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II Samuel Chapter 24

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II Samuel

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In this chapter David confronts his son Absalom, who has rebelled and is now in exile, and he sends messengers to bring him back. The chapter also records the death of Absalom's wife, Absarath, and the death of Absalom's servant, and the mourning of the people. It shows the tragic consequences of rebellion and the cost of David's pursuit.

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(1) And again the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he moved David against them to say, Go, number Israel and Judah.
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II Samuel 21:1II Samuel 21:2II Samuel 21:3II Samuel 21:4II Samuel 21:5II Samuel 21:6II Samuel 21:7II Samuel 21:8II Samuel 21:9II Samuel 21:10II Samuel 21:11II Samuel 21:12

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Deuteronomy 32:21Revelation 13:18II Chronicles 25:10Isaiah 5:25

(2) For the king said to Joab the captain of the host, which was with him, Go now through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan even to Beersheba, and number ye the people, that I may know the number of the people.
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II Samuel 2:13II Samuel 8:16II Samuel 20:23II Samuel 23:37I Chronicles 21:2II Samuel 3:10II Samuel 17:11Judges 20:1Deuteronomy 8:13Deuteronomy 8:14II Chronicles 32:25II Chronicles 32:26

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I Chronicles 21:2II Samuel 24:4Revelation 13:18I Chronicles 27:24I Kings 2:32Leviticus 25:15

(3) And Joab said unto the king, Now the LORD thy God add unto the people, how many soever they be, an hundredfold, and that the eyes of my lord the king may see it: but why doth my lord the king delight in this thing?
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II Samuel 10:12I Chronicles 21:3I Chronicles 21:4Psalms 115:14Proverbs 14:28Isaiah 60:5

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I Chronicles 21:3Psalms 74:1I Samuel 1:8I Kings 2:28

(4) Notwithstanding the king's word prevailed against Joab, and against the captains of the host. And Joab and the captains of the host went out from the presence of the king, to number the people of Israel.
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I Chronicles 21:4Ecclesiastes 8:4Exodus 1:17Acts 5:29

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Deuteronomy 1:15Numbers 31:14Numbers 31:48II Samuel 3:23II Samuel 24:2I Chronicles 26:26

(5) And they passed over Jordan, and pitched in Aroer, on the right side of the city that lieth in the midst of the river of Gad, and toward Jazer:
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Deuteronomy 2:36Joshua 13:9Joshua 13:16I Samuel 30:28Isaiah 17:2Numbers 32:1Numbers 32:3Numbers 32:35Isaiah 16:8Isaiah 16:9

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Joshua 15:7Joshua 12:2II Samuel 15:23I Kings 7:25II Chronicles 4:4Ezekiel 48:10

(6) Then they came to Gilead, and to the land of Tahtimhodshi; and they came to Danjaan, and about to Zidon,
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Genesis 31:21Genesis 31:47Genesis 31:48Numbers 32:1Numbers 32:39Joshua 19:47Judges 18:29Genesis 10:15Joshua 11:8Joshua 19:28Judges 18:28

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Judges 11:29

(7) And came to the strong hold of Tyre, and to all the cities of the Hivites, and of the Canaanites: and they went out to the south of Judah, even to Beersheba.
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Joshua 19:29II Samuel 24:2Genesis 21:31Genesis 21:32Genesis 21:33

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(8) So when they had gone through all the land, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.
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II Chronicles 2:10II Kings 14:2II Kings 18:2II Chronicles 25:1II Chronicles 29:1I Kings 6:20

(9) And Joab gave up the sum of the number of the people unto the king: and there were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men that drew the sword; and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand men.
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I Chronicles 21:5I Chronicles 21:6I Chronicles 27:23I Chronicles 27:24

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I Chronicles 21:5Ezekiel 48:16Matthew 25:20Genesis 18:28Numbers 7:17Numbers 7:23

(10) And David's heart smote him after that he had numbered the people. And David said unto the LORD, I have sinned greatly in that I have done: and now, I beseech thee, O LORD, take away the iniquity of thy servant; for I have done very foolishly.
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I Samuel 24:5John 8:9I John 3:20I John 3:21II Samuel 12:13I Chronicles 21:8II Chronicles 32:26Job 33:27Job 33:28Psalms 32:5Proverbs 28:13Micah 7:8

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(11) For when David was up in the morning, the word of the LORD came unto the prophet Gad, David's seer, saying,
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I Samuel 22:5I Chronicles 2:19I Chronicles 29:29I Samuel 9:9

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(12) Go and say unto David, 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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I Chronicles 21:10I Chronicles 21:11II Samuel 12:9II Samuel 12:10II Samuel 12:14Leviticus 26:41Leviticus 26:43Job 5:17Job 5:18Proverbs 3:12Hebrews 12:6Hebrews 12:7

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(13) So Gad came to David, and told him, and said unto him, Shall seven years of famine come unto thee in thy land? or wilt thou flee three months before thine enemies, while they pursue thee? or that there be three days' pestilence in thy land? now advise, and see what answer I shall return to him that sent me.
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II Samuel 21:1Leviticus 26:20I Kings 17:1I Kings 17:2I Kings 17:3I Kings 17:4I Kings 17:5I Kings 17:6I Kings 17:7I Chronicles 21:12Ezekiel 14:13Ezekiel 14:21

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I Chronicles 21:12Song of Solomon 6:13Jeremiah 4:1Ezekiel 7:15II Kings 8:12Jeremiah 15:19

(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.
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I Samuel 13:6II Kings 6:15John 12:27Philippians 1:23Exodus 34:6Exodus 34:7I Chronicles 21:13Psalms 51:1Psalms 86:5Psalms 86:15Psalms 103:8Psalms 103:9

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I Chronicles 21:13Esther 6:13Isaiah 31:3Jeremiah 6:15Jeremiah 8:12Jeremiah 51:49

(15) So the LORD sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning even to the time appointed: and there died of the people from Dan even to Beersheba seventy thousand men.
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Numbers 16:46Numbers 16:47Numbers 16:48Numbers 16:49Numbers 25:9I Samuel 6:19I Chronicles 21:14I Chronicles 27:4Matthew 24:7Revelation 6:8Isaiah 37:36

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Joshua 19:47Ezekiel 24:18

(16) And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough: stay now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD was by the threshingplace of Araunah the Jebusite.
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Exodus 12:23II Kings 19:35I Chronicles 21:15I Chronicles 21:16II Chronicles 32:21Psalms 35:6Acts 12:23Genesis 6:6I Samuel 15:11Psalms 78:38Psalms 90:13Psalms 135:14

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I Chronicles 21:15Judges 6:21Judges 6:22Judges 13:16Judges 13:21Zechariah 2:3

(17) And David spake unto the LORD when he saw the angel that smote the people, and said, Lo, I have sinned, and I have done wickedly: but these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, be against me, and against my father's house.
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I Chronicles 21:16I Chronicles 21:17II Samuel 24:10Job 7:20Job 42:6Psalms 51:2Psalms 51:3Psalms 51:4Psalms 51:5Isaiah 6:5I Kings 22:17Psalms 44:11

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Exodus 22:1I Chronicles 21:17John 10:12Nehemiah 1:6II Samuel 24:16I Chronicles 21:15

(18) And Gad came that day to David, and said unto him, Go up, rear an altar unto the LORD in the threshingfloor of Araunah the Jebusite.
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II Samuel 24:11I Chronicles 21:18I Chronicles 21:19I Chronicles 21:20I Chronicles 21:21I Chronicles 21:22I Chronicles 21:23I Chronicles 21:24I Chronicles 21:25I Chronicles 21:26I Chronicles 21:27I Chronicles 21:28

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(19) And David, according to the saying of Gad, went up as the LORD commanded.
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Genesis 6:22I Chronicles 21:19II Chronicles 20:20II Chronicles 36:16Nehemiah 9:26Hebrews 11:8

(20) And Araunah looked, and saw the king and his servants coming on toward him: and Araunah went out, and bowed himself before the king on his face upon the ground.
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II Samuel 9:8Genesis 18:2Ruth 2:10I Chronicles 21:20I Chronicles 21:21

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(21) And Araunah said, Wherefore is my lord the king come to his servant? And David said, To buy the threshingfloor of thee, to build an altar unto the LORD, that the plague may be stayed from the people.
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II Samuel 24:3II Samuel 24:18Genesis 23:8Genesis 23:9Genesis 23:10Genesis 23:11Genesis 23:12Genesis 23:13Genesis 23:14Genesis 23:15Genesis 23:16I Chronicles 21:22

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I Chronicles 21:22Leviticus 13:3II Samuel 24:24Leviticus 13:51Leviticus 13:55

(22) And Araunah said unto David, Let my lord the king take and offer up what seemeth good unto him: behold, here be oxen for burnt sacrifice, and threshing instruments and other instruments of the oxen for wood.
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Genesis 23:11I Chronicles 21:22I Samuel 6:14I Kings 19:21

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(23) All these things did Araunah, as a king, give unto the king. And Araunah said unto the king, The LORD thy God accept thee.
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Psalms 45:16Isaiah 32:8Job 42:8Job 42:9Psalms 20:3Psalms 20:4Isaiah 60:7Ezekiel 20:40Ezekiel 20:41Hosea 8:13Romans 15:30Romans 15:31

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II Samuel 24:20

(24) And the king said unto Araunah, Nay; but I will surely buy it of thee at a price: neither will I offer burnt offerings unto the LORD my God of that which doth cost me nothing. So David bought the threshingfloor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.
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Genesis 23:13I Chronicles 21:24Malachi 1:12Malachi 1:13Malachi 1:14Romans 12:17I Chronicles 21:25I Chronicles 22:1

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I Kings 8:64I Chronicles 21:24Exodus 30:23Joshua 7:21Numbers 29:39Jeremiah 44:25

(25) And David built there an altar unto the LORD, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. So the LORD was intreated for the land, and the plague was stayed from Israel.
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Genesis 8:20Genesis 22:9I Samuel 7:9I Samuel 7:17II Samuel 24:14II Samuel 21:14I Chronicles 21:26I Chronicles 21:27Lamentations 3:32Lamentations 3:33

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