| 1:Now it came to pass after this, that Nahash the king
of the children of Ammon died, and his son reigned in his stead. |
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| 2: And David said, I will shew kindness unto Hanun the son of
Nahash, because his father shewed kindness to me. And David sent
messengers to comfort him concerning his father. So the servants of
David came into the land of the children of Ammon to Hanun, to comfort
him. |
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But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun,
Thinkest thou that David doth honour thy father, that he hath sent
comforters unto thee? are not his servants come unto thee for to search,
and to overthrow, and to spy out the land? |
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| 4: Wherefore Hanun took David's servants, and shaved them, and
cut off their garments in the midst hard by their buttocks, and sent
them away. |
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| 5: Then there went certain, and told David how the men were
served. And he sent to meet them: for the men were greatly ashamed. And
the king said, Tarry at Jericho until your beards be grown, and then
return. |
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| 6: And when the children of Ammon saw that they had made
themselves odious to David, Hanun and the children of Ammon sent a
thousand talents of silver to hire them chariots and horsemen out of
Mesopotamia, and out of Syria-maachah, and out of Zobah. |
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| 7:
:So they hired thirty and two thousand chariots, and the king
of Maachah and his people; who came and pitched before Medeba. And the
children of Ammon gathered themselves together from their cities, and
came to battle. |
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| 8: And when David heard of it, he sent Joab, and all the host of
the mighty men. |
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| 9: And the children of Ammon came out, and put the battle in
array before the gate of the city: and the kings that were come were by
themselves in the field. |
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| 10: Now when Joab saw that the battle was set against him before
and behind, he chose out of all the choice of Israel, and put them in
array against the Syrians. |
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| 11: And the rest of the people he delivered unto the hand of
Abishai his brother, and they set themselves in array against the
children of Ammon. |
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| 12: And he said, If the Syrians be too strong for me, then thou
shalt help me: but if the children of Ammon be too strong for thee, then
I will help thee. |
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| 13: Be of good courage, and let us behave ourselves valiantly for
our people, and for the cities of our God: and let the LORD do that
which is good in his sight. |
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| 14: So Joab and the people that were with him drew nigh before
the Syrians unto the battle; and they fled before him. |
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| 15: And when the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians were
fled, they likewise fled before Abishai his brother, and entered into
the city. Then Joab came to Jerusalem. |
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| 16: And when the Syrians saw that they were put to the worse
before Israel, they sent messengers, and drew forth the Syrians that
were beyond the river: and Shophach the captain of the host of Hadarezer
went before them. |
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| 17: And it was told David; and he gathered all Israel,
and passed over Jordan, and came upon them, and set the
battle in array against them. So when David had put the
battle in array against the Syrians, they fought with him. |
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| 18: But the Syrians fled before Israel; and David slew of the
Syrians seven thousand men which fought in chariots, and forty thousand
footmen, and killed Shophach the captain of the host. |
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| 19: And when the servants of Hadarezer saw that they were put to
the worse before Israel, they made peace with David, and became his
servants: neither would the Syrians help the children of Ammon any more.
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| 1:And it came to pass, that after the year was expired,
at the time that kings go out to battle, Joab led forth the power of the
army, and wasted the country of the children of Ammon, and came and
besieged Rabbah. But David tarried at Jerusalem. And Joab smote Rabbah,
and destroyed it. |
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| 2: And David took the crown of their king from off his head, and
found it to weigh a talent of gold, and there were precious stones in
it; and it was set upon David's head: and he brought also exceeding much
spoil out of the city. |
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And he brought out the people that were in it, and cut them
with saws, and with harrows of iron, and with axes. Even so dealt David
with all the cities of the children of Ammon. And David and all the
people returned to Jerusalem. |
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| 4: And it came to pass after this, that there arose war at Gezer
with the Philistines; at which time Sibbechai the Hushathite slew Sippai,
that was of the children of the giant: and they were subdued. |
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| 5: And there was war again with the Philistines; and Elhanan the
son of Jair slew Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, whose spear
staff was like a weaver's beam. |
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| 6: And yet again there was war at Gath, where was a man of great
stature, whose fingers and toes were four and twenty, six on each hand,
and six on each foot: and he also was the son of the giant. |
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| 7:
:But when he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea David's
brother slew him. |
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| 8: These were born unto the giant in Gath; and they fell by the
hand of David, and by the hand of his servants. |
| 1:And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David
to number Israel. |
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| 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. |
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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? |
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| 4: Nevertheless the king's word prevailed against Joab. Wherefore
Joab departed, and went throughout all Israel, and came to Jerusalem.
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| 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. |
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| 6: But Levi and Benjamin counted he not among them: for the
king's word was abominable to Joab. |
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| 7:
:And God was displeased with this thing; therefore he smote
Israel. |
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| 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. |
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| 9: And the LORD spake unto Gad, David's seer, saying,
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| 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. |
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| 11: So Gad came to David, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD,
Choose thee |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 14: So the LORD sent pestilence upon Israel: and there fell of
Israel seventy thousand men. |
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| 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.
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 19: And David went up at the saying of Gad, which he spake in the
name of the LORD. |
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| 20: And Ornan turned back, and saw the angel; and his four sons
with him hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 25: So David gave to Ornan for the place six hundred shekels of
gold by weight. |
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| 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. |
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| 27: And the LORD commanded the angel; and he put up his sword
again into the sheath thereof. |
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| 28: At that time when David saw that the LORD had answered him in
the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite, then he sacrificed there. |
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| 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. |
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| 30: But David could not go before it to inquire of God: for he
was afraid because of the sword of the angel of the LORD. |
| 1:What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is
there of circumcision? |
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| 2: Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed
the oracles of God. |
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For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make
the faith of God without effect? |
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| 4: God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it
is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest
overcome when thou art judged. |
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| 5: But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God,
what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as
a man) |
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| 6: God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?
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:For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto
his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner? |
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| 8: And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some
affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation
is just. |
