WEBVTT 00:01.920 --> 00:06.900 And again the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he moved David 00:06.900 --> 00:10.640 against them to say, Go, number Israel and Judah. 00:11.560 --> 00:15.800 For the king said to Joab the captain of the host, which was with him, Go now 00:15.800 --> 00:20.400 through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan even to Beersheba, and number ye 00:20.400 --> 00:23.220 the people, that I may know the number of the people. 00:23.420 --> 00:28.720 And Joab said unto the king, Now the Lord thy God add unto the people, How many 00:28.720 --> 00:34.440 soever they be, and hundredfold, and that the eyes of my lord the king may 00:34.440 --> 00:35.140 see it. 00:35.640 --> 00:38.740 But why doth my lord the king delight in this thing? 00:39.060 --> 00:43.320 Notwithstanding, the king's word prevailed against Joab and against the captains of 00:43.320 --> 00:43.780 the host. 00:44.260 --> 00:48.140 And Joab and the captains of the host went out from the presence of the king to 00:48.140 --> 00:49.420 number the people of Israel. 00:50.460 --> 00:54.680 And they passed over Jordan and pitched in a rower on the right side of the city that 00:54.680 --> 00:57.760 lieth in the midst of the river of Gad, and toward Jazar. 00:58.820 --> 01:03.780 Then they came to Gilead and to the land of Tatim-ha-Jai, and they came to Danjaon 01:03.780 --> 01:08.800 and about to Zidon, and came to the stronghold of Tyre, and to all the cities 01:08.800 --> 01:13.100 of the Hivites and of the Canaanites, and they went out to the south of Judah, 01:13.360 --> 01:14.380 even to Beersheba. 01:15.280 --> 01:18.800 So when they had gone through all the land, they came to Jerusalem at the end of 01:18.800 --> 01:20.400 nine months and twenty days. 01:20.860 --> 01:24.200 And Joab gave up the sum of the number of the people unto the king. 01:24.200 --> 01:29.180 And there were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men that drew the sword, 01:29.500 --> 01:32.220 and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand men. 01:33.160 --> 01:36.400 And David's heart smote him after that he had numbered the people. 01:36.940 --> 01:41.180 And David said unto the Lord, I have sinned greatly in that I have done, 01:41.780 --> 01:46.780 and now I beseech thee, O Lord, take away the iniquity of thy servant, 01:47.560 --> 01:49.680 for I have done very foolishly. 01:49.900 --> 01:53.740 For when David was up in the morning, the word of the Lord came unto the prophet 01:53.740 --> 01:59.500 Gad, David's seer, saying, Go and say unto David, Thus saith the Lord, I offer thee 01:59.500 --> 02:00.360 three things. 02:00.660 --> 02:03.320 Choose thee one of them, that I may do it unto thee. 02:03.980 --> 02:09.640 So Gad came to David and told him and said unto him, Shall seven years of famine come 02:09.640 --> 02:10.860 unto thee in thy land? 02:11.480 --> 02:15.980 Or wilt thou flee three months before thine enemies while they pursue thee? 02:16.420 --> 02:19.660 Or that there be three days' pestilence in thy land? 02:19.660 --> 02:26.160 Now advise, and see what answer I shall return to him that sent me. 02:26.600 --> 02:29.420 And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait. 02:29.980 --> 02:34.320 Let us fall now into the hand of the Lord, for his mercies are great. 02:35.040 --> 02:37.520 And let me not fall into the hand of man. 02:37.940 --> 02:42.340 So the Lord sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning even to the time 02:42.340 --> 02:42.740 appointed. 02:43.200 --> 02:48.440 And there died of the people from Dan even to Beersheba seventy thousand men. 02:49.000 --> 02:53.920 And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the Lord 02:53.920 --> 02:57.960 repented him of the evil and said to the angel that destroyed the people, 02:58.120 --> 02:58.960 It is enough. 02:59.320 --> 03:00.660 Stay now thine hand. 03:01.140 --> 03:04.900 And the angel of the Lord was by the threshing place of Aaron at the Jebusite. 03:05.500 --> 03:09.660 And David spake unto the Lord when he saw the angel that smote the people and said, 03:09.960 --> 03:13.340 Lo, I have sinned, and I have done wickedly. 03:14.320 --> 03:17.320 But these sheep, what have they done? 03:18.380 --> 03:22.480 Let thine hand, I pray thee, be against me and against my father's house. 03:23.240 --> 03:28.480 And Gad came that day to David and said unto him, Go up, rear an altar unto the 03:28.480 --> 03:31.020 Lord in the threshing floor of Aaron at the Jebusite. 03:31.300 --> 03:35.240 And David, according to the saying of Gad, went up as the Lord commanded. 03:35.940 --> 03:39.820 And Aaron looked, and saw the king and his servants coming on toward him. 03:40.200 --> 03:44.100 And Aaron went out, and bowed himself before the king on his face upon the 03:44.100 --> 03:44.420 ground. 03:44.420 --> 03:48.740 And Aaron said, Wherefore has my lord the king come to his servant? 03:49.080 --> 03:54.320 And David said, To buy the threshing floor of thee, to build an altar unto the Lord, 03:55.180 --> 03:57.180 that the plague may be stayed from the people. 03:57.600 --> 04:02.720 And Aaron said unto David, Let my lord the king take and offer up what seemeth good 04:02.720 --> 04:03.240 unto him. 04:03.820 --> 04:08.860 Behold, here be oxen for burnt sacrifice, and threshing instruments, and other 04:08.860 --> 04:10.480 instruments of the oxen for wood. 04:11.500 --> 04:15.820 All these things did Aaron as a king give unto the king. 04:15.960 --> 04:19.440 And Aaron said unto the king, The Lord thy God accept thee. 04:19.820 --> 04:24.780 And the king said unto Aaron, Nay, but I will surely buy it of thee at a 04:24.780 --> 04:25.200 price. 04:26.180 --> 04:30.840 Neither will I offer burnt offerings unto the Lord my God, of that which doth cost 04:30.840 --> 04:31.400 me nothing. 04:31.860 --> 04:36.320 So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver. 04:36.320 --> 04:42.000 And David built there an altar unto the Lord, and offered burnt offerings and 04:42.000 --> 04:42.700 peace offerings. 04:43.520 --> 04:48.180 So the Lord was entreated for the land, and the plague was stayed from Israel.