Verse 3
1 Chronicles 21:3
Literal Standard Version
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And Joab says, “YHWH adds to His people as they are one hundred times; are they not, my lord, O king, all of them for servants to my lord? Why does my lord seek this? Why is he for a cause of guilt to Israel?”
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר יוֹאָ֗ב יוֹסֵף֩ יְהוָ֨ה עַל עַמּ֤/וֹ כָּ/הֵם֙ מֵאָ֣ה פְעָמִ֔ים הֲ/לֹא֙ אֲדֹנִ֣/י הַ/מֶּ֔לֶךְ כֻּלָּ֥/ם לַ/אדֹנִ֖/י לַ/עֲבָדִ֑ים לָ֣/מָּה יְבַקֵּ֥שׁ זֹאת֙ אֲדֹנִ֔/י לָ֛/מָּה יִהְיֶ֥ה לְ/אַשְׁמָ֖ה לְ/יִשְׂרָאֵֽל
English Translation
And Joab said, "May the Lord add to His people a hundred times as many as they are. My lord the king, all are your servants. Why should my lord seek this? Why should there be a guilt offering for Israel?"
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Chapter 21 Context
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Then Satan stands up against Israel, and persuades David to number Israel,
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and David says to Joab and to the heads of the people, “Go, number Israel from Beer-Sheba even to Da...
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And Joab says, “YHWH adds to His people as they are one hundred times; are they not, my lord, O king...
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And the word of the king is severe against Joab, and Joab goes out, and goes up and down in all Isra...
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And Joab gives the account of the numbering of the people to David, and all Israel is one million an...
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And he has not numbered Levi and Benjamin in their midst, for the word of the king was abominable wi...
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And it is evil in the eyes of God (Elohim) concerning this thing, and He strikes Israel,
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and David says to God (Elohim), “I have sinned exceedingly in that I have done this thing; and now,...
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And YHWH speaks to Gad, seer of David, saying,
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“Go, and you have spoken to David, saying, Thus said YHWH: I am extending three choices to you; choo...
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And Gad comes to David and says to him, “Thus said YHWH: Take for yourself—
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either famine for three years, or three months to be consumed from the face of your adversaries (eve...
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And David says to Gad, “I am greatly distressed, please let me fall into the hand of YHWH, for His m...
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And YHWH gives a pestilence in Israel, and there falls from Israel seventy thousand men,
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and God (Elohim) sends a messenger to Jerusalem to destroy it, and as he is destroying, YHWH has see...
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and David lifts up his eyes, and sees the messenger of YHWH standing between the earth and the heave...
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And David says to God (Elohim), “Did I not command to number the people? Indeed, it is I who have si...
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And the messenger of YHWH commanded to Gad to say to David, “Surely David goes up to raise an altar...
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And David goes up by the word of Gad, that he spoke in the Name of YHWH.
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And Ornan turns back and sees the messenger, and his four sons are with him hiding themselves, and O...
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And David comes to Ornan, and Ornan looks attentively and sees David, and goes out from the threshin...
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And David says to Ornan, “Give the place of the threshing-floor to me, and I build an altar to YHWH...
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And Ornan says to David, “Take it to yourself, and my lord the king does that which is good in his e...
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And King David says to Ornan, “No, for I surely buy it for full price; for I do not lift up that whi...
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And David gives to Ornan six hundred shekels of gold in weight for the place;
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and David builds an altar to YHWH there, and offers burnt-offerings and peace-offerings, and calls t...
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And YHWH speaks to the messenger, and he turns back his sword to its sheath.
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At that time, when David sees that YHWH has answered him in the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusit...
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and the Dwelling Place of YHWH that Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of the burnt-offerin...
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and David is not able to go before it to seek God (Elohim), for he has been afraid because of the sw...
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