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Text -- 1 Chronicles 21:11-30 (NET)
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21:11 Gad went to David and told him, “This is what the Lord says : ‘Pick one of these:
21:12 three years of famine , or three months being chased by your enemies and struck down by their swords , or three days being struck down by the Lord , during which a plague will invade the land and the Lord’s messenger will destroy throughout Israel’s territory .’ Now , decide what I should tell the one who sent me.”
21:13 David said to Gad , “I am very upset ! I prefer to be attacked by the Lord , for his mercy is very great ; I do not want to be attacked by men !”
21:14 So the Lord sent a plague through Israel , and 70,000 Israelite men died .
21:15 God sent an angel to ravage Jerusalem . As he was doing so, the Lord watched and relented from his judgment . He told the angel who was destroying , “That’s enough ! Stop now !” Now the Lord’s angel was standing near the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite .
21:16 David looked up and saw the Lord’s messenger standing between the earth and sky with his sword drawn and in his hand , stretched out over Jerusalem . David and the leaders , covered with sackcloth , threw themselves down with their faces to the ground.
21:17 David said to God , “Was I not the one who decided to number the army ? I am the one who sinned and committed this awful deed ! As for these sheep – what have they done ? O Lord my God , attack me and my family , but remove the plague from your people !”
21:18 So the Lord’s messenger told Gad to instruct David to go up and build an altar for the Lord on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite .
21:19 So David went up as Gad instructed him to do in the name of the Lord .
21:20 While Ornan was threshing wheat , he turned and saw the messenger , and he and his four sons hid themselves.
21:21 When David came to Ornan , Ornan looked and saw David ; he came out from the threshing floor and bowed to David with his face to the ground .
21:22 David said to Ornan , “Sell me the threshing floor so I can build on it an altar for the Lord – I’ll pay top price – so that the plague may be removed from the people .”
21:23 Ornan told David , “You can have it! My master , the king , may do what he wants . Look , I am giving you the oxen for burnt sacrifices , the threshing sledges for wood , and the wheat for an offering . I give it all to you.”
21:24 King David replied to Ornan , “No , I insist on buying it for top price . I will not offer to the Lord what belongs to you or offer a burnt sacrifice that cost me nothing .
21:25 So David bought the place from Ornan for 600 pieces of gold .
21:26 David built there an altar to the Lord and offered burnt sacrifices and peace offerings . He called out to the Lord , and the Lord responded by sending fire from the sky and consuming the burnt sacrifice on the altar .
21:27 The Lord ordered the messenger to put his sword back into its sheath .
21:28 At that time , when David saw that the Lord responded to him at the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite , he sacrificed there .
21:29 Now the Lord’s tabernacle (which Moses had made in the wilderness ) and the altar for burnt sacrifices were at that time at the worship center in Gibeon .
21:30 But David could not go before it to seek God’s will, for he was afraid of the sword of the Lord’s messenger .
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Temptation |
Gad |
David |
Araunah |
Ornan |
Miracles |
THRESHING-FLOOR |
Nation |
Angel of the Lord |
SACRIFICE, IN THE OLD TESTAMENT, 2 |
JEBUSITES |
Vision |
Tabernacle |
Angel |
Choice |
Temple |
DESTROYER |
Fire |
AGRICULTURE |
Heaven |
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NET Notes -> 1Ch 21:12; 1Ch 21:12; 1Ch 21:12; 1Ch 21:13; 1Ch 21:15; 1Ch 21:15; 1Ch 21:15; 1Ch 21:15; 1Ch 21:15; 1Ch 21:15; 1Ch 21:15; 1Ch 21:15; 1Ch 21:15; 1Ch 21:16; 1Ch 21:17; 1Ch 21:17; 1Ch 21:17; 1Ch 21:18; 1Ch 21:19; 1Ch 21:21; 1Ch 21:22; 1Ch 21:22; 1Ch 21:22; 1Ch 21:22; 1Ch 21:23; 1Ch 21:23; 1Ch 21:24; 1Ch 21:24; 1Ch 21:24; 1Ch 21:25; 1Ch 21:25; 1Ch 21:26; 1Ch 21:26; 1Ch 21:27; 1Ch 21:29
NET Notes: 1Ch 21:12 Heb “or three days of the sword of the Lord and plague in the land, and the messenger [or “angel”] of the Lord destroying in all the...
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NET Notes: 1Ch 21:13 Heb “There is great distress to me; let me fall into the hand of the Lord for his mercy is very great, but into the hand of men let me not fall....
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NET Notes: 1Ch 21:15 In the parallel text in 2 Sam 24:16 this individual is called אֲרַוְנָא (’aravna’, &...
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NET Notes: 1Ch 21:19 Heb “and David went up by the word of Gad which he spoke in the name of the Lord.”
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NET Notes: 1Ch 21:22 Following the imperative and first person prefixed verbal form with vav (ו) conjunctive, this third person prefixed verbal form with vav conjunc...
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NET Notes: 1Ch 21:25 Heb “six hundred shekels of gold.” This would have been about 15 lbs. (6.8 kg) of gold by weight.
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NET Notes: 1Ch 21:26 Heb “he”; the referent (the Lord) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
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