II Samuel 24:3
The Scripture
(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?
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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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
II Samuel 10:12I Chronicles 21:3I Chronicles 21:4Psalms 115:14Proverbs 14:28Isaiah 60:5
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