American Standard Version (ASV) With Strong Codes

1. And Satan[H7854] stood up[H5975] against Israel[H3478], and moved[H5496] David[H1732] to number[H4487] Israel[H3478].

2. And David[H1732] said[H559] to Joab[H3097] and to the princes[H8269] of the people[H5971], Go[H3212], number[H5608] Israel[H3478] from Beer-sheba[H884] even to Dan[H1835]; and bring[H935] me word[H3045], that I may know the sum of them[H4557].

3. And Joab[H3097] said[H559], Jehovah[H3068] make his people[H5971] a hundred[H3967] times[H6471] as many as they[H1992] are[H113]: but, my lord the king[H4428], are they[H1992] not all my lord[H113]'s servants[H5650]? why doth my lord[H113] require[H1245] this thing[H819]? why will he be a cause of guilt unto Israel[H3478]?

4. Nevertheless the king[H4428]'s word[H1697] prevailed[H2388] against Joab[H3097]. Wherefore Joab[H3097] departed[H3318], and went[H1980] throughout all Israel[H3478], and came[H935] to Jerusalem[H3389].

5. And Joab[H3097] gave[H5414] up the sum[H4557] of the numbering[H4662] of the people[H5971] unto David[H1732]. And all they of Israel[H3478] were a thousand[H505] thousand[H505] and a hundred[H3967] thousand[H505] men[H376] that drew[H8025] sword[H2719]: and Judah[H3063] was four[H702] hundred[H3967] threescore and ten[H7657] thousand[H505] men[H376] that drew[H8025] sword[H2719].

6. But Levi[H3878] and Benjamin[H1144] counted[H6485] he not among[H8432] them[H4428]; for the king's word[H1697] was abominable[H8581] to Joab[H3097].

7. And God[H430] was displeased[H3415] with this thing[H1697]; therefore he smote[H5221] Israel[H3478].

8. And David[H1732] said[H559] unto God[H430], I have sinned[H2398] greatly[H3966], in that I have done[H6213] this thing[H1697]: but now[H5674], put away, I beseech thee[H5771], the iniquity of thy servant[H5650]; for I have done very[H3966] foolishly[H5528].

9. And Jehovah[H3068] spake[H1696] unto Gad[H1410], David[H1732]'s seer[H2374], saying[H559],

10. Go[H3212] and speak[H1696] unto David[H1732], saying[H559], Thus saith[H559] Jehovah[H3068], I offer[H5186] thee three[H7969] things[H977]: choose thee one[H259] of them[H2007], that I may do it unto thee[H6213].

11. So Gad[H1410] came[H935] to David[H1732], and said[H559] unto him[H559], Thus saith Jehovah[H3068], Take which thou wilt[H6901]:

12. either three[H7969] years[H8141] of famine[H7458]; or three[H7969] months[H2320] to be consumed[H5595] before[H6440] thy foes[H6862], while the sword[H2719] of thine enemies[H341] overtaketh[H5381] thee[H518]; or else three[H7969] days[H3117] the sword[H2719] of Jehovah[H3068], even pestilence[H1698] in the land[H776], and the angel[H4397] of Jehovah[H3068] destroying[H7843] throughout all the borders[H1366] of Israel[H3478]. Now therefore consider[H7200] what answer[H1697] I shall return[H7725] to him that sent me[H7971].

13. And David[H1732] said[H559] unto Gad[H1410], I am in a great[H3966] strait[H6887]: let me fall[H5307], I pray[H3027], into the hand of Jehovah[H3068]; for very[H3966] great[H7227] are his mercies[H7356]: and let me not fall[H5307] into the hand[H3027] of man[H120].

14. So Jehovah[H3068] sent[H5414] a pestilence[H1698] upon Israel[H3478]; and there fell[H5307] of Israel[H3478] seventy[H7657] thousand[H505] men[H376].

15. And God[H430] sent[H7971] an angel[H4397] unto Jerusalem[H3389] to destroy[H7843] it[H7843]: and as he was about to destroy, Jehovah[H3068] beheld[H7200], and he repented[H5162] him of the evil[H7451], and said[H559] to the destroying[H7843] angel[H4397], It is enough[H7227]; now stay[H7503] thy hand[H3027]. And the angel[H4397] of Jehovah[H3068] was standing[H5975] by the threshing-floor[H1637] of Ornan[H771] the Jebusite[H2983].

16. And David[H1732] lifted up[H5375] his eyes[H5869], and saw[H7200] the angel[H4397] of Jehovah[H3068] standing[H5975] between earth[H776] and heaven[H8064], having a drawn[H8025] sword[H2719] in his hand[H3027] stretched out[H5186] over Jerusalem[H3389]. Then David[H1732] and the elders[H2205], clothed[H3680] in sackcloth[H8242], fell[H5307] upon their faces[H6440].

17. And David[H1732] said[H559] unto God[H430], Is it not I that commanded[H559] the people[H5971] to be numbered[H4487]? even I it is that have sinned[H2398] and done very[H7489] wickedly[H7489]; but these sheep[H6629], what have they done[H6213]? let thy hand[H3027], I pray thee[H3068], O Jehovah my God[H430], be against me[H1], and against my father's house[H1004]; but not against thy people[H5971], that they should be plagued[H4046].

18. Then the angel[H4397] of Jehovah[H3068] commanded[H559] Gad[H1410] to say[H559] to David[H1732], that David[H1732] should go up[H5927], and rear[H6965] an altar[H4196] unto Jehovah[H3068] in the threshing-floor[H1637] of Ornan[H771] the Jebusite[H2983].

19. And David[H1732] went up[H5927] at the saying[H1697] of Gad[H1410], which he spake[H1696] in the name[H8034] of Jehovah[H3068].

20. And Ornan[H771] turned back[H7725], and saw[H7200] the angel[H4397]; and his four[H702] sons[H1121] that were with him hid[H2244] themselves[H771]. Now Ornan was threshing[H1758] wheat[H2406].

21. And as David[H1732] came[H935] to Ornan[H771], Ornan[H771] looked[H5027] and saw[H7200] David[H1732], and went out[H3318] of the threshing-floor[H1637], and bowed[H7812] himself to David[H1732] with his face[H639] to the ground[H776].

22. Then David[H1732] said[H559] to Ornan[H771], Give[H5414] me the place[H4725] of this threshing-floor[H1637], that I may build[H1129] thereon an altar[H4196] unto Jehovah[H3068]: for the full[H4392] price[H3701] shalt thou give[H5414] it me[H4046], that the plague may be stayed[H6113] from the people[H5971].

23. And Ornan[H771] said[H559] unto David[H1732], Take[H3947] it to thee[H113], and let my lord the king[H4428] do[H6213] that which is good[H2896] in his eyes[H5869]: lo[H7200], I give[H5414] thee the oxen[H1241] for burnt-offerings[H5930], and the threshing instruments[H4173] for wood[H6086], and the wheat[H2406] for the meal-offering[H4503]; I give it all[H5414].

24. And king[H4428] David[H1732] said[H559] to Ornan[H771], Nay[H7069]; but I will verily buy[H7069] it for the full[H4392] price[H3701]: for I will not take[H5375] that which is thine for Jehovah[H3068], nor offer[H5927] a burnt-offering[H5930] without cost[H2600].

25. So David[H1732] gave[H5414] to Ornan[H771] for the place[H4725] six[H8337] hundred[H3967] shekels[H8255] of gold[H2091] by weight[H4948].

26. And David[H1732] built[H1129] there an altar[H4196] unto Jehovah[H3068], and offered[H5927] burnt-offerings[H5930] and peace-offerings[H5930], and called[H7121] upon Jehovah[H3068]; and he answered[H6030] him from heaven[H8064] by fire[H784] upon the altar[H4196] of burnt-offering[H5930].

27. And Jehovah[H3068] commanded[H559] the angel[H4397]; and he put up[H7725] his sword[H2719] again[H7725] into the sheath thereof[H5084].

28. At that time[H6256], when David[H1732] saw[H7200] that Jehovah[H3068] had answered[H6030] him in the threshing-floor[H1637] of Ornan[H771] the Jebusite[H2983], then he sacrificed there[H2076].

29. For the tabernacle[H4908] of Jehovah[H3068], which Moses[H4872] made[H6213] in the wilderness[H4057], and the altar[H4196] of burnt-offering[H5930], were at that time[H6256] in the high place[H1116] at Gibeon[H1391].

30. But David[H1732] could[H3201] not go[H3212] before[H6440] it to inquire[H1875] of God[H430]; for he was afraid[H1204] because[H6440] of the sword[H2719] of the angel[H4397] of Jehovah[H3068].