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World English Bible

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 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 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.

1 Chronicles 21:7 And it was evil in the eyes of the LORD concerning this thing
1 Chronicles 21:10 Heb. stretch out
1 Chronicles 21:11 Heb. take to thee
1 Chronicles 21:13 Or, many
1 Chronicles 21:15 Or, Araunah
1 Chronicles 21:22 Heb. give

Scripture quotations from The Authorized King James Version of the Holy Bible, using the standardized text of 1769. It is in the public domain.

Greek Bible (LXX/BYZ)

1 Chronicles 21 (BYZ)

[1] Καὶ () ἔστη () διάβολος () ἐν () τῷ () Ισραηλ () καὶ () ἐπέσεισεν τὸν () Δαυιδ () τοῦ () ἀριθμῆσαι () τὸν () Ισραηλ. ()
[2] Καὶ () εἶπεν ὁ () βασιλεὺς () Δαυιδ () πρὸς () Ιωαβ καὶ () πρὸς () τοὺς () ἄρχοντας () τῆς () δυνάμεως () Πορεύθητε () ἀριθμήσατε () τὸν () Ισραηλ () ἀπὸ () Βηρσαβεε καὶ () ἕως () Δαν καὶ () ἐνέγκατε () πρός () με, () καὶ () γνώσομαι () τὸν () ἀριθμὸν () αὐτῶν. ()
[3] Καὶ () εἶπεν Ιωαβ Προσθείη () κύριος () ἐπὶ () τὸν () λαὸν () αὐτοῦ () ὡς () αὐτοὶ () ἑκατονταπλασίως, () καὶ () οἱ () ὀφθαλμοὶ () κυρίου () μου () τοῦ () βασιλέως () βλέποντες· () πάντες () τῷ () κυρίῳ () μου () παῖδες· () ἵνα () τί () ζητεῖ () ὁ () κύριός () μου () τοῦτο; () Ἵνα () μὴ () γένηται () εἰς () ἁμαρτίαν () τῷ () Ισραηλ. ()
[4] Τὸ () δὲ () ῥῆμα () τοῦ () βασιλέως () ἐκραταιώθη () ἐπὶ () τῷ () Ιωαβ. Καὶ () ἐξῆλθεν () Ιωαβ καὶ () διῆλθεν () ἐν () παντὶ () ὁρίῳ () Ισραηλ () καὶ () ἦλθεν () εἰς () Ιερουσαλημ. ()
[5] Καὶ () ἔδωκεν () Ιωαβ τὸν () ἀριθμὸν () τῆς () ἐπισκέψεως τοῦ () λαοῦ () τῷ () Δαυιδ, () καὶ () ἦν () πᾶς () Ισραηλ () χίλιαι () χιλιάδες () καὶ () ἑκατὸν () χιλιάδες () ἀνδρῶν () ἐσπασμένων () μάχαιραν () καὶ () Ιουδας () τετρακόσιαι () καὶ () ὀγδοήκοντα () χιλιάδες () ἀνδρῶν () ἐσπασμένων () μάχαιραν. ()
[6] Καὶ () τὸν () Λευι () καὶ () τὸν () Βενιαμιν () οὐκ () ἠρίθμησεν () ἐν () μέσῳ () αὐτῶν, () ὅτι () κατίσχυσεν () λόγος () τοῦ () βασιλέως () τὸν () Ιωαβ.
[7] Καὶ () πονηρὸν () ἐφάνη () ἐναντίον () τοῦ () θεοῦ () περὶ () τοῦ () πράγματος () τούτου, () καὶ () ἐπάταξεν () τὸν () Ισραηλ. ()
[8] Καὶ () εἶπεν Δαυιδ () πρὸς () τὸν () θεόν () Ἡμάρτηκα () σφόδρα () ὅτι () ἐποίησα () τὸ () πρᾶγμα () τοῦτο· () καὶ () νῦν () περίελε () δὴ () τὴν () κακίαν () παιδός () σου, () ὅτι () ἐματαιώθην () σφόδρα. ()
[9] Καὶ () ἐλάλησεν () κύριος () πρὸς () Γαδ () ὁρῶντα Δαυιδ () λέγων ()
[10] Πορεύου () καὶ () λάλησον () πρὸς () Δαυιδ () λέγων () Οὕτως () λέγει () κύριος () Τρία () αἴρω () ἐγὼ () ἐπὶ () σέ, () ἔκλεξαι σεαυτῷ () ἓν () ἐξ () αὐτῶν () καὶ () ποιήσω () σοι. ()
[11] Καὶ () ἦλθεν () Γαδ () πρὸς () Δαυιδ () καὶ () εἶπεν αὐτῷ () Οὕτως () λέγει () κύριος () Ἔκλεξαι σεαυτῷ ()
[12] ἢ () τρία () ἔτη () λιμοῦ, () ἢ () τρεῖς () μῆνας () φεύγειν () σε () ἐκ () προσώπου () ἐχθρῶν () σου () καὶ () μάχαιραν () ἐχθρῶν () σου () τοῦ () ἐξολεθρεῦσαι, () ἢ () τρεῖς () ἡμέρας () ῥομφαίαν () κυρίου () καὶ () θάνατον () ἐν () τῇ () γῇ () καὶ () ἄγγελος () κυρίου () ἐξολεθρεύων () ἐν () πάσῃ () κληρονομίᾳ () Ισραηλ· () καὶ () νῦν () ἰδὲ () τί () ἀποκριθῶ () τῷ () ἀποστείλαντί () με () λόγον. ()
[13] Καὶ () εἶπεν Δαυιδ () πρὸς () Γαδ () Στενά () μοι () καὶ () τὰ () τρία () σφόδρα· () ἐμπεσοῦμαι () δὴ () εἰς () χεῖρας () κυρίου, () ὅτι () πολλοὶ () οἱ () οἰκτιρμοὶ () αὐτοῦ () σφόδρα, () καὶ () εἰς () χεῖρας () ἀνθρώπων () οὐ () μὴ () ἐμπέσω. ()
[14] Καὶ () ἔδωκεν () κύριος () θάνατον () ἐν () Ισραηλ, () καὶ () ἔπεσον () ἐξ () Ισραηλ () ἑβδομήκοντα () χιλιάδες () ἀνδρῶν. ()
[15] Καὶ () ἀπέστειλεν () ὁ () θεὸς () ἄγγελον () εἰς () Ιερουσαλημ () τοῦ () ἐξολεθρεῦσαι () αὐτήν. () Καὶ () ὡς () ἐξωλέθρευσεν, () εἶδεν () κύριος () καὶ () μετεμελήθη () ἐπὶ () τῇ () κακίᾳ () καὶ () εἶπεν τῷ () ἀγγέλῳ () τῷ () ἐξολεθρεύοντι () Ἱκανούσθω () σοι, () ἄνες () τὴν () χεῖρά () σου· () καὶ () ὁ () ἄγγελος () κυρίου () ἑστὼς () ἐν () τῷ () ἅλῳ () Ορνα τοῦ () Ιεβουσαίου.
[16] Καὶ () ἐπῆρεν () Δαυιδ () τοὺς () ὀφθαλμοὺς () αὐτοῦ () καὶ () εἶδεν () τὸν () ἄγγελον () κυρίου () ἑστῶτα () ἀνὰ () μέσον () τῆς () γῆς () καὶ () ἀνὰ () μέσον () τοῦ () οὐρανοῦ, () καὶ () ἡ () ῥομφαία () αὐτοῦ () ἐσπασμένη () ἐν () τῇ () χειρὶ () αὐτοῦ () ἐκτεταμένη () ἐπὶ () Ιερουσαλημ· () καὶ () ἔπεσεν () Δαυιδ () καὶ () οἱ () πρεσβύτεροι () περιβεβλημένοι () ἐν () σάκκοις () ἐπὶ () πρόσωπον () αὐτῶν. ()
[17] Καὶ () εἶπεν Δαυιδ () πρὸς () τὸν () θεόν () Οὐκ () ἐγὼ () εἶπα τοῦ () ἀριθμῆσαι () ἐν () τῷ () λαῷ; () Καὶ () ἐγώ () εἰμι () ὁ () ἁμαρτών, () κακοποιῶν () ἐκακοποίησα· () καὶ () ταῦτα () τὰ () πρόβατα () τί () ἐποίησαν; () Κύριε () ὁ () θεός, () γενηθήτω () ἡ () χείρ () σου () ἐν () ἐμοὶ () καὶ () ἐν () τῷ () οἴκῳ () τοῦ () πατρός () μου () καὶ () μὴ () ἐν () τῷ () λαῷ () σου () εἰς () ἀπώλειαν, () κύριε. ()
[18] Καὶ () ἄγγελος () κυρίου () εἶπεν τῷ () Γαδ () τοῦ () εἰπεῖν πρὸς () Δαυιδ () ἵνα () ἀναβῇ () τοῦ () στῆσαι () θυσιαστήριον () τῷ () κυρίῳ () ἐν () ἅλῳ () Ορνα τοῦ () Ιεβουσαίου.
[19] Καὶ () ἀνέβη () Δαυιδ () κατὰ () τὸν () λόγον () Γαδ, () ὃν () ἐλάλησεν () ἐν () ὀνόματι () κυρίου. ()
[20] Καὶ () ἐπέστρεψεν () Ορνα καὶ () εἶδεν () τὸν () βασιλέα () καὶ () τέσσαρες () υἱοὶ () αὐτοῦ () μετ’ () αὐτοῦ () μεθαχαβιν· καὶ () Ορνα ἦν () ἀλοῶν () πυρούς.
[21] Καὶ () ἦλθεν () Δαυιδ () πρὸς () Ορναν, καὶ () Ορνα ἐξῆλθεν () ἐκ () τῆς () ἅλω () καὶ () προσεκύνησεν () τῷ () Δαυιδ () τῷ () προσώπῳ () ἐπὶ () τὴν () γῆν. ()
[22] Καὶ () εἶπεν Δαυιδ () πρὸς () Ορνα Δός () μοι () τὸν () τόπον () σου () τῆς () ἅλω, () καὶ () οἰκοδομήσω () ἐπ’ () αὐτῷ () θυσιαστήριον () τῷ () κυρίῳ· () ἐν () ἀργυρίῳ () ἀξίῳ () δός () μοι () αὐτόν, () καὶ () παύσεται () ἡ () πληγὴ () ἐκ () τοῦ () λαοῦ. ()
[23] Καὶ () εἶπεν Ορνα πρὸς () Δαυιδ () Λαβὲ () σεαυτῷ, () καὶ () ποιησάτω () ὁ () κύριός () μου () ὁ () βασιλεὺς () τὸ () ἀγαθὸν () ἐναντίον () αὐτοῦ· () ἰδὲ () δέδωκα () τοὺς () μόσχους () εἰς () ὁλοκαύτωσιν καὶ () τὸ () ἄροτρον () καὶ () τὰς () ἁμάξας εἰς () ξύλα () καὶ () τὸν () σῖτον () εἰς () θυσίαν, () τὰ () πάντα () δέδωκα. ()
[24] Καὶ () εἶπεν ὁ () βασιλεὺς () Δαυιδ () τῷ () Ορνα Οὐχί, () ὅτι () ἀγοράζων () ἀγοράζω () ἐν () ἀργυρίῳ () ἀξίῳ· () ὅτι () οὐ () μὴ () λάβω () ἅ () ἐστίν () σοι () κυρίῳ () τοῦ () ἀνενέγκαι () ὁλοκαύτωσιν δωρεὰν () κυρίῳ. ()
[25] Καὶ () ἔδωκεν () Δαυιδ () τῷ () Ορνα ἐν () τῷ () τόπῳ () αὐτοῦ () σίκλους χρυσίου () ὁλκῆς ἑξακοσίους. ()
[26] Καὶ () ᾠκοδόμησεν () Δαυιδ () ἐκεῖ () θυσιαστήριον () κυρίῳ () καὶ () ἀνήνεγκεν () ὁλοκαυτώματα () καὶ () σωτηρίου· () καὶ () ἐβόησεν () πρὸς () κύριον, () καὶ () ἐπήκουσεν () αὐτῷ () ἐν () πυρὶ () ἐκ () τοῦ () οὐρανοῦ () ἐπὶ () τὸ () θυσιαστήριον () τῆς () ὁλοκαυτώσεως καὶ () κατανάλωσεν () τὴν () ὁλοκαύτωσιν.
[27] Καὶ () εἶπεν κύριος () πρὸς () τὸν () ἄγγελον, () καὶ () κατέθηκεν () τὴν () ῥομφαίαν () εἰς () τὸν () κολεόν. —
[28] ἐν () τῷ () καιρῷ () ἐκείνῳ () ἐν () τῷ () ἰδεῖν () τὸν () Δαυιδ () ὅτι () ἐπήκουσεν () αὐτῷ () κύριος () ἐν () τῷ () ἅλῳ () Ορνα τοῦ () Ιεβουσαίου, καὶ () ἐθυσίασεν ἐκεῖ. ()
[29] Καὶ () σκηνὴ () κυρίου, () ἣν () ἐποίησεν () Μωϋσῆς () ἐν () τῇ () ἐρήμῳ, () καὶ () θυσιαστήριον () τῶν () ὁλοκαυτωμάτων () ἐν () τῷ () καιρῷ () ἐκείνῳ () ἐν () Βαμα ἐν () Γαβαων·
[30] καὶ () οὐκ () ἠδύνατο () Δαυιδ () τοῦ () πορευθῆναι () ἔμπροσθεν () αὐτοῦ () τοῦ () ζητῆσαι () τὸν () θεόν, () ὅτι () κατέσπευσεν ἀπὸ () προσώπου () τῆς () ῥομφαίας () ἀγγέλου () κυρίου. ()

Old Testament scripture quotations and versification from Septuaginta, edited by Alfred Rahlfs (Stuttgart: Württembergische Bibelanstalt, 1935). New Testament quotations are from the Byzantine Text (Guardian Press, Inc., Robinson-Pierpont Byzantine Textform, 2026). Both are in the public domain.