Moved by pride, David orders a census of his fighting men against Joab’s protest, and afterward his conscience smites him for trusting in numbers rather than the LORD. Offered three judgments, he chooses to fall into the LORD’s hands, and a plague strikes Israel until the angel reaches Jerusalem. David buys the threshing floor of Araunah, refusing to offer what costs him nothing, and builds an altar there, the future site of the temple, and the plague is stayed.
2 Samuel study chapter
2 Samuel 24
c. 975 BCDavid’s census brings a plague; he buys Araunah’s threshing floor and builds an altar that stays the judgment.
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