Verse 13
1 Chronicles 21:13
American Standard Version Byzantine Text
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And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let me fall, I pray, into the hand of Jehovah; for very great are his mercies: and let me not fall into the hand of man.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יֹּ֧אמֶר דָּוִ֛יד אֶל גָּ֖ד צַר לִ֣/י מְאֹ֑ד אֶפְּלָה נָּ֣א בְ/יַד יְהוָ֗ה כִּֽי רַבִּ֤ים רַחֲמָי/ו֙ מְאֹ֔ד וּ/בְ/יַד אָדָ֖ם אַל אֶפֹּֽל
English Translation
And David said to Gad, "I am in great distress; let me fall into the hand of the Lord, for His mercies are very great, but do not let me fall into the hand of man."
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Chapter 21 Context
1
And Satan stood up against Israel, and moved David to number Israel.
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And David said to Joab and to the princes of the people, Go, number Israel from Beer-sheba even to D...
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And Joab said, Jehovah 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. Wherefore Joab departed, and went throughout al...
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And Joab gave up the sum of the numbering of the people unto David. And all they of Israel were a th...
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But Levi and Benjamin counted he not among them; for the king’s word was abominable to Joab.
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And God (Elohim) was displeased with this thing; therefore he smote Israel.
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And David said unto God (Elohim), I have sinned greatly, in that I have done this thing: but now, pu...
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And Jehovah spake unto Gad, David’s seer, saying,
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Go and speak unto David, saying, Thus saith Jehovah, I offer thee three things: choose thee one of t...
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So Gad came to David, and said unto him, Thus saith Jehovah, Take which thou wilt:
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either three years of famine; or three months to be consumed before thy foes, while the sword of thi...
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13
And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let me fall, I pray, into the hand of Jehovah; for...
14
So Jehovah sent a pestilence upon Israel; and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men.
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15
And God (Elohim) sent an angel unto Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he was about to destroy, Jehovah...
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16
And David lifted up his eyes, and saw the angel of Jehovah standing between earth and heaven, having...
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17
And David said unto God (Elohim), Is it not I that commanded the people to be numbered? even I it is...
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18
Then the angel of Jehovah commanded Gad to say to David, that David should go up, and rear an altar...
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And David went up at the saying of Gad, which he spake in the name of Jehovah.
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And Ornan turned back, and saw the angel; and his four sons that were with him hid themselves. Now O...
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21
And as David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David, and went out of the threshing floor, and bow...
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Then David said to Ornan, Give me the place of this threshing floor, that I may build thereon an alt...
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And Ornan said unto David, Take it to thee, and let my lord the king do that which is good in his ey...
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And king David said to Ornan, Nay; but I will verily buy it for the full price: for I will not take...
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So David gave to Ornan for the place six hundred shekels of gold by weight.
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And David built there an altar unto Jehovah, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and ca...
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27
And Jehovah commanded the angel; and he put up his sword again into the sheath thereof.
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At that time, when David saw that Jehovah had answered him in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebus...
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For the tabernacle of Jehovah, which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of burnt offering,...
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But David could not go before it to inquire of God (Elohim); for he was afraid because of the sword...
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