1 Chronicles 21 (NET)

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1 Chronicles 21:1¹An adversary opposed Israel, inciting David to count how many warriors Israel had.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Sam 24:1-25 Zech 3:1 1 Kgs 22:20-22 Job 2:1 Job 2:4-6 Rev 12:10 Acts 5:3 Heb 10:24 Job 1:6-12 John 13:2

1 Chronicles 21:2²David told Joab and the leaders of the army, “Go, count the number of warriors from Beer Sheba to Dan. Then bring back a report to me so I may know how many we have.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Chr 27:23-24 1 Kgs 4:25 1 Sam 3:20 2 Chr 30:5 2 Cor 12:7 2 Sam 17:11 2 Sam 24:15 2 Sam 24:2-4 2 Sam 3:10 Deut 8:13-17

1 Chronicles 21:3³Joab replied, “May the Lord make his army a hundred times larger! My master, O king, do not all of them serve my master? Why does my master want to do this? Why bring judgment on Israel?”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 1:11 1 Chr 19:13 1 Kgs 14:16 1 Sam 2:24 Exod 32:21 Gen 20:9 Isa 26:15 Isa 48:19 Num 32:9-10 Prov 14:28

1 Chronicles 21:4⁴But the king’s edict stood, despite Joab’s objections. So Joab left and traveled throughout Israel before returning to Jerusalem.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Sam 24:3-8 Acts 5:29 Dan 3:18 Eccl 8:4 Exod 1:17

1 Chronicles 21:5⁵Joab reported to David the number of warriors. In all Israel there were 1,100,000 sword-wielding soldiers; Judah alone had 470,000 sword-wielding soldiers.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Sam 24:9 1 Chr 27:23

1 Chronicles 21:6⁶Now Joab did not number Levi and Benjamin, for the king’s edict disgusted him.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Chr 27:24 Num 1:47-49 2 Sam 11:15-21 2 Sam 20:9-10 2 Sam 3:27

1 Chronicles 21:7⁷God was also offended by it, so he attacked Israel.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Chr 21:14 1 Kgs 15:5 2 Sam 11:27 2 Sam 21:1 2 Sam 21:14 2 Sam 24:1 Josh 22:16-26 Josh 7:1 Josh 7:13 Josh 7:5

1 Chronicles 21:8⁸David said to God, “I have sinned greatly by doing this! Now, please remove the guilt of your servant, for I have acted very foolishly.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Sam 12:13 1 John 1:9 1 Sam 13:13 1 Sam 26:21 2 Chr 10:9 2 Sam 13:13 2 Sam 24:10 Gen 34:7 Hos 14:2 Jer 3:13

1 Chronicles 21:9⁹The Lord told Gad, David’s prophet,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Sam 9:9 2 Sam 24:11 1 Chr 29:29

1 Chronicles 21:10¹⁰“Go, tell David, ‘This is what the Lord says: “I am offering you three forms of judgment from which to choose. Pick one of them.”’”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Kgs 13:21-22 2 Sam 12:10-12 Josh 24:15 Num 20:12 Prov 1:29-31 Prov 3:12 Rev 3:19

1 Chronicles 21:11¹¹Gad went to David and told him, “This is what the Lord says: ‘Pick one of these:Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Prov 19:20

1 Chronicles 21:12¹²three 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 angel of the Lord will destroy throughout Israel’s territory.’ Now, decide what I should tell the one who sent me.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Chr 21:15-16 1 Kgs 17:1 2 Kgs 19:35 2 Kgs 8:1 2 Sam 21:1 2 Sam 24:13-14 Acts 12:23 Deut 28:15 Deut 28:22 Deut 28:25

1 Chronicles 21:13¹³David 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!”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 130:7 Phil 1:23 Heb 10:31 Isa 55:7 John 12:27 2 Chr 28:9 2 Kgs 6:15 2 Kgs 7:4 Esth 4:11 Esth 4:16

1 Chronicles 21:14¹⁴So the Lord sent a plague through Israel, and 70,000 Israelite men died.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Chr 27:24 1 Sam 6:19 2 Kgs 19:35 2 Sam 24:15 Exod 12:30 Num 16:46-49 Num 25:9

1 Chronicles 21:15¹⁵God 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 angel of the Lord was standing near the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 6:6 Exod 32:14 Jer 26:18 Mark 14:41 Matt 23:37-38 1 Kgs 19:4 2 Chr 3:1 2 Sam 24:16 2 Sam 24:18 Exod 9:28

1 Chronicles 21:16¹⁶David looked up and saw the angel of the Lord 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.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Num 14:5 1 Kgs 21:27 2 Kgs 19:1 2 Kgs 6:17 Exod 14:19-20 Gen 3:24 Jonah 3:6-8 Josh 5:13-14 Num 16:22 Num 22:31

1 Chronicles 21:17¹⁷David 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!”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ezek 16:63 1 Chr 21:8 1 John 3:16 1 Kgs 22:17 2 Sam 12:10 2 Sam 24:1 2 Sam 24:17 2 Sam 7:8 Exod 20:5 Exod 32:32-33

1 Chronicles 21:18¹⁸So the angel of the Lord told Gad to instruct David to go up and build an altar for the Lord on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Chr 3:1 2 Sam 24:18 1 Chr 21:11 1 Chr 21:15 Acts 8:26-40

1 Chronicles 21:19¹⁹So David went up as Gad instructed him to do in the name of the Lord.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Kgs 5:10-14 Acts 9:6 John 2:5

1 Chronicles 21:20²⁰While Ornan was threshing wheat, he turned and saw the messenger, and he and his four sons hid themselves.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Judg 6:11

1 Chronicles 21:21²¹When 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.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Sam 25:23 2 Sam 24:18-20

1 Chronicles 21:22²²David 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.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Kgs 21:2 2 Sam 24:21 Num 16:48 Num 25:8

1 Chronicles 21:23²³Ornan 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.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Sam 24:22-23 1 Sam 6:14 Gen 23:4-6 1 Kgs 19:21 Isa 28:27-28 Jer 32:8

1 Chronicles 21:24²⁴King 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.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 16:16-17 Gen 14:23 Gen 23:13 Mal 1:12-14

1 Chronicles 21:25²⁵So David bought the place from Ornan for 600 pieces of gold.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Sam 24:24-25

1 Chronicles 21:26²⁶David 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.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Lev 9:24 Judg 6:21 1 Kgs 18:38 Prov 15:8 1 Kgs 18:24 1 Sam 7:8-9 2 Chr 3:1 2 Chr 7:1 Exod 20:24-25 Exod 24:4-5

1 Chronicles 21:27²⁷The Lord ordered the messenger to put his sword back into its sheath.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Chr 21:15-16 Ezek 21:30 Heb 1:14 Jer 47:6 John 18:11 Matt 26:52 Ps 103:20 1 Chr 21:12 1 Chr 21:20 2 Sam 24:16

1 Chronicles 21:28²⁸At that time, when David saw that the Lord responded to him at the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, he sacrificed there.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

1 Chronicles 21:29²⁹Now 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.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Chr 16:39 2 Chr 1:13 2 Chr 1:3 1 Kgs 3:4-15 Exod 40:1-38

1 Chronicles 21:30³⁰But David could not go before it to seek God’s will, for he was afraid of the sword of the angel of the Lord.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Heb 12:28-29 Rev 1:17 Rev 15:4 1 Chr 13:12 1 Chr 21:16 2 Sam 6:9 Deut 10:12 Jer 10:7 Jer 5:22 Job 13:21

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