OEB 1CH Chapter 21

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21 Then Satan stood up against Israel and moved David to number Israel. 2 So David said to Joab and the commanders of the army, Go, number Israel, from Beer-sheba to Dan, to Dan; and bring me word, that I may know their number. 3 Then Joab said, Jehovah make his people a hundred times as many as they are; but, my lord the king, are they not all my lord’s servants? Why does my lord desire this thing? Why should he be a cause of guilt to Israel? 4 But the king’s word prevailed against Joab. Therefore Joab departed and went throughout all Israel and came to Jerusalem. 5 And Joab gave to David the number of the people who had been mustered. And all they of Israel were one million, one hundred thousand fighting men; and Judah was four hundred and seventy thousand fighting men. 6 But he did not include Levi and Benjamin in the muster, for the king’s command was abominable to Joab. 7 And God was displeased with his thing so that he smote Israel. 8 And David said to God, I have sinned greatly, in that I have done this thing, But now, pardon, I bessech thee, the

2 So David said to Joab and to the commanders of the people, Go, number Israel from Beersheba and muster the people that I may know the number of the people. 3 Then Joab answered the king, May Jehovah your God add to the people, a hundred times as many as they are, while the eyes of my lord the king are looking on! But why has my lord the king a desire for such a thing? 4 But the king’s command prevailed against Joab and the commanders of the army. And Joab and the commanders of the army went out from the presence of the king to muster the people of Israel. 5 And they crossed the Jordan, and began from Aroer and from the city that is in the midst of the torrent valley, towards Gad and on to Jazer. 6 Then they came to Gilead and to the land of the Hittites, towards Kadesh; and they came to Dan, and from Dan they went around to Sidon, 7 and came to the fortress of Tyre and all the cities of the Hivites, and of the Canaanites; and they went out to the South Country of Judah at Beersheba. 8 So when they had gone about through all the land, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days. 9 And Joab gave to the king the number of the people who had been mustered, and there were in Israel eight hundred thousand able-bodied, fighting men; and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand. 10 Then David’s conscience smote him after he had numbered the people. And David said to Jehovah, I have sinned greatly in what I have done. But now, O Jehovah, pardon, 25 And over the king’s treasures was Azmaveth the son of Adiel, and over the treasures in the fields, in the cities, and in the villages, and in the castles was Jonathan the son of Uzziah, 26 and over those who did the work of the field to cultivate the ground was Ezri the son Chelub, 27 and over the vineyards was Shimei the Ramathite, and over the increase of the vineyards for the stores of wine was Zabdi the Shipmite, 28 and over the olive and the sycamore trees in the Shephelah was Baalhanan the Gederite, and over the stores of oil was Joash, 29 and over the herds that fed in Sharon was Shitrai the Sharonite, and over the herds that were in the valleys was Shaphat the son of Adlai, 30 and over the camels was Obil the Ishmaelite, and over the asses was Jehdeiah the Meronothite, and over the flocks was Jaziz the Hagrite. 31 All these were in charge of the property which King David possessed.

32 Also Jonathan, David’s kinsman, was a counsellor, a man of insight and learning, and Jehiel the son of Hachmoni was with the king’s sons, 33 and Ahitophel was the king’s counsellor, and Hushai the Archite was the king’s friend; 34 and after Ahitophel was Jehoiada, the son of Benaiah, and Abiathar; and the commander of the king’s army was Joab.

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