WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:01.400 Chapter 21 00:15.480 --> 00:18.660 And Joab answered, 00:30.940 --> 00:34.960 Why will he be a cause of trespass to Israel? 00:35.320 --> 00:38.200 Nevertheless, the king's word prevailed against Joab. 00:38.960 --> 00:42.940 Wherefore Joab departed, and went throughout all Israel, and came to 00:42.940 --> 00:43.420 Jerusalem. 00:45.080 --> 00:48.280 And Joab gave the sum of the number of the people unto David. 00:48.900 --> 00:53.420 And all they of Israel were a thousand thousand and an hundred thousand men that 00:53.420 --> 00:54.020 drew sword. 00:54.680 --> 00:58.840 And Judah was four hundred threescore and ten thousand men that drew sword. 00:58.840 --> 01:03.560 But Levi and Benjamin counted he not among them. 01:04.200 --> 01:06.800 For the king's word was abominable to Joab. 01:07.640 --> 01:09.760 And God was displeased with this thing. 01:10.560 --> 01:12.000 Therefore he smote Israel. 01:13.080 --> 01:17.700 And David said unto God, I have sinned greatly, because I have done this thing. 01:18.480 --> 01:23.560 But now I beseech thee, do away the iniquity of thy servant, for I have done 01:23.560 --> 01:24.660 very foolishly. 01:24.660 --> 01:31.020 And the Lord spake unto Gad, David's seer, saying, Go and tell David, saying, 01:31.340 --> 01:34.540 Thus saith the Lord, I offer thee three things. 01:35.100 --> 01:38.200 Choose thee one of them, that I may do it unto thee. 01:38.480 --> 01:44.580 So Gad came to David, and said unto him, Thus saith the Lord, Choose thee either 01:44.580 --> 01:50.660 three years' famine, or three months to be destroyed before thy foes, while that the 01:50.660 --> 01:56.360 sword of thine enemies overtaketh thee, or else three days, the sword of the Lord, 01:56.620 --> 02:01.380 even the pestilence in the land, and the angel of the Lord destroying 02:01.380 --> 02:03.940 throughout all the coasts of Israel. 02:04.940 --> 02:10.580 Now therefore advise thyself what word I shall bring again to him that sent me. 02:10.880 --> 02:13.760 And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait. 02:14.300 --> 02:18.400 Let me fall now into the hand of the Lord, for very great are his mercies. 02:18.880 --> 02:21.360 But let me not fall into the hand of man. 02:21.360 --> 02:26.920 So the Lord sent pestilence upon Israel, and there fell of Israel seventy thousand 02:26.920 --> 02:27.320 men. 02:28.460 --> 02:31.240 And God sent an angel unto Jerusalem to destroy it. 02:31.920 --> 02:34.180 And as he was destroying, the Lord beheld. 02:34.780 --> 02:38.400 And he repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed, 02:38.720 --> 02:39.580 It is enough. 02:40.180 --> 02:41.520 Stay now thine hand. 02:41.980 --> 02:45.440 And the angel of the Lord stood by the threshing floor of Ornan at Jebusite. 02:46.100 --> 02:50.820 And David lifted up his eyes and saw the angel of the Lord stand between the earth 02:50.820 --> 02:55.560 and the heaven, having a drawn sword in his hand, stretched out over Jerusalem. 02:56.980 --> 03:00.700 Then David and the elders of Israel, who were clothed in sackcloth, 03:01.120 --> 03:02.320 fell upon their faces. 03:03.460 --> 03:07.220 And David said unto God, Is it not I that commanded the people to be numbered? 03:08.260 --> 03:11.100 Even I it is that have sinned and done evil indeed. 03:11.100 --> 03:14.720 But as for these sheep, what have they done? 03:15.960 --> 03:21.100 Let thine hand, I pray thee, O Lord my God, be on me and on my father's house, 03:21.660 --> 03:24.740 but not on thy people, that they should be plagued. 03:25.020 --> 03:29.640 Then the angel of the Lord commanded Gad to say to David that David should go up 03:29.640 --> 03:33.960 and set up an altar unto the Lord in the threshing floor of Ornan at Jebusite. 03:35.360 --> 03:39.320 And David went up with the saying of Gad, which he spake in the name of the Lord. 03:39.940 --> 03:45.640 And Ornan turned back and saw the angel, and his four sons with him hid themselves. 03:47.360 --> 03:51.960 Now Ornan was threshing wheat, and as David came to Ornan, Ornan looked 03:51.960 --> 03:56.040 and saw David, and went out of the threshing floor, and bowed himself to 03:56.040 --> 03:57.780 David with his face to the ground. 03:59.460 --> 04:03.080 Then David said to Ornan, Grant me the place of this threshing floor, 04:03.620 --> 04:06.120 that I may build an altar therein unto the Lord. 04:06.860 --> 04:10.900 There shall grant it me for the full price, that the plague may be stayed from 04:10.900 --> 04:11.300 the people. 04:11.740 --> 04:16.300 And Ornan said unto David, Take it to thee, and let my lord the king do that 04:16.300 --> 04:17.500 which is good in his eyes. 04:18.020 --> 04:22.340 Lo, I give thee the oxen also for burnt offerings, and the threshing instruments 04:22.340 --> 04:24.680 for wood, and the wheat for the meat offering. 04:25.080 --> 04:26.700 I give it all. 04:27.140 --> 04:31.540 And king David said to Ornan, Nay, but I will verily buy it for the full 04:31.540 --> 04:32.020 price. 04:32.020 --> 04:36.560 For I will not take that which is thine for the Lord, nor offer burnt offerings 04:36.560 --> 04:37.440 without cost. 04:37.760 --> 04:42.240 So David gave to Ornan for the place six hundred shekels of gold by weight. 04:43.200 --> 04:47.480 And David built there an altar unto the Lord, and offered burnt offerings and 04:47.480 --> 04:49.800 peace offerings, and called upon the Lord. 04:50.780 --> 04:54.360 And he answered him from heaven by fire upon the altar of burnt offering. 04:55.080 --> 04:59.820 And the Lord commanded the angel, and he put up his sword again into the 04:59.820 --> 05:00.680 sheath thereof. 05:02.240 --> 05:06.900 At that time, when David saw that the Lord had answered him in the threshing floor of 05:06.900 --> 05:09.740 Ornan the Jebusite, then he sacrificed there. 05:10.760 --> 05:13.780 For the tabernacle of the Lord, which Moses made in the wilderness, 05:14.300 --> 05:18.180 and the altar of the burnt offering, were at that season in the high place at 05:18.180 --> 05:18.500 Gibeon. 05:19.680 --> 05:24.860 But David could not go before it to inquire of God, for he was afraid because 05:24.860 --> 05:26.620 of the sword of the angel of the Lord.