The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

[Deade]

1 Chronicles 20:5 (NIV)


In another battle with the Philistines, Elhanan son of Jair killed Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, who had a spear with a shaft like a weaver’s rod.

 

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1 Chronicles 20: 6. And again there was war at Gath, where there was a very tall man, who had twenty-four fingers and toes, six fingers on his hands and six toes on his feet; he was one of the offspring of the Rephaim.

 

[Deade]

1 Chronicles 20:7 (NIV)


When he taunted Israel, Jonathan son of Shimea, David’s brother, killed him.

 

[Deade]

1 Chronicles 20:8 (NIV)


These were descendants of Rapha in Gath, and they fell at the hands of David and his men.

 

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1 Chronicles 21:1 (KJV)
And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.

 

[Deade]

1 Chronicles 21:2 (KJV)


And David said to Joab and to the rulers of the people, Go, number Israel from Beersheba even to Dan; and bring the number of them to me, that I may know it.

 

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1 Chronicles 21:3 (KJV)


And Joab answered, the LORD make his people an hundred times so many more as they be: but, my lord the king, are they not all my lord's servants? Why then doth my lord require this thing? Why will he be a cause of trespass to Israel?

 

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1 Chronicles 19:17 (KJV)


And yet this was a small thing in thine eyes, O God; for thou hast also spoken of thy servant's house for a great while to come, and hast regarded me according to the estate of a man of high degree, O LORD God.

1 Chronicles 19:18 (KJV)


What can David speak more to thee for the honour of thy servant? for thou knowest thy servant.

The above verses (1 Chronicles 17:17-18) Should be......

1 Chronicles 19:17-18
And it was told David; and he gathered all Israel, and passed over Jordan, and came upon them, and set the battle in array against them. So when David had put the battle in array against the Syrians, they fought with him. 18But the Syrians fled before Israel; and David slew of the Syrians seven thousand men which fought in chariots, and forty thousand footmen, and killed Shophach the captain of the host.

1 Chronicles 21:4 (KJV)
Nevertheless the king's word prevailed against Joab. Wherefore Joab departed, and went throughout all Israel, and came to Jerusalem.

 

[Deade]

Sorry about that I switched from NIV to KJV and I wasn't careful so the 17th chapter got in there.
1 Chronicles 21:5 (KJV)


And Joab gave the sum of the number of the people unto David. And all they of Israel were a thousand thousand and an hundred thousand men that drew sword: and Judah was four hundred threescore and ten thousand men that drew sword.

 

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1 Chronicles 21:6 (KJV)


But Levi and Benjamin counted he not among them: for the king's word was abominable to Joab.

 

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1 Chronicles 21:7 (KJV)
And God was displeased with this thing; therefore he smote Israel.

 

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1 Chronicles 21:8 (KJV)


And David said unto God, I have sinned greatly, because I have done this thing: but now, I beseech thee, do away the iniquity of thy servant; for I have done very foolishly.

 

[Deade]

1 Chronicles 21:9 (KJV)


And the LORD spake unto Gad, David's seer, saying,

 

[Dan_473]

1 Chronicles 21: 10. Go and say to David, The Lord says, Three things are offered to you: say which of them you will have, so that I may do it to you.

 

[Deade]

1 Chronicles 21:11 (NIV)


So Gad went to David and said to him, “This is what the Lord says: ‘Take your choice:

 

[Deade]

1 Chronicles 21:12 (NIV)


three years of famine, three months of being swept away before your enemies, with their swords overtaking you, or three days of the sword of the Lord—days of plague in the land, with the angel of the Lord ravaging every part of Israel.’ Now then, decide how I should answer the one who sent me.”

That is a high price to pay just for a census.

 

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1 Chronicles 21:13 (ERV)
And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let me fall now into the hand of the LORD; for very great are his mercies: and let me not fall into the hand of man.

 

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1 Chronicles 21: 14. So the Lord sent disease on Israel, causing the death of seventy thousand men.


Yes, a very high price to pay for a census! I think one of the lessons is that God doesn't want us to trust in our human numbers.

 

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1 Chronicles 21:15 (NIV)


And God sent an angel to destroy Jerusalem. But as the angel was doing so, the Lord saw it and relented concerning the disaster and said to the angel who was destroying the people, “Enough! Withdraw your hand.” The angel of the Lord was then standing at the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

 

[Deade]

1 Chronicles 21:16 (NIV)


David looked up and saw the angel of the Lord standing between heaven and earth, with a drawn sword in his hand extended over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell facedown.