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1 Chronicles 21:19

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David went up at the saying of Gad, which he spoke in Yahweh’s name.

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16David) lifted up his eyes, and saw Yahweh’s angel standing between earth and the sky, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell on their faces.
17David said to God, “Isn’t it I who commanded the people to be counted? It is even I who have sinned and done very wickedly; but these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand, O Yahweh my God, be against me, and against my father’s house; but not against your people, that they should be plagued.”
18Then Yahweh’s angel commanded Gad to tell David) that David should go up and raise an altar to Yahweh on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
19David went up at the saying of Gad, which he spoke in Yahweh’s name.
20Ornan) turned back, and saw the angel; and his four sons who were with him hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat.
21As David)) came to Ornan), Ornan looked and saw David, and went out of the threshing floor, and bowed himself to David with his face to the ground.
22Then David said to Ornan, “Give me the place of this threshing floor, that I may build an altar to Yahweh on it. You shall sell it to me for the full price, that the plague may be stopped from afflicting the people.”

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