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Yoav doesn’t want to do the census
21 Then a trouble-maker went against Yisrael by encouraging David to take a census of Yisrael, 2 So David ordered Yoav and the other officials, “Go and count Yisrael from Be’er-Sheva in the south and as far north as Dan, then come and tell me so that I’ll know how many warriors I have.”
3 “My master, the king, may Yahweh multiply his people one hundred times over. Aren’t they all your servants?” Yoav diplomaticaly queried, “So why does my master want to do this? Why should he bring judgement on Yisrael?” 4 But the king insisted, so Yoav was forced to go and survey the entire country. Then he returned to Yerushalem 5 and reported the numbers to David. Yisrael had 1.1 million sword-wielding men, and Yehudah had 470 thousand. 6 However, Yoav had intentionally not counted the tribes of Levi and Benyamin, because he was horrified by the king’s command.
Punishment for the census
7 God was displeased by what David had ordered, and he punished Yisrael, 8 and David said to God, “I’ve disobeyed you badly by doing that. Please forgive your servant for his disobedience, because I’ve been very stupid.”
9 Then Yahweh told David’s prophet Gad, 10 “Go and tell David that Yahweh says this: I’ll give you three options—choose one of them and that’s what I’ll do to you.”
11 So Gad went to David and told his, “Yahweh says that you must choose one of these punishments: 12 either three years of famine, or three months of being overcome by your enemies’ armies, or three days of Yahweh’s ‘sword’ of pestilence in the land and the Yahweh’s messenger bringing destruction across all of Yisrael’s territory. So now, tell me what answer I should take back to the one who sent me?”
13 “Oh, that’s very distressing,” David replied to Gad, “but please don’t let me fall into the hands of my enemies. Yahweh is very merciful, so please let him be the one to punish me directly.”
14 So Yahweh sent a disease throughout Yisrael and seventy thousand Israeli men died. 15 Then God sent a messenger to destroy Yerushalem, and while the disease was still spreading Yahweh looked down and relented about the tragedy, and he told to the destroying messenger, “Enough! Now release your hand.” Now Yahweh’s messenger happened to be standing at the threshing floor of Ornan the Yevusite.
16 As David looked up, he saw Yahweh’s messenger standing between the earth and the heavens, holding his sword stretched out over Yerushalem. Then David and the elders who were all dressed in sackcloth, fell to their knees and bowed their faces to the ground. 17 Then David asked God, “Wasn’t it me myself who said to count the people? It’s me who disobeyed and clearly did what was wrong, but these sheep, what have they done? Yahweh my God, please direct your punishment against me and my extended family, but don’t continue this plague on your people.”
18 Then Yahweh’s messenger told Gad to tell David that he should build an altar to Yahweh at the threshing floor of Ornan the Yevusite. 19 So David went up to that place when he heard Gad’s message that was delivered in Yahweh’s name. 20 Meanwhile, Ornan was threshing wheat, and he turned and saw Yahweh’s messenger and he and his four sons who were with him quickly hid behind something. 21 When David arrived there, Ornan saw him and left the threshing floor and knelt in front of David and bowed his face to the ground. 22 Then David asked Ornan, “Give me this place with its threshing floor, and I’ll build an altar to Yahweh on it. Sell it to me at the full price, so the plague against the people will be stopped.”
23 “My master the king, take anything that you want,” Ornan replied. “Listen, I’ll donate the cattle for the burnt offerings and the threshing sledges for firewood, and the wheat for the offering—all at no charge.”
24 “No, I’ll most definitely pay the full price,” King David responded. “I couldn’t offer a burnt offering to Yahweh if it hadn’t cost me anything.” 25 So David paid Ornan six hundred gold pieces for his place, 26 and he built an altar to Yahweh there and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings on it. He called to Yahweh, and Yahweh answered him with fire from the heavens on that altar of the burnt offering.
27 Then Yahweh spoke to his messenger who then returned his sword to his sheath.
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