Archive THE BIBLE - Verse by Verse (2 Samuel Chapter 1 to 24)

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2 Samuel 24:15 (NLT)

15 So the LORD sent a plague upon Israel that morning, and it lasted for three days. A total of 70,000 people died throughout the nation, from Dan in the north to Beersheba in the south.
 
2 Samuel 24:16 (NLT)

16 But as the angel was preparing to destroy Jerusalem, the LORD relented and said to the death angel, “Stop! That is enough!” At that moment the angel of the LORD was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.
 
2 Samuel 24:17 (NLT)

17 When David saw the angel, he said to the LORD, “I am the one who has sinned and done wrong! But these people are as innocent as sheep—what have they done? Let your anger fall against me and my family.”
 
2 Samuel 24:18 (NLT)
That day Gad came to David and said to him, "Go up and build an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite."
 
2 Samuel 24:20 (NLT)
When Araunah saw the King and his men coming towards him he came and bowed before the king with his face to the ground.
 
2 Samuel 24:21 (NLT)
"Why have you come my Lord the
King?" Araunah asked.
David replied "I have come to buy your threshing floor and build an altar to the LORD there, so that he will stop the plague."
 
2 Samuel 24:22 (NLT)

22 “Take it, my lord the king, and use it as you wish,” Araunah said to David. “Here are oxen for the burnt offering, and you can use the threshing boards and ox yokes for wood to build a fire on the altar.
 
2 Samuel 24:24 (NLT)

24 But the king replied to Araunah, “No, I insist on buying it, for I will not present burnt offerings to the LORD my God that have cost me nothing.” So David paid him fifty pieces of silver for the threshing floor and the oxen.
 
2 Samuel 24:25 (NLT) - 25 David built an altar there to the LORD and sacrificed burnt offerings and peace offerings. And the LORD answered his prayer for the land, and the plague on Israel was stopped.
 
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