Verse 6
1 Chronicles 21:6
Young's Literal Translation
6
And Levi and Benjamin he hath not numbered in their midst, for the word of the king was abominable with Joab.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וְ/לֵוִי֙ וּ/בִנְיָמִ֔ן לֹ֥א פָקַ֖ד בְּ/תוֹכָ֑/ם כִּֽי נִתְעַ֥ב דְּבַר הַ/מֶּ֖לֶךְ אֶת יוֹאָֽב
English Translation
And Levi and Benjamin were not counted among them because the word of the king was abhorrent to Joab.
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Chapter 21 Context
1
And there standeth up an adversary against Israel, and persuadeth David to number Israel,
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And David saith unto Joab, and unto the heads of the people, 'Go, number Israel from Beer-Sheba even...
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And Joab saith, 'Jehovah doth add to His people as they are a hundred times; are they not, my lord,...
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And the word of the king [is] severe against Joab, and Joab goeth out, and goeth up and down in all...
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And Joab giveth the account of the numbering of the people unto David, and all Israel is a thousand...
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And Levi and Benjamin he hath not numbered in their midst, for the word of the king was abominable w...
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And it is evil in the eyes of God (Elohim) concerning this thing, and He smiteth Israel,
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and David saith unto God (Elohim), 'I have sinned exceedingly, in that I have done this thing; and n...
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9
And Jehovah speaketh unto Gad, seer of David, saying:
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'Go, and thou hast spoken unto David, saying, Thus said Jehovah, Three -- I am stretching out unto t...
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And Gad cometh in unto David, and saith to him, 'Thus said Jehovah, Take for thee --
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either for three years -- famine, or three months to be consumed from the face of thine adversaries,...
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And David saith unto Gad, 'I am greatly distressed, let me fall, I pray thee, into the hand of Jehov...
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14
And Jehovah giveth a pestilence in Israel, and there fall of Israel seventy thousand men,
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and God (Elohim) sendeth a messenger to Jerusalem to destroy it, and as he is destroying Jehovah hat...
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and David lifteth up his eyes, and seeth the messenger of Jehovah standing between the earth and the...
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And David saith unto God (Elohim), 'Did not I -- I say to number the people? Yea, I it [is] who have...
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18
And the messenger of Jehovah spake unto Gad, saying for David, 'Surely David doth go up to raise an...
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And David goeth up by the word of Gad, that he spake in the name of Jehovah.
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And Ornan turneth back, and seeth the messenger, and his four sons [are] with him, hiding themselves...
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And David cometh in unto Ornan, and Ornan looketh attentively, and seeth David, and goeth out from t...
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And David saith unto Ornan, 'Give to me the place of the threshing-floor, and I build in it an altar...
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And Ornan saith unto David, 'Take to thee -- and my lord the king doth that which is good in his eye...
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And king David saith to Ornan, 'Nay, for I surely buy for full silver; for I do not lift up that whi...
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And David giveth to Ornan for the place shekels of gold [in] weight six hundred;
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and David buildeth there an altar to Jehovah, and offereth burnt-offerings and peace-offerings, and...
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And Jehovah saith to the messenger, and he turneth back his sword unto its sheath.
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At that time when David seeth that Jehovah hath answered him in the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jeb...
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and the tabernacle of Jehovah that Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of the burnt-offering...
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and David is not able to go before it to seek God (Elohim), for he hath been afraid because of the s...
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