Introduction
David is tempted by Satan to take the numbers of the people of Israel and Judah, 1 Chronicles 21:1 , 1 Chronicles 21:2 . Joab remonstrates, but the king is determined, and Joab pleads in vain, 1 Chronicles 21:3 , 1 Chronicles 21:4 . He returns, and delivers in the number to the king, but reckons not Levi and Benjamin, 1 Chronicles 21:5 . The Lord is displeased, and sends Gad to offer David his choice of three great national calamities; famine, war, or pestilence, 1 Chronicles 21:6-12 . David submits himself to God, and a pestilence is sent, which destroys seventy thousand, 1 Chronicles 21:13 , 1 Chronicles 21:14 . At David's intercession the destroying angel is restrained at the threshing-floor of Ornan, 1 Chronicles 21:15-17 . He buys the piece of ground, builds an altar to the Lord and offers sacrifices, and the plague is stayed, 1 Chronicles 21:18-30 .
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