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1 Chronicles 21 (WEBP)

[1] Satan stood up against Israel, and moved David to take a census of Israel.
[2] David said to Joab and to the princes of the people, “Go, count Israel from Beersheba even to Dan; and bring me word, that I may know how many there are.”
[3] Joab said, “May Yahweh make his people a hundred times as many as they are. But, my lord the king, aren’t they all my lord’s servants? Why does my lord require this thing? Why will he be a cause of guilt to Israel?”
[4] Nevertheless the king’s word prevailed against Joab. Therefore Joab departed and went throughout all Israel, then came to Jerusalem.
[5] Joab gave the sum of the census of the people to David. All those of Israel were one million one hundred thousand men who drew a sword; and in Judah were four hundred seventy thousand men who drew a sword.
[6] But he didn’t count Levi and Benjamin among them, for the king’s word was abominable to Joab.
[7] God was displeased with this thing; therefore he struck Israel.
[8] David said to God, “I have sinned greatly, in that I have done this thing. But now put away, I beg you, the iniquity of your servant, for I have done very foolishly.”
[9] Yahweh spoke to Gad, David’s seer, saying,
[10] “Go and speak to David, saying, ‘Yahweh says, “I offer you three things. Choose one of them, that I may do it to you.” ’ ”
[11] So Gad came to David and said to him, “Yahweh says, ‘Take your choice:
[12] either three years of famine; or three months to be consumed before your foes, while the sword of your enemies overtakes you; or else three days of the sword of Yahweh, even pestilence in the land, and Yahweh’s angel destroying throughout all the borders of Israel. Now therefore consider what answer I shall return to him who sent me.’ ”
[13] David said to Gad, “I am in distress. Let me fall, I pray, into Yahweh’s hand, for his mercies are very great. Don’t let me fall into man’s hand.”
[14] So Yahweh sent a pestilence on Israel, and seventy thousand men of Israel fell.
[15] God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it. As he was about to destroy, Yahweh saw, and he relented of the disaster, and said to the destroying angel, “It is enough. Now withdraw your hand.” Yahweh’s angel was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
[16] David lifted up his eyes, and saw Yahweh’s angel standing between earth and the sky, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell on their faces.
[17] David said to God, “Isn’t it I who commanded the people to be counted? It is even I who have sinned and done very wickedly; but these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand, O Yahweh my God, be against me and against my father’s house; but not against your people, that they should be plagued.”
[18] Then Yahweh’s angel commanded Gad to tell David that David should go up and raise an altar to Yahweh on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
[19] David went up at the saying of Gad, which he spoke in Yahweh’s name.
[20] Ornan turned back and saw the angel; and his four sons who were with him hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat.
[21] As David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David, and went out of the threshing floor, and bowed himself to David with his face to the ground.
[22] Then David said to Ornan, “Sell me the place of this threshing floor, that I may build an altar to Yahweh on it. You shall sell it to me for the full price, that the plague may be stopped from afflicting the people.”
[23] Ornan said to David, “Take it for yourself, and let my lord the king do that which is good in his eyes. Behold, I give the oxen for burnt offerings, and the threshing instruments for wood, and the wheat for the meal offering. I give it all.”
[24] King David said to Ornan, “No, but I will most certainly buy it for the full price. For I will not take that which is yours for Yahweh, nor offer a burnt offering that costs me nothing.”
[25] So David gave to Ornan six hundred shekels of gold by weight for the place.
[26] David built an altar to Yahweh there, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and called on Yahweh; and he answered him from the sky by fire on the altar of burnt offering.
[27] Then Yahweh commanded the angel, and he put his sword back into its sheath.
[28] At that time, when David saw that Yahweh had answered him in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, then he sacrificed there.
[29] For Yahweh’s tabernacle, which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of burnt offering, were at that time in the high place at Gibeon.
[30] But David couldn’t go before it to inquire of God, for he was afraid because of the sword of Yahweh’s angel.

1 Chronicles 21:25 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.32 Troy ounces, so 600 shekels was about 6 kilograms or about 192 Troy ounces.

Scripture quotations are taken from The World English Bible™ of eBible.org, 2020 stable text edition. It is in the public domain.

King James w/Strong’s #s

1 Chronicles 21 (KJVS)

[1] And Satan stood up () against Israel , and provoked () David to number () Israel .
[2] And David said () to Joab and to the rulers of the people , Go (), number () Israel from Beersheba 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 a 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 a thousand thousand and an hundred thousand men that drew () sword : and Judah [was] four hundred threescore and ten thousand men that drew () sword .
[6] But 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 three 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] clothed () 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 the 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 wheat 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 six 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 he 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] For 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 to enquire () of God : for he was afraid () because of the sword of the angel of the LORD .

Young’s Literal Translation

1 Chronicles 21 (YLT)

[1] And there standeth up an adversary against Israel, and persuadeth David to number Israel,
[2] And David saith unto Joab, and unto the heads of the people, ‘Go, number Israel from Beer-Sheba even unto Dan, and bring unto me, and I know their number.’
[3] And Joab saith, ‘Jehovah doth add to His people as they are a hundred times; are they not, my lord, O king, all of them to my lord for servants? why doth my lord seek this? why is he for a cause of guilt to Israel?’
[4] And the word of the king is severe against Joab, and Joab goeth out, and goeth up and down in all Israel, and cometh in to Jerusalem.
[5] And Joab giveth the account of the numbering of the people unto David, and all Israel is a thousand thousand and a hundred thousand, each drawing sword, and Judah is four hundred and seventy thousand, each drawing sword.
[6] And Levi and Benjamin he hath not numbered in their midst, for the word of the king was abominable with Joab.
[7] And it is evil in the eyes of God concerning this thing, and He smiteth Israel,
[8] and David saith unto God, ‘I have sinned exceedingly, in that I have done this thing; and now, cause to pass away, I pray Thee, the iniquity of Thy servant, for I have acted very foolishly.’
[9] And Jehovah speaketh unto Gad, seer of David, saying:
[10] ‘Go, and thou hast spoken unto David, saying, Thus said Jehovah, Three-I am stretching out unto thee; choose for thee one of these, and I do it to thee.’
[11] And Gad cometh in unto David, and saith to him, ‘Thus said Jehovah, Take for thee-
[12] either for three years-famine, or three months to be consumed from the face of thine adversaries, even the sword of thine enemies to overtake, or three days the sword of Jehovah, even pestilence in the land, and a messenger of Jehovah destroying in all the border of Israel; and now, see; what word do I return to Him who is sending me?’
[13] And David saith unto Gad, ‘I am greatly distressed, let me fall, I pray thee, into the hand of Jehovah, for very many are His mercies, and into the hand of man let me not fall.’
[14] And Jehovah giveth a pestilence in Israel, and there fall of Israel seventy thousand men,
[15] and God sendeth a messenger to Jerusalem to destroy it, and as he is destroying Jehovah hath seen, and is comforted concerning the evil, and saith to the messenger who is destroying, ‘Enough, now, cease thy hand.’ And the messenger of Jehovah is standing by the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite,
[16] and David lifteth up his eyes, and seeth the messenger of Jehovah standing between the earth and the heavens, and his sword drawn in his hand, stretched out over Jerusalem, and David falleth, and the elders, covered with sackcloth, on their faces.
[17] And David saith unto God, ‘Did not I-I say to number the people? Yea, I it is who have sinned, and done great evil: and these, the flock, what did they? O Jehovah, my God, let, I pray Thee, Thy hand be on me, and on the house of my father, and not on Thy people-to be plagued.’
[18] And the messenger of Jehovah spake unto Gad, saying for David, ‘Surely David doth go up to raise an altar to Jehovah in the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite.’
[19] And David goeth up by the word of Gad, that he spake in the name of Jehovah.
[20] And Ornan turneth back, and seeth the messenger, and his four sons are with him, hiding themselves, and Ornan is threshing wheat.
[21] And David cometh in unto Ornan, and Ornan looketh attentively, and seeth David, and goeth out from the threshing-floor, and boweth himself to David-face to the earth.
[22] And David saith unto Ornan, ‘Give to me the place of the threshing-floor, and I build in it an altar to Jehovah; for full silver give it to me, and the plague is restrained from the people.’
[23] And Ornan saith unto David, ‘Take to thee-and my lord the king doth that which is good in his eyes: see, I have given the oxen for burnt-offerings, and the threshing instruments for wood, and the wheat for a present; the whole I have given.’
[24] And king David saith to Ornan, ‘Nay, for I surely buy for full silver; for I do not lift up that which is thine to Jehovah, so as to offer a burnt-offering without cost.’
[25] And David giveth to Ornan for the place shekels of gold in weight six hundred;
[26] and David buildeth there an altar to Jehovah, and offereth burnt-offerings and peace-offerings, and calleth unto Jehovah, and He answereth him with fire from the heavens on the altar of the burnt-offering.
[27] And Jehovah saith to the messenger, and he turneth back his sword unto its sheath.
[28] At that time when David seeth that Jehovah hath answered him in the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite, then he sacrificeth there;
[29] and the tabernacle of Jehovah that Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of the burnt-offering, are at that time in a high place, in Gibeon;
[30] and David is not able to go before it to seek God, for he hath been afraid because of the sword of the messenger of Jehovah.