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Second Book of Samuel, Chapter 24

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2 Samuel 24 NWT - New World Translation2 Samuel 24 NWT - New World Translation

Chapter 24 of 2 Samuel—New World Translation (NWT)

  1. ¶ And again1 the anger of Jehovah came to be hot against Israel, when one[a] incited David[b] against them, saying: “Go, take a count2 of Israel and Judah.”
  2. So the king said to Joʹab3 the chief[c] of the military forces who was with him:[d] “Move about, please, through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan to Beʹer-sheʹba,4 and YOU men register the people,5 and I shall certainly know the number of the people.”6
  3. But Joʹab said to the king: “May Jehovah your God even add to the people a hundred times as many as they are while the very eyes of my lord the king are seeing it. But as for my lord the king, why has he found delight in this thing?”7
  4. ¶ Finally the king’s word prevailed8 upon Joʹab and the chiefs of the military forces. So Joʹab and the chiefs of the military forces went out from before the king to register9 the people Israel.
  5. Then they crossed the Jordan and took up camping at A·roʹer10 to the right of the city[e] that is in the middle of the torrent valley, toward the Gadʹites,11 and to Jaʹzer.12
  6. After that they came on to Gilʹe·ad13 and the land of Tahʹtim-hodʹshi[f] and continued on to Dan-jaʹan and went around to Siʹdon.14
  7. Then they came to the fortress of Tyre15 and all the cities of the Hiʹvites16 and of the Caʹnaan·ites and came to the terminating point in the Negʹeb17 of Judah at Beʹer-sheʹba.18
  8. Thus they went moving about through all the land and came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.
  9. Joʹab now gave the number of the registration19 of the people to the king; and Israel amounted to eight hundred thousand valiant men drawing sword, and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand men.20
  10. ¶ And David’s heart began to beat21 him after he had so numbered the people. Consequently David said to Jehovah: “I have sinned22 very much in what I have done. And now, Jehovah, let your servant’s error pass by,23 please; for I have acted very foolishly.”24
  11. When David proceeded to rise up in the morning, Jehovah’s word itself came to Gad25 the prophet, David’s visionary,26 saying:
  12. “Go,[g] and you must say to David, ‘This is what Jehovah has said: “Three things I am laying upon you.27 Choose for yourself one of them that I may do it to you.”’”28
  13. Accordingly Gad came in to David and told him and said to him:29 “Should there come to you seven[h] years of famine in your land,30 or three months of your fleeing before your adversaries,31 with them pursuing you, or the occurring of three days of pestilence[i] in your land?32 Now know and see what I shall reply to the One sending me.”
  14. So David said to Gad: “It is very distressing to me. Let us fall, please, into the hand of Jehovah,33 for many are his mercies;34 but into the hand of man[j] do not let me fall.”[k]35
  15. ¶ Then Jehovah gave a pestilence36 in Israel from the morning until the time appointed, so that out of the people from Dan to Beʹer-sheʹba37 seventy thousand persons died.38
  16. And the angel39 kept his hand thrust out toward Jerusalem to bring it to ruin; and Jehovah began to feel regret40 over the calamity, and so he said to the angel that was bringing ruin among the people: “It is enough! Now let your hand drop.” And Jehovah’s angel himself happened to be close by the threshing floor of A·rauʹnah41 the Jebʹu·site.42
  17. ¶ And David proceeded to say to Jehovah, when he saw the angel that was striking the people down, yes, he proceeded to say: “Here it is I that have sinned and it is I that have done wrong; but these sheep43—what have they done? Let your hand, please, come upon me44 and upon the house of my father.”
  18. ¶ Later Gad came in to David on that day and said to him: “Go up, set up for Jehovah an altar on the threshing floor of A·rauʹnah the Jebʹu·site.”45
  19. And David began to go up in accord with the word of Gad, according to what Jehovah had commanded.46
  20. When A·rauʹnah looked down and saw the king and his servants passing along toward him, A·rauʹnah at once went out and bowed47 down to the king with his face to the earth.48
  21. Then A·rauʹnah said: “Why has my lord the king come to his servant?” At that David said: “To buy49 from you the threshing floor for building an altar to Jehovah, that the scourge50 may be halted from upon the people.”
  22. But A·rauʹnah said to David: “Let my lord the king take it51 and offer up what is good in his eyes. See the cattle for the burnt offering and the threshing sledge and the implements of the cattle for the wood.52
  23. Everything A·rauʹnah, O king,[l] does give to the king.” And A·rauʹnah went on to say to the king: “May Jehovah your God show pleasure in you.”53
  24. ¶ However, the king said to A·rauʹnah: “No, but without fail I shall buy it from you for a price;54 and I shall not offer up to Jehovah my God burnt sacrifices without cost.”55 Accordingly David bought56 the threshing floor and the cattle for fifty silver shekels.[m]
  25. And David proceeded to build there an altar57 to Jehovah and offer up burnt sacrifices and communion sacrifices, and Jehovah began letting himself be entreated58 for the land, so that the scourge was halted from upon Israel.

FOOTNOTES

  1. ^ Or, “he.” See 1Ch 21:1.
  2. ^ Or, “when David was incited.”
  3. ^ “Chief of.” Heb., sar; LXX, “ruler”; Vg, “prince.”
  4. ^ “To Joab and to the chiefs of the military forces who were with him,” LXXL. See vs 4; 1Ch 21:2.
  5. ^ “Took up camping at Aroer to the right of the city,” M; LXXL, “began at Aroer and at the city”; Vg, “came to Aroer at the right of the city.”
  6. ^ “Land of Tahtim-hodshi,” M; LXXL, “land of the Hittites toward Kadesh.”
  7. ^ Lit., “There will be a going.” In Heb. this is a verb in the infinitive absolute, indefinite as to time and impersonal.
  8. ^ “Seven,” MSyVg; LXX and 1Ch 21:12, “three.”
  9. ^ Or, “(bubonic) plague.” Lat., pe·sti·lenʹti·a; LXX, “death (deadly plague).”
  10. ^ “Man.” Heb., ʼa·dhamʹ.
  11. ^ LXX adds: “And David made his choice of the deadly plague. (15) And it was the days of the wheat harvest.”
  12. ^ Or, “Everything Araunah as a king.”
  13. ^ To calculate value, see App 8A.

REFERENCES

  1. ^ 2Sa 21:1
  2. ^ 1Ch 21:1; 27:23
  3. ^ 2Sa 8:16; 20:23
  4. ^ Jg 20:1; 2Sa 3:10
  5. ^ 1Ch 21:2
  6. ^ 2Ch 32:25; Pr 18:12; Je 17:5
  7. ^ 1Ch 21:3
  8. ^ 1Ch 21:4; Ec 8:4
  9. ^ Nu 1:2
  10. ^ De 2:36; Jos 13:9
  11. ^ Nu 32:34
  12. ^ Nu 32:1, 35
  13. ^ Ge 31:21; Nu 32:40
  14. ^ Ge 10:15; 49:13; Jos 11:8
  15. ^ Jos 19:29
  16. ^ Jos 9:7; 11:19
  17. ^ Jos 15:1
  18. ^ Ge 21:31; Jos 15:28
  19. ^ 1Ch 21:5
  20. ^ Nu 2:32; 26:51; 1Ch 27:23
  21. ^ 1Sa 24:5; Ac 2:37; Ro 2:15; 2Co 7:10; 1Jo 3:20
  22. ^ 2Sa 12:13; 1Ch 21:8
  23. ^ Ps 130:3; Ho 14:2; 1Jo 1:9
  24. ^ 1Sa 13:13; Ps 107:17; Ec 10:1
  25. ^ 1Sa 22:5; 1Ch 21:9
  26. ^ 1Ch 29:29
  27. ^ 1Ch 21:10
  28. ^ Pr 3:12
  29. ^ 1Ch 21:11
  30. ^ Le 26:20; De 28:23; 2Sa 21:1; 1Ch 21:12
  31. ^ Le 26:17, 36; De 28:25
  32. ^ Le 26:16, 25; De 28:22
  33. ^ 1Ch 21:13; Heb 12:6
  34. ^ Ne 9:17; Ps 103:8; 119:156
  35. ^ Jg 6:6; 2Ch 28:5; Is 47:6
  36. ^ Nu 16:46; De 28:21; 1Ch 21:14; 27:24
  37. ^ 2Sa 24:2
  38. ^ De 32:4; Jb 34:12; La 3:22
  39. ^ 1Ch 21:15
  40. ^ Ps 78:38; Je 26:19; Jl 2:13
  41. ^ 2Ch 3:1
  42. ^ Ge 10:16; Jos 15:8; 2Sa 5:9
  43. ^ 1Ki 22:17; Ps 44:11; 95:7
  44. ^ Ge 44:33; 1Ch 21:17
  45. ^ 1Ch 21:18; 2Ch 3:1
  46. ^ 1Ch 21:19
  47. ^ Ru 2:10; 2Sa 9:8
  48. ^ 1Ch 21:21
  49. ^ 1Ch 21:22
  50. ^ Nu 16:47; 25:8; 2Sa 24:15
  51. ^ Ge 23:11
  52. ^ 1Sa 6:14; 1Ki 19:21; 1Ch 21:23
  53. ^ Ps 20:3
  54. ^ Ge 23:13
  55. ^ 1Ch 21:24
  56. ^ 1Ch 21:25
  57. ^ Ex 20:25; 1Ch 21:26; 22:1
  58. ^ 2Sa 21:14; 1Ch 21:27; 2Ch 33:13; Is 19:22

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Comments

  1. Kiamia DoelKiamia Doel
    Jan 9, 2025 23:00 GMT

    The NWT adds words to the text that are not in the greek Manuscripts to fit it's own doctrinal position for example

    Compare the wording of the NWT and the NKJV at Colossians 1:15-17

    NKJV says

    15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16 For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. 17 And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist.

    NWT says

    15 He is the image of the invisible God,the firstborn OF all creation;16 because by means of him all OTHER things were created in the heavens and on the earth, the things visible and the things invisible,whether they are thrones or lordships or governments or authorities. All OTHER things have been created through him and for him. 17 Also, he is before all OTHER things,and by means of him all OTHER things were made to exist,

    The word “other” is not in the Greek but they add it Why? So they can decieve their followers into thinking that Christ was created by the Father and that he then created other things, that is not what the Greek says.

    1. SmeSme
      Feb 27, 2025 11:17 GMT

      Truth is from God and those that follow him. As for lies? John8:44

      Kiamia, I noticed you used a modern version of kjv to make your point about the nwt.

      Why didn’t you use the original kjv of col1:15?

      Is it because it disproves your point? It proves the opposite of what you wrote?

      Here is kjv col1:15 ¶” Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn OF every creature:“

      Now I appeal to your Christian nature to correct your mistake as God is watching each of us, and let us bless the God of Jesus his father.

      Kjv 1Pe 1:3  Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ….

  2. YanekYanek
    Dec 24, 2024 22:18 GMT

    Joshua, Jehovah’s Witnesses have never denied the deity of the Messiah in his prehuman existence. While on Earth he was fully 100% human. I do not mean he was a mere human, he was not affected by Adam’s unfaithful behavior, he was sinless.

  3. 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

  4. 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. James LernerJames Lerner
      Jul 20, 2024 09:48 GMT

      The NWT is Satanic filth to its very core.

      The JW Cult is Satanic to its very core.

      Praise Yahweh I will never be a victim of JW brainwashing. If I burn in Hell for eternity or I am ultimately annihilated so be it

      May Yahweh's curse rest on the Watchtower Society and its Satanic leadership

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

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

  5. 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.”

  6. 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

    2. ChrisChris
      Jan 8, 2021 07:15 GMT

      Please site these intentional heresies. I am well versed in the watch tower outline and agree they are in many ways incorrect but i also bet i can point many out from EVERY established or main denomination. There is much to learn from them all as one who drinks milk?

      Judge not lest ye be judged, that is not to pass judgement on you either brother.

      I debate with scripture. I don't hold it to be true that Michael is Y'Shua HaMeshiach but I also firmly hold it to be true that our G-d and Heavenly Father are not the word encarnate and only begotten son.

      I love not seeing "lord" which i relate to baal. I feel the catholic church is a satanic establishment and I am aware a freemason started the hovies but there are evil in high places and our fight is also with principalities.

      What i'm saying is that in my darkest hours, those two were some of if not the only ones who would bring a Bible and eucharist and pray with me.

      We all fall short of the glory of G-d.

      Don't forget the NWT was recognized as the most accurate translation on Jeopardy.

      Lastly, this is different I noted than the NWT i have read and am very familiar with. Pull up the watchtower page and compare. I truly look forward to getting this one!

  7. julietjuliet
    Aug 17, 2022 09:36 GMT

    the sky is blue

  8. 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

  9. 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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