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Page 35
David's heart struck him, after the people were numbered... That is he
was touched with a great remorse for the vanity and pride which had put
him upon numbering the people.
24:11. And David arose in the morning, and the word of the Lord came to
Gad the prophet and the seer of David, saying:
24:12. Go, and say to David: Thus saith the Lord: I give thee thy choice
of three things, choose one of them which thou wilt, that I may do it to
thee.
24:13. And when Gad was come to David, he told him, saying: Either seven
years of famine shall come to thee in thy land: or thou shalt flee three
months before thy adversaries, and they shall pursue thee: or for three
days there shall be a pestilence in thy land. Now therefore deliberate,
and see what answer I shall return to him that sent me.
24:14. And David said to Gad: I am in a great strait: but it is better
that I should fall into the hands of the Lord (for his mercies are many)
than into the hands of men.
24:15. And the Lord sent a pestilence upon Israel, from the morning unto
the time appointed, and there died of the people from Dan to Bersabee
seventy thousand men.
24:16. And when the angel of the Lord had stretched out his hand over
Jerusalem to destroy it, the Lord had pity on the affliction, and said
to the angel that slew the people: It is enough: now hold thy hand. And
the angel of the Lord was by the thrashingfloor of Areuna the Jebusite.
24:17. And David said to the Lord, when he saw the angel striking the
people: It is I; I am he that have sinned, I have done wickedly: these
that are the sheep, what have they done? let thy hand, I beseech thee,
be turned against me, and against my father's house.
24:18. And Gad came to David that day, and said: Go up, and build an
altar to the Lord in the thrashingfloor of Areuna the Jebusite.
24:19. And David went up according to the word of Gad which the Lord had
commanded him.
24:20. And Areuna looked, and saw the king and his servants coming
towards him:
24:21. And going out he worshipped the king, bowing with his face to the
earth, and said: Wherefore is my lord the king come to his servant? And
David said to him: To buy the thrashingfloor of thee, and build an altar
to the Lord, that the plague, which rageth among the people, may cease.
24:22. And Areuna said to David: Let my lord the king take, and offer,
as it seemeth good to him: thou hast here oxen for a holocaust, and the
wain, and the yokes of the oxen for wood.
24:23. All these things Areuna as a king gave to the king: and Areuna
said to the king: The Lord thy God receive thy vow.
24:24. And the king answered him, and said: Nay, but I will buy it of
thee, at a price, and I will not offer to the Lord my God holocausts
free cost. So David bought the floor, and the oxen, for fifty sicles of
silver:
24:25. And David built there an altar to the Lord, and offered
holocausts and peace offerings: and the Lord became merciful to the
land, and the plague was stayed from Israel.
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