2 Samuel 24:10-25

2 Samuel 24:10-25

[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  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.  [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.  [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.  [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  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.