposes the numbering of the people
Reproof » Faithfulness in » Joab, of david
Reproof » Exemplified » Joab
Rulers' » Wicked » Instances of » David, numbering israel and judah
1 Chronicles 21:4 (show verse)
But the king's word was stronger than Joab's. So Joab went out and went through all Israel and came to Jerusalem.
1 Chronicles 21:5 (show verse)
And Joab gave David the number of all the people; all the men of Israel, able to take up arms, were one million, one hundred thousand men; and those of Judah were four hundred and seventy thousand men, able to take up arms.
1 Chronicles 21:6 (show verse)
But Levi and Benjamin were not numbered among them, for Joab was disgusted with the king's order.
Benjamin » Tribe of » Not enrolled by joab when he took a census of the military forces of israel
Census » The numbering of israel » By david
Conscience » Instances of » Of joab, for numbering israel
Integrity » Instances of » Joab, when ordered by david to count the military forces of israel
Israel » David » Census
Rulers' » Wicked » Instances of » David, numbering israel and judah
Census » The numbering of israel » By david
Conscience » Instances of » Of joab, for numbering israel
Integrity » Instances of » Joab, when ordered by david to count the military forces of israel
Israel » David » Census
Rulers' » Wicked » Instances of » David, numbering israel and judah
1 Chronicles 21:7 (show verse)
And God was not pleased with this thing; so he sent punishment on Israel.
1 Chronicles 21:8 (show verse)
Then David said to God, Great has been my sin in doing this; but now, be pleased to take away the sin of your servant, for I have done very foolishly.
1 Chronicles 21:9 (show verse)
Then the word of the Lord came to Gad, David's seer, saying,
1 Chronicles 21:10 (show verse)
Go and say to David, The Lord says, Three things are offered to you: say which of them you will have, so that I may do it to you.
1 Chronicles 21:11 (show verse)
So Gad came to David and said to him, The Lord says, Take whichever you will:
1 Chronicles 21:12 (show verse)
Three years when there will not be enough food; or three months of war, when you will go in flight before your haters, being in great danger of the sword; or three days of the sword of the Lord, disease in the land, and the angel of the Lord taking destruction through all the land of Israel. Now give thought to the answer I am to take back to him who sent me.
1 Chronicles 21:13 (show verse)
And David said to Gad, This is a hard decision for me to make: let me come into the hands of the Lord, for great are his mercies: let me not come into the hands of men.
1 Chronicles 21:14 (show verse)
So the Lord sent disease on Israel, causing the death of seventy thousand men.
1 Chronicles 21:15 (show verse)
And God sent an angel to Jerusalem for its destruction: and when he was about to do so, the Lord saw, and had regret for the evil, and said to the angel of destruction, It is enough; do no more. Now the angel of the Lord was by the grain-floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
Angel (a spirit) » Appearances of » To david, at the threshing floor of araunah
Angels » Of wrath, execute the judgments of God
Araunah » Also called ornan
Miracles » Catalogue of » The plague in israel
Nation » Involved in sins of rulers
Ornan » Jebusite
Vision » Of david » Of the angel of the lord beside the threshing-floor of ornan
Angels » Of wrath, execute the judgments of God
Araunah » Also called ornan
Miracles » Catalogue of » The plague in israel
Nation » Involved in sins of rulers
Ornan » Jebusite
Vision » Of david » Of the angel of the lord beside the threshing-floor of ornan
1 Chronicles 21:16 (show verse)
And David, lifting up his eyes, saw the angel of the Lord there between earth and heaven, with an uncovered sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the responsible men, clothed in haircloth, went down on their faces.
Angel (a spirit) » Appearances of » To david, at the threshing floor of araunah
Araunah » Also called ornan
Government » Mosaic » Closely associated with david
Miracles » Catalogue of » The plague in israel
Nation » Involved in sins of rulers
Ornan » Jebusite
Prayer » Postures in » Falling on the face
Vision » Of david » Of the angel of the lord beside the threshing-floor of ornan
Araunah » Also called ornan
Government » Mosaic » Closely associated with david
Miracles » Catalogue of » The plague in israel
Nation » Involved in sins of rulers
Ornan » Jebusite
Prayer » Postures in » Falling on the face
Vision » Of david » Of the angel of the lord beside the threshing-floor of ornan
1 Chronicles 21:17 (show verse)
And David said to God, Was it not I who gave the order for the people to be numbered? It is I who have done the sin and the great wrong; but these are only sheep; what have they done? let your hand, O Lord God, be lifted up against me and against my family, but not against your people to send disease on them.
Araunah » Also called ornan
intercession » Intercessory prayer, examples of » David for israel
Intercessory prayer » David for israel
Miracles » Catalogue of » The plague in israel
Nation » Involved in sins of rulers
Ornan » Jebusite
Prayer » Intercessory prayer, examples of » David for israel
Remorse » David
Sheep » Figurative
Unselfishness » Instances of » David
Vision » Of david » Of the angel of the lord beside the threshing-floor of ornan
The wicked » Remorse of, examples of » David
intercession » Intercessory prayer, examples of » David for israel
Intercessory prayer » David for israel
Miracles » Catalogue of » The plague in israel
Nation » Involved in sins of rulers
Ornan » Jebusite
Prayer » Intercessory prayer, examples of » David for israel
Remorse » David
Sheep » Figurative
Unselfishness » Instances of » David
Vision » Of david » Of the angel of the lord beside the threshing-floor of ornan
The wicked » Remorse of, examples of » David
1 Chronicles 21:18 (show verse)
Then the angel of the Lord gave orders to Gad to say to David that he was to go and put up an altar to the Lord on the grain-floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
Araunah » Also called ornan
Gad » A prophet to david » Bids david build an altar on the threshing floor of ornan
Miracles » Catalogue of » The plague in israel
Mountains » Names of » Moriah, in jerusalem, where the temple was built and where it is supposed abraham offered up isaac
Ornan » Jebusite
Threshing » The place for » Generally on high ground
Vision » Of david » Of the angel of the lord beside the threshing-floor of ornan
Gad » A prophet to david » Bids david build an altar on the threshing floor of ornan
Miracles » Catalogue of » The plague in israel
Mountains » Names of » Moriah, in jerusalem, where the temple was built and where it is supposed abraham offered up isaac
Ornan » Jebusite
Threshing » The place for » Generally on high ground
Vision » Of david » Of the angel of the lord beside the threshing-floor of ornan
1 Chronicles 21:19 (show verse)
And David went up, as Gad had said in the name of the Lord.
1 Chronicles 21:20 (show verse)
And Ornan, turning back, saw the angel, and his four sons who were with him went to a secret place. Now Ornan was crushing his grain.
1 Chronicles 21:21 (show verse)
And when David came, Ornan, looking, saw him, and came out from the grain-floor and went down on his face to the earth before him.
1 Chronicles 21:22 (show verse)
Then David said to Ornan, Give me the place where this grain-floor is, so that I may put up an altar here to the Lord: let me have it for its full price; so that this disease may be stopped among the people.
1 Chronicles 21:23 (show verse)
And Ornan said to David, Take it, and let my lord the king do what seems right to him. See, I give you the oxen for burned offerings and the grain-cleaning instruments for fire-wood, and the grain for the meal offering; I give it all.
1 Chronicles 21:24 (show verse)
And King David said to Ornan, No; I will certainly give you the full price for it, because I will not take for the Lord what is yours, or give a burned offering without payment.
1 Chronicles 21:25 (show verse)
So David gave Ornan six hundred shekels of gold by weight for the place.
1 Chronicles 21:26 (show verse)
And David put up an altar there to the Lord, offering burned offerings and peace-offerings with prayers to the Lord; and he gave him an answer from heaven, sending fire on the altar of burned offering.
1 Chronicles 21:27 (show verse)
Then the Lord gave orders to the angel, and he put back his sword into its cover.
1 Chronicles 21:28 (show verse)
At that time, when David saw that the Lord had given him an answer on the grain-floor of Ornan the Jebusite, he made an offering there.
1 Chronicles 21:29 (show verse)
For the House of the Lord, which Moses had made in the waste land, and the altar of burned offerings, were at that time in the high place at Gibeon.
1 Chronicles 21:30 (show verse)
But David was not able to go before it to get directions from the Lord, so great was his fear of the sword of the angel of the Lord.