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Second Book of Samuel, Chapter 24

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2 Samuel 24 NASB - New American Standard Bible2 Samuel 24 NASB - New American Standard Bible

Chapter 24 of 2 Samuel—New American Standard Bible (NASB)

  1. 1Now 2again the anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and it incited David against them to say, “3Go, number Israel and Judah.”
  2. The king said to Joab the commander of the army who was with him, “Go about now through all the tribes of Israel, 4from Dan to Beersheba, and [a]register the people, that I may know the number of the people.”
  3. But Joab said to the king, “5Now may the LORD your God add to the people a hundred times as many as they are, while the eyes of my lord the king still see; but why does my lord the king delight in this thing?”
  4. Nevertheless, the king’s word prevailed against Joab and against the commanders of the army. So Joab and the commanders of the army went out from the presence of the king to [b]register the people of Israel.
  5. They crossed the Jordan and camped in 6Aroer, on the right side of the city that is in the middle of the valley of Gad and toward 7Jazer.
  6. Then they came to Gilead and to [c]the land of Tahtim-hodshi, and they came to Dan-jaan and around to 8Sidon,
  7. and came to the 9fortress of Tyre and to all the cities of the 10Hivites and of the Canaanites, and they went out to the south of Judah, to 11Beersheba.
  8. So when they had gone about through the whole land, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.
  9. And Joab gave 12the number of the [d]registration of the people to the king; and there were in Israel 13eight hundred thousand valiant men who drew the sword, and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand men.
  10. ¶ Now 14David’s heart [e]troubled him after he had numbered the people. So David said to the LORD, “15I have sinned greatly in what I have done. But now, O LORD, please [f]take away the iniquity of Your servant, for 16I have acted very foolishly.”
  11. When David arose in the morning, the word of the LORD came to 17the prophet Gad, David’s 18seer, saying,
  12. “Go and speak to David, ‘Thus the LORD says, “I am offering you three things; choose for yourself one of them, which I will do to you.”’”
  13. So Gad came to David and told him, and said to him, “Shall 19seven years of famine come to you in your land? Or will you flee three months before your foes while they pursue you? Or shall there be three days’ pestilence in your land? Now consider and see what answer I shall return to Him who sent me.”
  14. Then David said to Gad, “I am in great distress. Let us now fall into the hand of the LORD 20for His mercies are great, but do not let me fall into the hand of man.”
  15. ¶ So 21the LORD [g]sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning until the appointed time, and seventy thousand men of the people 22from Dan to Beersheba died.
  16. 23When the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, 24the LORD relented from the calamity and said to the angel who destroyed the people, “It is enough! Now relax your hand!” And the angel of the LORD was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.
  17. Then David spoke to the LORD when he saw the angel who was striking down the people, and said, “Behold, 25it is I who have sinned, and it is I who have done wrong; but 26these sheep, what have they done? Please let Your hand be against me and against my father’s house.”
  18. ¶ So Gad came to David that day and said to him, “27Go up, erect an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of [h]Araunah the Jebusite.”
  19. David went up according to the word of Gad, just as the LORD had commanded.
  20. Araunah looked down and saw the king and his servants crossing over toward him; and Araunah went out and bowed his face to the ground before the king.
  21. Then Araunah said, “Why has my lord the king come to his servant?” And David said, “To buy the threshing floor from you, in order to build an altar to the LORD, 28that the plague may be held back from the people.”
  22. Araunah said to David, “Let my lord the king take and offer up what is good in his sight. Look, 29the oxen for the burnt offering, the threshing sledges and the yokes of the oxen for the wood.
  23. Everything, O king, Araunah gives to the king.” And Araunah said to the king, “May the LORD your God 30accept you.”
  24. However, the king said to Araunah, “No, but I will surely buy it from you for a price, for 31I will not offer burnt offerings to the LORD my God [i]which cost me nothing.” So 32David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.
  25. David built there an altar to the LORD and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. 33Thus the LORD was moved by prayer for the land, and the plague was held back from Israel.

FOOTNOTES

  1. ^ Lit muster
  2. ^ Lit muster
  3. ^ Or Kadesh in the land of the Hittite
  4. ^ Lit muster
  5. ^ Lit smote
  6. ^ Lit cause to pass away
  7. ^ Lit gave
  8. ^ In 2 Chr 3:1, Ornan
  9. ^ Lit gratuitously

REFERENCES

  1. ^ 1Ch 21:1
  2. ^ 2Sa 21:1, 2
  3. ^ 1Ch 27:23, 24
  4. ^ Jg 20:1; 2Sa 3:10
  5. ^ De 1:11
  6. ^ De 2:36; Jos 13:9, 16
  7. ^ Nu 21:32; 32:35
  8. ^ Jos 19:28; Jg 1:31
  9. ^ Jos 19:29
  10. ^ Jos 11:3; Jg 3:3
  11. ^ Ge 21:22-33
  12. ^ Nu 1:44-46
  13. ^ 1Ch 21:5
  14. ^ 1Sa 24:5
  15. ^ 2Sa 12:13
  16. ^ 1Sa 13:13; 2Ch 16:9
  17. ^ 1Sa 22:5; 1Ch 29:29
  18. ^ 1Sa 9:9
  19. ^ 1Ch 21:12; Eze 14:21
  20. ^ Ps 51:1; 130:4, 7
  21. ^ 1Ch 21:14; 27:24
  22. ^ 2Sa 24:2
  23. ^ Ex 12:23; 2Ki 19:35; Ac 12:23
  24. ^ Ex 32:14; 1Sa 15:11
  25. ^ 2Sa 24:10
  26. ^ 2Sa 7:8; Ps 74:1
  27. ^ 1Ch 21:18
  28. ^ Nu 16:44-50
  29. ^ 1Sa 6:14; 1Ki 19:21
  30. ^ Eze 20:40, 41
  31. ^ Ml 1:13, 14
  32. ^ 1Ch 21:24, 25
  33. ^ 2Sa 21:14

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Comments

  1. David yakubuDavid yakubu
    Oct 29, 2022 08:05 GMT

    When i do read some comments and seeing that its the same people that are supposed to be called believers but are talking ill of other denominations, it hurts. Let us all remember that We should judge not

    1. jonas smithjonas smith
      Apr 23, 2023 02:57 GMT

      The bible tells us to test the spirits. Satan disguises himself as angel of light. So yes some denomination are not teaching the truth. You are responsible for judging which ones are not. You have to judge the truth at all times. this is what the bible teaches

  2. THTH
    Apr 7, 2021 00:20 GMT

    The NWT is a very good translation. Dr. Jason David BeDuhn PhD attests to that in his book Truth in Translation. drive.google.com/...5p16melHzg8/view

    1. jim mcleodjim mcleod
      Aug 22, 2021 06:16 GMT

      NWT is a false translation that takes away from the deity of Jesus !

  3. SlightlyChaoticSlightlyChaotic
    Jan 30, 2021 16:33 GMT

    Thank you for taking the time to provide this service. I like seeing the NASB on your web page in the same format as I read on paper. On other sites, the text area is smaller, and so I have to keep scrolling down to read and sometimes I lose the context. So I really appreciate the format.

    As far as the NWT, you are certainly free to do whatever you think best with your own web pages. I'd suggest that you make a note anytime you have a translation that is associated with only one denomination or church, for example:
    New World Translation (Jehovah's Witness version).

    In Jesus' parable of the wheat and the tares. the main idea seems to be that you can't easily distinguish between God's people and not-God's people on this earth, so our Lord's response is to wait until they are shown to be the kind of people they are inside. But the NWT seems like false teaching to me. So I think the warning passages from Jesus' apostles are more applicable, as in 2 Peter 3:15-16, when he talks about Paul's writings:
    "There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures."
    And we also have the positive exhortations, as in 2 Timothy 2:15:
    "Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth."

    1. BroderickBroderick
      Jan 31, 2021 00:57 GMT

      Your suggestion regarding the denominational flagging is duly noted. But I can’t help but wonder, wouldn’t a Catholic also want “Protestant versions” marked as well?

      As for the parable, I’m pretty sure the slaves were convinced in their own minds that they could tell the tares from the wheat. After all, aren’t they the ones who identified the problem in the first place? But the master obviously thought otherwise.

      Furthermore, even at the time when Jesus himself was walking the earth, not everybody who claimed fellowship actually followed him causing John to inquire at Mark 9:39, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in Your name, and we tried to prevent him because he was not following us.” But Jesus said, “Do not hinder him . . . for he who is not against us is for us.”

  4. Joshua HarderJoshua Harder
    Dec 11, 2020 17:48 GMT

    Hello, question.. why have you included the NWT with other legitimate bible translations? Or why have you not atleast included a warning to readers? Don't you fear that someone could be influenced by the Watchtower's intentional heresies? Thank you.

    1. KevinKevin
      Jul 11, 2021 17:45 GMT

      en.m.wikipedia.org/..._Holy_Scriptures

      See the section critical review

  5. julietjuliet
    Aug 17, 2022 09:36 GMT

    the sky is blue

  6. mercymercy
    Aug 12, 2022 21:23 GMT

    i am Mercy, the sky is blue what else do you need

    1. mercymercy
      Aug 12, 2022 21:25 GMT

      i am so sorry, it was a big mistake

  7. God is able to do all thingsGod is able to do all things
    May 17, 2021 17:59 GMT

    Jesus how much love calling yo name

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