Verse 11
1 Chronicles 21:11
World Messianic Bible
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So Gad came to David, and said to him, “Yahweh says, ‘Take your choice:
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יָּ֥בֹא גָ֖ד אֶל דָּוִ֑יד וַ/יֹּ֥אמֶר ל֛/וֹ כֹּֽה אָמַ֥ר יְהוָ֖ה קַבֶּל לָֽ/ךְ
English Translation
And Gad came to David and said to him, "Thus says the Lord: Receive for yourself."
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Chapter 21 Context
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Satan stood up against Israel, and moved David to take a census of Israel.
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David said to Joab and to the princes of the people, “Go, count Israel from Beersheba even to Dan; a...
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Joab said, “May Yahweh make his people a hundred times as many as they are. But, my lord the king, a...
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Nevertheless the king’s word prevailed against Joab. Therefore Joab departed, and went throughout al...
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Joab gave up the sum of the census of the people to David. All those of Israel were one million one...
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But he didn’t count Levi and Benjamin among them; for the king’s word was abominable to Joab.
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God (Elohim) was displeased with this thing; therefore he struck Israel.
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David said to God (Elohim), “I have sinned greatly, in that I have done this thing. But now put away...
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9
Yahweh spoke to Gad, David’s seer, saying,
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10
“Go and speak to David, saying, ‘Yahweh says, “I offer you three things. Choose one of them, that I...
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So Gad came to David, and said to him, “Yahweh says, ‘Take your choice:
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either three years of famine; or three months to be consumed before your foes, while the sword of yo...
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13
David said to Gad, “I am in distress. Let me fall, I pray, into Yahweh’s hand; for his mercies are v...
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14
So Yahweh sent a pestilence on Israel, and seventy thousand men of Israel fell.
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15
God (Elohim) sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it. As he was about to destroy, Yahweh saw, and h...
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David lifted up his eyes, and saw Yahweh’s angel standing between earth and the sky, having a drawn...
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David said to God (Elohim), “Isn’t it I who commanded the people to be counted? It is even I who hav...
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18
Then Yahweh’s angel commanded Gad to tell David that David should go up and raise an altar to Yahweh...
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19
David went up at the saying of Gad, which he spoke in Yahweh’s name.
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20
Ornan turned back, and saw the angel; and his four sons who were with him hid themselves. Now Ornan...
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21
As David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David, and went out of the threshing floor, and bowed h...
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Then David said to Ornan, “Give me the place of this threshing floor, that I may build an altar to Y...
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Ornan said to David, “Take it for yourself, and let my lord the king do that which is good in his ey...
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King David said to Ornan, “No; but I will most certainly buy it for the full price. For I will not t...
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So David gave to Ornan six hundred shekels of gold by weight for the place.
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David built an altar to Yahweh there, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and called on...
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Then Yahweh commanded the angel, and he put his sword back into its sheath.
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At that time, when David saw that Yahweh had answered him in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusi...
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For Yahweh’s tabernacle, which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of burnt offering, were a...
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But David couldn’t go before it to inquire of God (Elohim); for he was afraid because of the sword o...
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