1	And again# the anger of the LORD was kindled# against Israel, and he moved# David against them to say# , Go# , number# Israel and Judah.
			2	For the king said# to Joab the captain of the host, which was with him, Go now through# all the tribes of Israel, from Dan even to Beersheba, and number# ye the people, that I may know# the number of the people. [Go: or, Compass]
			3	And Joab said# unto the king, Now the LORD thy God add# unto the people, how many soever they be, an hundredfold# , and that the eyes of my lord the king may see# it : but why doth my lord the king delight# in this thing?
			4	Notwithstanding the king's word 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 king, to number# the people of Israel.
			5	And they passed over# Jordan, and pitched# in Aroer, on the right side of the city that lieth in the midst of the river of Gad, and toward Jazer: [river: or, valley]
			6	Then they came# to Gilead, and to the land of Tahtimhodshi; and they came# to Danjaan, and about to Zidon, [land of Tahtimhodshi: or, nether land newly inhabited]
			7	And came# to the strong hold of Tyre, and to all the cities of the Hivites, and of the Canaanites: and they went out# to the south of Judah, even to Beersheba.
			8	So when they had gone# through all the land, they came# to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.
			9	And Joab gave up# the sum of the number of the people unto the king: and there were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men# # that drew# the sword; and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand men.
			10	And David's heart smote# him after that he had numbered# the people. And David said# unto the LORD, I have sinned# greatly in that I have done# : and now, I beseech thee, O LORD, take away# the iniquity of thy servant; for I have done very foolishly# .
			11	For when David was up# in the morning, the word of the LORD came unto the prophet Gad, David's seer, saying# ,
			12	Go# and say# unto David, Thus saith# the LORD, I offer# thee three things ; choose# thee one of them, that I may do it unto thee# .
			13	So Gad came# to David, 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 thine enemies, while they pursue# thee? or that there be three days' pestilence in thy land? now advise# , and see# what answer I shall return# to him that sent# me.
			14	And David said# unto Gad, I am in a great strait# : let us fall# now into the hand of the LORD; for his mercies are great: and let me not fall# into the hand of man. [are great: or, are many]
			15	So the LORD sent# a pestilence upon Israel from the morning even to the time appointed: and there died# of the people from Dan even to Beersheba seventy thousand men.
			16	And when the angel stretched out# his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy# it, the LORD repented# him of the evil, and said# to the angel that destroyed# the people, It is enough: stay# now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD was by the threshingplace of Araunah the Jebusite. [Araunah: also called, Ornan]
			17	And David spake# unto the LORD when he saw# the angel that smote# the people, and said# , Lo, I have sinned# , and I have done wickedly# : but these sheep, what have they done# ? let thine hand, I pray thee, be against me, and against my father's house.
			18	And Gad came# that day to David, and said# unto him, Go up# , rear# an altar unto the LORD in the threshingfloor of Araunah the Jebusite. [Araunah: Heb. Araniah]
			19	And David, according to the saying of Gad, went up# as the LORD commanded# .
			20	And Araunah looked# , and saw# the king and his servants coming on# toward him: and Araunah went out# , and bowed# himself before the king on his face upon the ground.
			21	And Araunah said# , Wherefore is my lord the king come# to his servant? And David said# , To buy# the threshingfloor of thee, to build# an altar unto the LORD, that the plague may be stayed# from the people.
			22	And Araunah said# unto David, Let my lord the king take# and offer up# what seemeth good unto him: behold# , here be oxen for burnt sacrifice, and threshing instruments and other instruments of the oxen for wood.
			23	All these things did Araunah, as a king, give# unto the king. And Araunah said# unto the king, The LORD thy God accept# thee.
			24	And the king said# unto Araunah, Nay; but I will surely# buy# it of thee at a price: neither will I offer# burnt offerings unto the LORD my God of that which doth cost me nothing. So David bought# the threshingfloor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.
			25	And David built# there an altar unto the LORD, and offered# burnt offerings and peace offerings. So the LORD was intreated# for the land, and the plague was stayed# from Israel.