Satan stood up against Israel, and moved David to take a census of Israel. 2Sa 24:1-25Zec 3:11Ki 22:20-22Job 2:1Job 2:4-6Rev 12:10Act 5:3Heb 10:24 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.” 1Ch 27:23-241Ki 4:251Sa 3:202Ch 30:52Co 12:72Sa 17:112Sa 24:152Sa 24:2-4
Joab said, “May the LORD 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?” Deu 1:111Ch 19:131Ki 14:161Sa 2:24Exo 32:21Gen 20:9Isa 26:15Isa 48:19
Nevertheless the king’s word prevailed against Joab. Therefore Joab departed and went throughout all Israel, then came to Jerusalem. 2Sa 24:3-8Act 5:29Dan 3:18Ecc 8:4Exo 1:17 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. 2Sa 24:91Ch 27:23 But he didn’t count Levi and Benjamin among them, for the king’s word was abominable to Joab. 1Ch 27:24Num 1:47-492Sa 11:15-212Sa 20:9-102Sa 3:27
God was displeased with this thing; therefore he struck Israel. 1Ch 21:141Ki 15:52Sa 11:272Sa 21:12Sa 21:142Sa 24:1Jos 22:16-26Jos 7:1 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.” 2Sa 12:131Jn 1:9Jhn 1:291Sa 13:131Sa 26:212Ch 10:92Sa 13:132Sa 24:10
The LORD spoke to Gad, David’s seer, saying, 1Sa 9:92Sa 24:111Ch 29:29 “Go and speak to David, saying, ‘The LORD says, “I offer you three things. Choose one of them, that I may do it to you.”’” 1Ki 13:21-222Sa 12:10-12Jos 24:15Num 20:12Pro 1:29-31Pro 3:12Rev 3:19
So Gad came to David and said to him, “The LORD says, ‘Take your choice: Pro 19:20 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 the LORD, even pestilence in the land, and the LORD’s angel destroying throughout all the borders of Israel. Now therefore consider what answer I shall return to him who sent me.’” 1Ch 21:15-161Ki 17:12Ki 19:352Ki 8:12Sa 21:12Sa 24:13-14Act 12:23Deu 28:15
David said to Gad, “I am in distress. Let me fall, I pray, into the LORD’s hand, for his mercies are very great. Don’t let me fall into man’s hand.” Psa 130:7Php 1:23Heb 10:31Isa 55:7Jhn 12:272Ch 28:92Ki 6:152Ki 7:4
So the LORD sent a pestilence on Israel, and seventy thousand men of Israel fell. 1Ch 27:241Sa 6:192Ki 19:352Sa 24:15Exo 12:30Num 16:46-49Num 25:9 God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it. As he was about to destroy, the LORD saw, and he relented of the disaster, and said to the destroying angel, “It is enough. Now withdraw your hand.” the LORD’s angel was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. Gen 6:6Exo 32:14Jer 26:18Mat 23:37-38Mrk 14:411Ki 19:42Ch 3:12Sa 24:16 David lifted up his eyes, and saw the LORD’s angel standing between earth and the sky, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Num 14:51Ki 21:272Ki 6:17Jon 3:6-8Jos 5:13-14Psa 35:13-14Exo 14:19-20Gen 3:24
Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell on their faces. 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 LORD my God, be against me and against my father’s house; but not against your people, that they should be plagued.” Ezk 16:631Ch 21:81Jn 3:161Ki 22:172Sa 12:102Sa 24:12Sa 24:172Sa 7:8
Then the LORD’s angel commanded Gad to tell David that David should go up and raise an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. 2Ch 3:12Sa 24:181Ch 21:111Ch 21:15Act 8:26-40 David went up at the saying of Gad, which he spoke in the LORD’s name. 2Ki 5:10-14Act 9:6Jhn 2:5
Ornan turned back and saw the angel; and his four sons who were with him hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat. Jdg 6:11 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. 1Sa 25:232Sa 24:18-20
Then David said to Ornan, “Sell me the place of this threshing floor, that I may build an altar to the LORD on it. You shall sell it to me for the full price, that the plague may be stopped from afflicting the people.” 1Ki 21:22Sa 24:21Num 16:48Num 25:8
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.” 2Sa 24:22-231Sa 6:14Gen 23:4-61Ki 19:21Isa 28:27-28Jer 32:8
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 the LORD, nor offer a burnt offering that costs me nothing.” Deu 16:16-17Gen 14:23Gen 23:13Mal 1:12-14Rom 12:17
So David gave to Ornan six hundred shekels 1 of gold by weight for the place. 2Sa 24:24-25 David built an altar to the LORD there, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and called on the LORD; and he answered him from the sky by fire on the altar of burnt offering. Lev 9:24Jdg 6:211Ki 18:38Pro 15:81Ki 18:241Sa 7:8-92Ch 3:12Ch 7:1
Then the LORD commanded the angel, and he put his sword back into its sheath. 1Ch 21:15-16Ezk 21:30Heb 1:14Jer 47:6Jhn 18:11Mat 26:52Psa 103:201Ch 21:12
At that time, when David saw that the LORD had answered him in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, then he sacrificed there. For the LORD’s tabernacle, which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of burnt offering, were at that time in the high place at Gibeon. 1Ch 16:392Ch 1:132Ch 1:31Ki 3:4-15Exo 40:1-38 But David couldn’t go before it to inquire of God, for he was afraid because of the sword of the LORD’s angel. Heb 12:28-29Rev 1:17Rev 15:41Ch 13:121Ch 21:162Sa 6:9Deu 10:12Jer 10:7