1 Chronicles · Darby Translation
1 Chronicles 21 Darby Translation
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1 And Satan stood up against Israel, and moved David to number Israel.
1 Satan stood up against Israel, and moved David to take a census of Israel.
2 And David said to Joab and to the princes 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.
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 And Joab said, Jehovah add to his people, how many soever they be, a hundredfold: are they not all, my lord O king, my lord's servants? why does my lord require this thing? why should he become a trespass to Israel?
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 But the king's word prevailed against Joab; and Joab departed, and went through all Israel, and came [again] to Jerusalem.
4 Nevertheless the king’s word prevailed against Joab. Therefore Joab departed and went throughout all Israel, then came to Jerusalem.
5 And Joab gave the sum of the number of the people to David. And all they of Israel were eleven hundred thousand men that drew sword; and of Judah, four hundred and seventy thousand men that drew sword.
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 Levi and Benjamin he did not count among them; for the king's word was abominable to Joab.
6 But he didn’t count Levi and Benjamin among them, for the king’s word was abominable to Joab.
7 And God was displeased on account of this thing, and he smote Israel.
7 God was displeased with this thing; therefore he struck Israel.
8 And David said to God, I have sinned greatly, in that I have done this thing; and now, I beseech thee, put away the iniquity of thy servant; for I have done very foolishly.
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 And Jehovah spoke to Gad, David's seer, saying,
9 Yahweh spoke to Gad, David’s seer, saying,
10 Go and speak to David saying, Thus saith Jehovah: I offer thee three [things]; choose one of them, that I may do it unto thee.
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 And Gad came to David, and said to him, Thus saith Jehovah:
11 So Gad came to David and said to him, “Yahweh says, ‘Take your choice:
12 Choose thee, either three years of famine, or three months to be destroyed before thine adversaries while that the sword of thine enemies overtaketh thee, or three days the sword of Jehovah and the pestilence in the land, and the angel of Jehovah destroying through all the borders of Israel. And now consider what word I shall bring again to him that sent me.
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 And David said to Gad, I am in a great strait: let me fall, I pray thee, into the hand of Jehovah, for his mercies are very great; but let me not fall into the hand of man.
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 And Jehovah sent a pestilence upon Israel; and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men.
14 So Yahweh sent a pestilence on Israel, and seventy thousand men of Israel fell.
15 And God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it; and as he was destroying, Jehovah beheld, and he repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed, It is enough; withdraw now thine hand. And the angel of Jehovah stood by the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
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 And David lifted up his eyes, and saw the angel of Jehovah stand between the earth and the heavens, and his sword drawn in his hand, stretched out over Jerusalem. And David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell on their faces.
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 And David said to God, Is it not I that commanded the people to be numbered? It is I that have sinned and done evil; but these sheep, what have they done? Let thy hand, I pray thee, Jehovah my God, be on me and on my father's house; but not on thy people, that they should be smitten.
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 And the angel of Jehovah commanded Gad to say to David, that David should go up and rear an altar to Jehovah in the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
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 And David went up at the saying of Gad, which he had spoken in the name of Jehovah.
19 David went up at the saying of Gad, which he spoke in Yahweh’s name.
20 And Ornan turned back and saw the angel; and his four sons with him hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat.
20 Ornan turned back and saw the angel; and his four sons who were with him hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat.
21 And David came to Ornan, and Ornan looked and saw David, and went out of the threshing-floor, and bowed himself to David with [his] face to the ground.
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 And David said to Ornan, Grant me the place of the threshing-floor, that I may build an altar in it to Jehovah: grant it to me for the full money, that the plague may be stayed from the people.
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 And Ornan said to David, Take it to thee, and let my lord the king do that which is good in his sight: see, I give the oxen for the burnt-offering, and the threshing-sledges for wood, and the wheat for the oblation; I give it all.
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 And king David said to Ornan, No; but I will in any case buy [them] for the full money; for I will not take that which is thine for Jehovah, to offer up a burnt-offering without cost.
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 And David gave to Ornan for the place in shekels of gold the weight of six hundred [shekels].
25 So David gave to Ornan six hundred shekels of gold by weight for the place.
26 And David built there an altar to Jehovah, and offered up burnt-offerings and peace-offerings, and called upon Jehovah; and he answered him from the heavens by fire upon the altar of burnt-offering.
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 And Jehovah spoke to the angel; and he put up his sword again into its sheath.
27 Then Yahweh commanded the angel, and he put his sword back into its sheath.
28 At that time when David saw that Jehovah had answered him in the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite, then he sacrificed there.
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 And the tabernacle of Jehovah, which Moses had made in the wilderness, and the altar of burnt-offering, were at that time in the high place at Gibeon.
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 could not go before it to inquire of God; for he was afraid because of the sword of the angel of Jehovah.
30 But David couldn’t go before it to inquire of God, for he was afraid because of the sword of Yahweh’s angel.
Cross references (29)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 2 Samuel 24:1–25; Zechariah 3:1; Revelation 12:10; Job 2:4–6; Job 2:1
- 2 1 Chronicles 27:23–24; Judges 20:1; 2 Chronicles 30:5; 1 Samuel 3:20; 2 Samuel 24:15
- 3 Deuteronomy 1:11; Genesis 20:9; Proverbs 14:28; 1 Samuel 2:24; Isaiah 26:15
- 4 Daniel 3:18; Acts 5:29; Ecclesiastes 8:4; Exodus 1:17; 2 Samuel 24:3–8
- 5 2 Samuel 24:9; 1 Chronicles 27:23
- 6 1 Chronicles 27:24; Numbers 1:47–49; 2 Samuel 20:9–10; 2 Samuel 11:15–21; 2 Samuel 3:27
- 7 2 Samuel 21:1; Joshua 22:16–26; 2 Samuel 24:1; Joshua 7:13; 1 Chronicles 21:14
- 8 2 Samuel 12:13; 1 John 1:9; John 1:29; Psalm 32:5; 2 Samuel 13:13
- 9 1 Samuel 9:9; 2 Samuel 24:11; 1 Chronicles 29:29
- 10 Proverbs 1:29–31; Numbers 20:12; Proverbs 3:12; Revelation 3:19; 2 Samuel 12:10–12
- 11 Proverbs 19:20
- 12 Matthew 13:49–50; 1 Chronicles 21:15–16; Acts 12:23; Deuteronomy 28:35; Jeremiah 47:6
- 13 Psalm 130:7; Philippians 1:23; Hebrews 10:31; Isaiah 55:7; John 12:27
- 14 Numbers 16:46–49; 2 Kings 19:35; 2 Samuel 24:15; 1 Chronicles 27:24; Numbers 25:9
- 15 Genesis 6:6; Exodus 32:14; Mark 14:41; Matthew 23:37–38; Jeremiah 26:18
- 16 Numbers 14:5; 1 Kings 21:27; Joshua 5:13–14; Psalm 35:13–14; 2 Kings 6:17
- 17 Ezekiel 16:63; Psalm 44:11; Genesis 44:33; 1 John 3:16; 1 Chronicles 21:8
- 18 2 Chronicles 3:1; 2 Samuel 24:18; 1 Chronicles 21:11; 1 Chronicles 21:15; Acts 8:26–40
- 19 John 2:5; 2 Kings 5:10–14; Acts 9:6
- 20 Judges 6:11
- 21 1 Samuel 25:23; 2 Samuel 24:18–20
- 22 2 Samuel 24:21; 1 Kings 21:2; Numbers 25:8; Numbers 16:48
- 23 2 Samuel 24:22–23; 1 Samuel 6:14; Genesis 23:4–6; Jeremiah 32:8; Isaiah 28:27–28
- 24 Deuteronomy 16:16–17; Genesis 23:13; Genesis 14:23; Malachi 1:12–14
- 25 2 Samuel 24:24–25
- 26 Leviticus 9:24; Judges 6:21; Proverbs 15:8; 1 Kings 18:38; Psalm 51:15
- 27 Matthew 26:52; Psalm 103:20; Hebrews 1:14; Ezekiel 21:30; 1 Chronicles 21:15–16
- 29 1 Chronicles 16:39; 2 Chronicles 1:13; 2 Chronicles 1:3; 1 Kings 3:4–15; Exodus 40:1–38
- 30 Hebrews 12:28–29; Revelation 1:17; Revelation 15:4; Jeremiah 5:22; 2 Samuel 6:9
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