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David: The Warrior King - Bible Verse List
A Novel of King David
David in 1 Chronicles 21
(1 Chronicles 21:1) And Satan stood up against Israel and provoked David to take
a census of Israel.
(1 Chronicles 21:2) And David said to Joab and to the rulers of the people, Go
number Israel from Beer-sheba to Dan. And bring the number of them to me so that
I may know.
(1 Chronicles 21:3) And Joab answered, May Jehovah add to His people a hundred
times, but my lord the king, are they not all my lord's servants? Why then does
my lord require this thing? Why will he be a cause of trespass to Israel?
(1 Chronicles 21:4) But the king's word prevailed against Joab. And Joab
departed and went up and down all Israel, and came again to Jerusalem.
(1 Chronicles 21:5) And Joab gave the sum of the census of the people to David.
And in all Israel there were one million and a hundred thousand men who drew
sword. And in Judah were four hundred and seventy thousand men who drew sword.
(1 Chronicles 21:6) But Levi and Benjamin he did not count among them; for the
king's word was evil to Joab.
(1 Chronicles 21:7) And it was evil in the eyes of God as to this thing. And He
struck Israel.
(1 Chronicles 21:8) And David said to God, I have sinned greatly because I have
done this thing. But now, I beseech You, remove the iniquity of Your servant for
I have done very foolishly.
(1 Chronicles 21:9) And Jehovah spoke to Gad, David's seer, saying,
(1 Chronicles 21:10) Go and speak to David, saying, So says Jehovah: I offer you
three things. Choose one of them so that I may do it to you.
(1 Chronicles 21:11) And Gad came to David and said to him, So says Jehovah,
Choose for yourself:
(1 Chronicles 21:12) either three years of famine, or three months to be swept
away before your foes, while the sword of your enemies overtake you, or else
three days of the sword of Jehovah, even the plague in the land, and the angel
of Jehovah destroying throughout all the border of Israel. And now say what word
I shall bring again to Him who sent me.
(1 Chronicles 21:13) And David said to Gad, I am in great distress. Let me fall
now into the hand of Jehovah, for His mercies are very great. But do not let me
fall into the hand of man.
(1 Chronicles 21:14) And Jehovah sent a plague on Israel. And there fell seventy
thousand men of Israel.
(1 Chronicles 21:15) And God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it. And as he
was destroying, Jehovah looked. And He repented of the evil and said to the
angel who destroyed, Enough! Stay your hand now! And the angel of Jehovah stood
by the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
(1 Chronicles 21:16) And David lifted up his eyes and saw the angel of Jehovah
standing between the earth and the heavens, and his sword drawn in his hand,
stretched out over Jerusalem. And David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth,
fell on their faces.
(1 Chronicles 21:17) And David said to God, Did not I command to number the
people? I am the one who has sinned and done evil indeed. But these sheep, what
have they done? I pray You, let Your hand be on me, O Jehovah my God, and on my
father's house, but not on Your people, that they should be plagued.
(1 Chronicles 21:18) And the angel of Jehovah commanded Gad to say to David that
David should go up and set up an altar to Jehovah in the threshing-floor of
Ornan the Jebusite.
(1 Chronicles 21:19) And David went up at the word of Gad which he spoke in the
name of Jehovah.
(1 Chronicles 21:20) And Ornan turned back and saw the angel. And his four sons
with him hid themselves. And Ornan was threshing wheat.
(1 Chronicles 21:21) And David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David. And he
went out of the threshing-floor and bowed to David with his face to the ground.
(1 Chronicles 21:22) Then David said to Ornan, Give me the place of this
threshing-floor, so that I may build an altar in it to Jehovah. You shall give
it to me for the full price, so that the plague may be stayed from the people.
(1 Chronicles 21:23) And Ornan said to David, Take for yourself, and let my lord
the king do what is good in his eyes. Lo, I give the oxen for burnt offerings,
and the threshing instruments for wood, and the wheat for the food offering. I
give it all.
(1 Chronicles 21:24) And King David said to Ornan, No, but I will truly buy it
for the full silver. For I will not take what is yours for Jehovah, nor offer
burnt offerings without cost.
(1 Chronicles 21:25) And David gave to Ornan for the place six hundred shekels
of gold by weight.
(1 Chronicles 21:26) And David built an altar there to Jehovah, and offered
burnt offerings and peace offerings, and called on Jehovah. And He answered him
from Heaven by fire on the altar of burnt offering.
(1 Chronicles 21:27) And Jehovah commanded the angel, and he put up his sword
again into its sheath.
(1 Chronicles 21:28) At that time, when David saw that Jehovah had answered him
in the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite, then he sacrificed there.
(1 Chronicles 21:29) For the tabernacle of Jehovah, which Moses made in the
wilderness, and the altar of the burnt offering, were at that time in the high
place at Gibeon.
(1 Chronicles 21:30) But David could not go before it to ask of God, for he was
afraid because of the sword of the angel of Jehovah.
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A List of the Characters in David: The
Warrior King with records in the Bible
Abner – Saul’s general - influential
cousin.
Achish – Philistine king.
Ahinoam – Saul’s wife.
Eliab – David’s eldest brother.
Jonathan – Saul’s son - eldest prince of Israel.
Michal – Saul’s daughter - David’s wife.
Abiathar – Priest to David who survived Saul’s slaughter at Nob - the son of
Ahimelech.
Abigail from Carmel – David’s second wife - the widow of Nabal.
Abinadab – David’s second eldest brother.
Abishai – Zeruiah’s second son.
Ahimelech – Priest who gave David bread and Goliath’s sword - was murdered
for his actions.
Ahinoam from Jezreel – servant to Abigail - David’s third wife.
Amasa – David’s nephew - his sister Abigail’s only son.
Asahel – Zeruiah’s youngest son
Bathsheba – Beautiful daughter of Eliel.
Doeg – Saul’s henchman.
Ish-bosheth – Saul’s youngest son.
Joab – Zeruiah’s oldest son.
Merab – Saul’s eldest daughter.
Pelet – David’s soldier
Rizpah – Saul’s concubine.
Samuel – Prophet who anoints David king.
Shammah – Daivd’s third eldest brother.
Abigail – David’s sister, her son is Amasa.
Abinadab ben Saul – Saul’s son.
Adriel – Merab’s husband and Saul’s son-in-law.
Hushai – One of David’s guards in the wildernesses.
Jaasiel – Abner’s son.
Malchi-shua – Saul’s son.
Mephibosheth – Jonathan’s only son.
Nethaneel – David’s fourth eldest brother.
Ozem – David’s sixth brother.
Raddai – David’s fifth brother.
Sérèn – Five princes of Philistine (Gath, Gaza, Ekron, Ashkelon, and Ashod).
Zeruiah – David’s sister - mother of Joab, Abishai, and Asahel.
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