David asked God, &#8220;Should I march up against the Philistines? Will you hand them over to me?&#8221; The <sc>Lordsc> said to him, &#8220;March up! I will hand them over to you!&#8221;

<p class="poetry">saying, &#8220;To you I will give the land of Canaanp> <p class="poetry">as the portion of your inheritance.&#8221;p>

Sheshan gave his daughter to his servant Jarha as a wife; she bore him Attai.p>

<p class="bodytext">The rest of their fellow Levites<n id="1" /> were assigned to perform the remaining tasks at God&#8217;s sanctuary.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">They were allotted Hebron in the territory of Judah, as well as its surrounding pasturelands.

(But the city&#8217;s land and nearby towns were allotted to Caleb son of Jephunneh.)

<p class="bodytext">So the Israelites gave to the Levites these cities and their pasturelands.

<p class="bodytext">So David became famous<n id="1" /> in all the lands; the <sc>Lordsc> caused all the nations to fear him.<n id="2" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">That day David first gave to Asaph and his colleagues this song of thanks to the <sc>Lordsc>:p>

He put his brother Abishai in charge of the rest of the army and they were deployed against the Ammonites.

So the <sc>Lordsc> sent a plague through Israel, and 70,000 Israelite men died.p>

So David bought the place from Ornan for 600 pieces of gold.<n id="1" />

All who possessed precious<n id="1" /> stones donated them to the treasury of the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s temple, which was under the supervision of Jehiel the Gershonite.

David said to Ornan, &#8220;Sell me the threshing floor<n id="1" /> so I can build<n id="2" /> on it an altar for the <sc>Lordsc> &#8211; I&#8217;ll pay top price<n id="3" /> &#8211; so that the plague may be removed<n id="4" /> from the people.&#8221;

Ornan told David, &#8220;You can have it!<n id="1" /> My master, the king, may do what he wants.<n id="2" /> 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.&#8221;

They received divine help in fighting them, and the Hagrites and all their allies were handed over to them. They cried out to God during the battle; he responded to their prayers because they trusted in him.<n id="1" />

They were allotted as cities<n id="1" /> of refuge Shechem and its pasturelands (in the hill country of Ephraim), Gezer and its pasturelands,

He appointed some of the Levites to serve before the ark of the <sc>Lordsc>, to offer prayers, songs of thanks, and hymns to the <sc>Lordsc> God of Israel.

You made Israel your very own nation for all time.<n id="1" /> You, O <sc>Lordsc>, became their God.

Only may the <sc>Lordsc> give you insight and understanding when he places you in charge of Israel, so you may obey<n id="1" /> the law of the <sc>Lordsc> your God.