Bible Cross References
began to number
1 Chronicles 21:1-17
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And the devil stood up against Israel, and moved David to number Israel.
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And King David said to Joab and to the captains of the forces, Go, number Israel from Beersheba even to Dan, and bring me [the account], and I shall know their number.
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And Joab said, May the Lord add to His people a hundredfold as many as they [are now], and [le]t the eyes of my lord the king see [it.] All [are] the servants of my lord. Why does my lord seek this thing? [Do it not], lest it become a sin to Israel.
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Nevertheless the king's word prevailed against Joab, and Joab went out and passed through all Israel, and came to Jerusalem.
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And Joab gave the number of the mustering of the people to David. And all Israel was one million one hundred thousand men that drew the sword. And the sons of Judah [were] four hundred and seventy thousand men that drew the sword.
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But he numbered not Levi and Benjamin among them; for the word of the king was painful to Joab.
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And [there was] evil in the sight of the Lord respecting this thing; and He struck Israel.
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And David said to God, I have sinned exceedingly, in that I have done this thing; and now, I pray, remove the sin of Your servant; for I have been exceedingly foolish.
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And the Lord spoke to Gad the seer, saying,
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Go and speak to David, saying, Thus says the Lord: I bring three things upon you: choose one of them for yourself, and I will do it to you.
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And Gad came to David, and said to him, thus says the Lord, Choose for yourself,
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either three years of famine, or that you should flee three months from the face of your enemies, and the sword of your enemies [shall be employed] to destroy you, or that the sword of the Lord and pestilence [should be] three days in the land, and the angel of the Lord [shall be] destroying in all the inheritance of Israel. And now consider what I shall answer to Him that sent the message.
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And David said to Gad, They are very hard for me, even [all] the three: let me fall now into the hands of the Lord, for His mercies [are] very abundant, and let me not fall by any means into the hands of man.
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So the Lord brought pestilence upon Israel, and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men.
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And God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it. And as he was destroying, the Lord saw, and relented of the disaster, and said to the angel that was destroying, Let it suffice; withhold your hand. And the angel of the Lord stood by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
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And David lifted up his eyes, and saw the angel of the Lord, standing between earth and heaven, and his sword was drawn in his hand, stretched out over Jerusalem. And David and the elders clothed in sackcloth, fell upon their faces.
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And David said to God, [Was it] not I [that] gave orders to number the people? And I am the guilty one; I have greatly sinned; but these sheep, what have they done? O Lord God, let Your hand be upon me, and upon my father's house, and not on Your people for destruction, O Lord!
2 Samuel 24:1-15
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And the Lord caused His anger to burn forth again in Israel, and [Satan] stirred up David against them, saying, Go, number Israel and Judah.
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And the king said to Joab commander of the army, who was with him, Go now through all the tribes of Israel and Judah, from Dan even to Beersheba, and number the people, and I will know the number of the people.
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And Joab said to the king, Now may the Lord add to the people a hundredfold as many as they are, and [may] the eyes of my lord the king see it: but why does my lord the king desire this thing?
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Nevertheless the word of the king prevailed against Joab and the captains of the army. Therefore Joab and the captains of the army went out before the king to number the people of Israel.
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And they went over the Jordan, and encamped in Aroer, on the right of the city which is in the midst of the valley of Gad and Jazer.
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And they came to Gilead, and into the land of Tahtim Hodshi, which is Adasai, and they came to Danidan and Udan, and compassed Sidon.
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And they came to Mapsar of Tyre, and to all the cities of the Hivite and the Canaanite; and they came by the South of Judah to Beersheba.
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And they compassed the whole land; and they arrived at Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.
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And Joab gave in the number of the census of the people to the king. And Israel consisted of eight hundred thousand men of might that drew the sword; and the men of Judah [were] five hundred thousand fighting men.
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And the heart of David convicted him after he had numbered the people; and David said to the Lord, I have sinned grievously, O Lord, [in] what I have now done: remove the iniquity of Your servant, I pray, for I have been exceedingly foolish.
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And David rose early in the morning, and the word of the Lord came to the prophet Gad, the seer, saying, Go, and speak to David, saying,
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Thus says the Lord: I [shall] bring [one of] three things upon you: now choose one of them, and I will do [it] to you.
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And Gad went in to David and told him, and said to him, Choose [one of these things] to befall you, whether there shall come upon you [for] three years famine in your land; or that you should flee three months before your enemies, and they should pursue you; or that there should be [for] three days mortality in your land. Now then decide, and see what answer I shall return to Him that sent me.
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And David said to Gad, On every side I am much straitened: let me fall now into the hands of the Lord, for His compassions [are] very many; and let me not fall into the hands of man.
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So David chose for himself the mortality: and [they were] the days of wheat harvest; and the Lord sent a pestilence upon Israel from morning till noon, and the plague began among the people; and there died of the people from Dan even to Beersheba seventy thousand men.