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I Chronicles Chapter 21

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In chapter 21 the people of Israel gather to hear the judgment of the prophet Haggai, who warns that the people have neglected the temple and the house of the Lord. The chapter emphasizes the importance of worship and faithfulness to God, showing that neglect leads to loss and that restoration begins with proper sacrifice. It also records the restoration of the temple and the people's return to God's service.

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(1) And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.
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II Samuel 24:1I Kings 22:20I Kings 22:21I Kings 22:22Job 1:6Job 1:7Job 1:8Job 1:9Job 1:10Job 1:11Job 1:12Job 2:1

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Revelation 13:18

(2) And David said to Joab and to the rulers of the people, Go, number Israel from Beersheba even to Dan; and bring the number of them to me, that I may know it.
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II Samuel 24:2II Samuel 24:3II Samuel 24:4Judges 20:1I Samuel 3:20II Samuel 3:10II Samuel 17:11II Samuel 24:15I Kings 4:25II Chronicles 30:5I Chronicles 27:23I Chronicles 27:24

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II Samuel 24:2Revelation 13:18I Chronicles 27:24Leviticus 25:15Numbers 3:15Numbers 3:40

(3) And Joab answered, The LORD make his people an hundred times so many more as they be: but, my lord the king, are they not all my lord's servants? why then doth my lord require this thing? why will he be a cause of trespass to Israel?
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I Chronicles 19:13Psalms 115:14Proverbs 14:28Isaiah 26:15Isaiah 48:19Genesis 20:9Exodus 32:21Numbers 32:9Numbers 32:10I Samuel 2:24I Kings 14:16

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I Samuel 1:8Psalms 74:1Psalms 10:1II Samuel 24:3Genesis 4:6Judges 5:28

(4) Nevertheless the king's word prevailed against Joab. Wherefore Joab departed, and went throughout all Israel, and came to Jerusalem.
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Ecclesiastes 8:4Exodus 1:17Daniel 3:18Acts 5:29II Samuel 24:3II Samuel 24:4II Samuel 24:5II Samuel 24:6II Samuel 24:7II Samuel 24:8

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II Samuel 24:4I Kings 2:28Esther 8:8II Samuel 2:14II Samuel 3:23II Samuel 3:29

(5) And Joab gave the sum of the number of the people unto David. And all they of Israel were a thousand thousand and an hundred thousand men that drew sword: and Judah was four hundred threescore and ten thousand men that drew sword.
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I Chronicles 27:23II Samuel 24:9

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II Samuel 24:9Ezekiel 48:16Revelation 13:18Exodus 25:26Exodus 37:13Numbers 26:43

(6) But Levi and Benjamin counted he not among them: for the king's word was abominable to Joab.
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Numbers 1:47Numbers 1:48Numbers 1:49II Samuel 3:27II Samuel 11:15II Samuel 11:16II Samuel 11:17II Samuel 11:18II Samuel 11:19II Samuel 11:20II Samuel 11:21II Samuel 20:9

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Esther 8:8II Samuel 24:4I Chronicles 21:4Esther 3:3Esther 3:12I Kings 2:28

(7) And God was displeased with this thing; therefore he smote Israel.
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II Samuel 11:27I Kings 15:5I Chronicles 21:14Joshua 7:1Joshua 7:5Joshua 7:13Joshua 22:16Joshua 22:17Joshua 22:18Joshua 22:19Joshua 22:20Joshua 22:21

(8) And David said unto God, I have sinned greatly, because I have done this thing: but now, I beseech thee, do away the iniquity of thy servant; for I have done very foolishly.
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II Samuel 12:13II Samuel 24:10Psalms 25:11Psalms 32:5Jeremiah 3:13Luke 15:18Luke 15:19I John 1:9Psalms 51:1Psalms 51:2Psalms 51:3Hosea 14:2

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II Samuel 24:10Jeremiah 33:8Numbers 12:11

(9) And the LORD spake unto Gad, David's seer, saying,
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I Chronicles 29:29I Samuel 9:9II Samuel 24:11

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II Samuel 24:11I Chronicles 29:29

(10) Go and tell David, saying, Thus saith the LORD, I offer thee three things: choose thee one of them, that I may do it unto thee.
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Joshua 24:15Proverbs 1:29Proverbs 1:30Proverbs 1:31Numbers 20:12II Samuel 12:10II Samuel 12:11II Samuel 12:12I Kings 13:21I Kings 13:22Proverbs 3:12Revelation 3:19

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Malachi 1:8

(11) So Gad came to David, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Choose thee
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Proverbs 19:20

(12) Either three years' famine; or three months to be destroyed before thy foes, while that the sword of thine enemies overtaketh thee; or else three days the sword of the LORD, even the pestilence, in the land, and the angel of the LORD destroying throughout all the coasts of Israel. Now therefore advise thyself what word I shall bring again to him that sent me.
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Leviticus 26:26Leviticus 26:27Leviticus 26:28Leviticus 26:29II Samuel 21:1II Samuel 24:13I Kings 17:1II Kings 8:1Lamentations 4:9Luke 4:25Leviticus 26:17Leviticus 26:36

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I Chronicles 21:15II Samuel 24:13II Samuel 24:16Ezekiel 7:15Jeremiah 21:7Luke 4:25

(13) And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let me fall now into the hand of the LORD; for very great are his mercies: but let me not fall into the hand of man.
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II Kings 6:15II Kings 7:4Esther 4:11Esther 4:16John 12:27Philippians 1:23Hebrews 10:31Exodus 34:6Exodus 34:7Psalms 5:7Psalms 51:1Psalms 51:2

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II Samuel 24:14Esther 6:13Isaiah 31:3Jeremiah 6:15Jeremiah 8:12Jeremiah 51:49

(14) So the LORD sent pestilence upon Israel: and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men.
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Numbers 16:46Numbers 16:47Numbers 16:48Numbers 16:49II Samuel 24:15Exodus 12:30Numbers 25:9I Samuel 6:19II Kings 19:35

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Judges 5:27

(15) And God sent an angel unto Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he was destroying, the LORD beheld, and he repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed, It is enough, stay now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD stood by the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.
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II Samuel 24:16Jeremiah 7:12Jeremiah 26:9Jeremiah 26:18Matthew 23:37Matthew 23:38Genesis 6:6Exodus 32:14Judges 2:18Judges 10:16Psalms 78:38Jeremiah 18:7

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II Samuel 24:16I Chronicles 21:18Judges 6:21Judges 6:22Judges 13:16Judges 13:21

(16) And David lifted up his eyes, and saw the angel of the LORD stand between the earth and the heaven, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders of Israel, who were clothed in sackcloth, fell upon their faces.
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Genesis 3:24Exodus 14:19Exodus 14:20Numbers 22:31Joshua 5:13Joshua 5:14II Kings 6:17I Kings 21:27II Kings 19:1Psalms 35:13Psalms 35:14Jonah 3:6

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II Samuel 24:16Revelation 15:6Numbers 22:31Judges 5:27Judges 13:20Revelation 5:8

(17) And David said unto God, Is it not I that commanded the people to be numbered? even I it is that have sinned and done evil indeed; but as for these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, O LORD my God, be on me, and on my father's house; but not on thy people, that they should be plagued.
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I Chronicles 21:8II Samuel 24:17Psalms 51:4Ezekiel 16:63I Kings 22:17Psalms 44:11II Samuel 24:1Genesis 44:33Exodus 32:32Exodus 32:33John 10:11John 10:12

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Exodus 22:1II Samuel 24:17John 10:12Nehemiah 1:6

(18) Then the angel of the LORD commanded Gad to say to David, that David should go up, and set up an altar unto the LORD in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.
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I Chronicles 21:11Acts 8:26Acts 8:27Acts 8:28Acts 8:29Acts 8:30Acts 8:31Acts 8:32Acts 8:33Acts 8:34Acts 8:35Acts 8:36

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I Chronicles 21:15II Samuel 24:16II Samuel 24:18I Chronicles 21:28II Chronicles 3:1I Chronicles 21:20

(19) And David went up at the saying of Gad, which he spake in the name of the LORD.
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II Kings 5:10II Kings 5:11II Kings 5:12II Kings 5:13II Kings 5:14John 2:5Acts 9:6

(20) And Ornan turned back, and saw the angel; and his four sons with him hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat.
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Judges 6:11

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I Chronicles 21:15Ezekiel 48:16II Kings 1:5I Chronicles 21:23I Chronicles 21:21Exodus 25:26

(21) And as David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David, and went out of the threshingfloor, and bowed himself to David with his face to the ground.
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I Samuel 25:23II Samuel 24:18II Samuel 24:19II Samuel 24:20

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I Chronicles 21:20Genesis 18:2II Samuel 24:20Judges 5:27I Chronicles 21:15I Chronicles 21:18

(22) Then David said to Ornan, Grant me the place of this threshingfloor, that I may build an altar therein unto the LORD: thou shalt grant it me for the full price: that the plague may be stayed from the people.
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I Kings 21:2II Samuel 24:21Numbers 16:48Numbers 25:8

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II Samuel 24:21Leviticus 13:3Revelation 10:6II Chronicles 3:1I Chronicles 21:24I Chronicles 21:21

(23) And Ornan said unto David, Take it to thee, and let my lord the king do that which is good in his eyes: lo, I give thee the oxen also for burnt offerings, and the threshing instruments for wood, and the wheat for the meat offering; I give it all.
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Genesis 23:4Genesis 23:5Genesis 23:6II Samuel 24:22II Samuel 24:23Jeremiah 32:8I Samuel 6:14I Kings 19:21Isaiah 28:27Isaiah 28:28

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I Kings 8:64Numbers 29:39Ezekiel 45:17II Samuel 24:22II Chronicles 7:7II Kings 16:15

(24) And king David said to Ornan, Nay; but I will verily buy it for the full price: for I will not take that which is thine for the LORD, nor offer burnt offerings without cost.
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Genesis 14:23Genesis 23:13Deuteronomy 16:16Deuteronomy 16:17Malachi 1:12Malachi 1:13Malachi 1:14Romans 12:17

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II Samuel 24:24I Kings 8:64Numbers 29:39II Chronicles 7:7Ezra 7:17Ezekiel 45:17

(25) So David gave to Ornan for the place six hundred shekels of gold by weight.
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II Samuel 24:24II Samuel 24:25

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I Kings 10:14II Chronicles 9:13Genesis 24:22Exodus 30:23Numbers 7:13Numbers 7:19

(26) And David built there an altar unto the LORD, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and called upon the LORD; and he answered him from heaven by fire upon the altar of burnt offering.
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Exodus 20:24Exodus 20:25Exodus 24:4Exodus 24:5I Samuel 7:8I Samuel 7:9Psalms 51:15Psalms 91:15Psalms 99:9Proverbs 15:8Isaiah 65:24Jeremiah 33:3

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I Kings 8:64Numbers 29:39II Chronicles 7:7Ezekiel 45:17Judges 21:4II Samuel 24:25

(27) And the LORD commanded the angel; and he put up his sword again into the sheath thereof.
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I Chronicles 21:15I Chronicles 21:16II Samuel 24:16Psalms 103:20Hebrews 1:14I Chronicles 21:12I Chronicles 21:20Jeremiah 47:6Ezekiel 21:30Matthew 26:52John 18:11

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II Samuel 24:16I Chronicles 21:15

(28) At that time when David saw that the LORD had answered him in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite, then he sacrificed there.
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I Chronicles 21:15I Chronicles 21:18II Chronicles 3:1I Chronicles 21:21

(29) For the tabernacle of the LORD, which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of the burnt offering, were at that season in the high place at Gibeon.
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Exodus 40:1Exodus 40:2Exodus 40:3Exodus 40:4Exodus 40:5Exodus 40:6Exodus 40:7Exodus 40:8Exodus 40:9Exodus 40:10Exodus 40:11Exodus 40:12

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II Chronicles 1:3Exodus 33:7Numbers 1:50Numbers 3:25Numbers 4:25Numbers 9:15

(30) But David could not go before it to enquire of God: for he was afraid because of the sword of the angel of the LORD.
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I Chronicles 21:16I Chronicles 13:12Deuteronomy 10:12II Samuel 6:9Job 13:21Job 21:6Job 23:15Psalms 90:11Psalms 119:120Jeremiah 5:22Jeremiah 10:7Hebrews 12:28

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Jeremiah 42:11Ezekiel 2:6II Samuel 24:16I Chronicles 21:15

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