Verse 5
1 Chronicles 21:5
Bible in Basic English
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And Joab gave David the number of all the people; all the men of Israel, able to take up arms, were one million, one hundred thousand men; and those of Judah were four hundred and seventy thousand men, able to take up arms.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יִּתֵּ֥ן יוֹאָ֛ב אֶת מִסְפַּ֥ר מִפְקַד הָ/עָ֖ם אֶל דָּוִ֑יד וַ/יְהִ֣י כָֽל יִשְׂרָאֵ֡ל אֶ֣לֶף אֲלָפִים֩ וּ/מֵאָ֨ה אֶ֤לֶף אִישׁ֙ שֹׁ֣לֵֽף חֶ֔רֶב וִֽ/יהוּדָ֕ה אַרְבַּע֩ מֵא֨וֹת וְ/שִׁבְעִ֥ים אֶ֛לֶף אִ֖ישׁ שֹׁ֥לֵֽף חָֽרֶב
English Translation
And Joab gave the count of those registered to David, and all Israel was one thousand thousands and one hundred thousand men wielding sword, and Judah four hundred seventy thousand men wielding sword.
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Chapter 21 Context
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Now Satan, designing evil against Israel, put into David's mind the impulse to take the number of Is...
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And David said to Joab and the captains of the people, Now let all Israel, from Beer-sheba to Dan, b...
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And Joab said, May the Lord make his people a hundred times more in number than they are; but, my lo...
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But the king's word was stronger than Joab's. So Joab went out and went through all Israel and came...
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And Joab gave David the number of all the people; all the men of Israel, able to take up arms, were...
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But Levi and Benjamin were not numbered among them, for Joab was disgusted with the king's order.
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And God (Elohim) was not pleased with this thing; so he sent punishment on Israel.
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Then David said to God (Elohim), Great has been my sin in doing this; but now, be pleased to take aw...
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Then the word of the Lord came to Gad, David's seer, saying,
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Go and say to David, The Lord says, Three things are offered to you: say which of them you will have...
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So Gad came to David and said to him, The Lord says, Take whichever you will:
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Three years when there will not be enough food; or three months of war, when you will go in flight b...
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And David said to Gad, This is a hard decision for me to make: let me come into the hands of the Lor...
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14
So the Lord sent disease on Israel, causing the death of seventy thousand men.
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And God (Elohim) sent an angel to Jerusalem for its destruction: and when he was about to do so, the...
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And David, lifting up his eyes, saw the angel of the Lord there between earth and heaven, with an un...
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And David said to God (Elohim), Was it not I who gave the order for the people to be numbered? It is...
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Then the angel of the Lord gave orders to Gad to say to David that he was to go and put up an altar...
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And David went up, as Gad had said in the name of the Lord.
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And Ornan, turning back, saw the angel, and his four sons who were with him went to a secret place....
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And when David came, Ornan, looking, saw him, and came out from the grain-floor and went down on his...
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Then David said to Ornan, Give me the place where this grain-floor is, so that I may put up an altar...
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And Ornan said to David, Take it, and let my lord the king do what seems right to him. See, I give y...
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And King David said to Ornan, No; I will certainly give you the full price for it, because I will no...
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So David gave Ornan six hundred shekels of gold by weight for the place.
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And David put up an altar there to the Lord, offering burned offerings and peace-offerings with pray...
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Then the Lord gave orders to the angel, and he put back his sword into its cover.
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At that time, when David saw that the Lord had given him an answer on the grain-floor of Ornan the J...
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For the House of the Lord, which Moses had made in the waste land, and the altar of burned offerings...
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But David was not able to go before it to get directions from the Lord, so great was his fear of the...
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