II Samuel 24:14
The Scripture
(14) And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let us fall now into the hand of the LORD; for his mercies are great: and let me not fall into the hand of man.
Chapter overview (whole chapter)
David sinfully ordered a census of Israel and Judah, and as punishment the LORD sent a plague that killed seventy thousand men before David interceded. David then purchased Araunah's threshing floor, built an altar there, and offered sacrifices to stop the plague.
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