1 Chronicles 21

• 1. And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.
• 2. 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.
• 3. 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?
• 4. Nevertheless the king's word prevailed against Joab. Wherefore Joab departed, and went throughout all Israel, and came to Jerusalem.
• 5. 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.
• 6. But Levi and Benjamin counted he not among them: for the king's word was abominable to Joab.
• 7. And God was displeased with this thing; therefore he smote Israel.
• 8. 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.
• 9. And the LORD spake unto Gad, David's seer, saying,
• 10. Go and tell David, saying, Thus saith the LORD, I offer thee three things: choose thee one of them, that I may do it unto thee.
• 11. So Gad came to David, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Choose thee
• 12. Either three years' famine; or three months to be destroyed before thy foes, while that the sword of thine enemies overtaketh thee; or else three days the sword of the LORD, even the pestilence, in the land, and the angel of the LORD destroying throughout all the coasts of Israel. Now therefore advise thyself what word I shall bring again to him that sent me.
• 13. 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: but let me not fall into the hand of man.
• 14. So the LORD sent pestilence upon Israel: and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men.
• 15. And God sent an angel unto Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he was destroying, the LORD beheld, and he repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed, It is enough, stay now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD stood by the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.
• 16. And David lifted up his eyes, and saw the angel of the LORD stand between the earth and the heaven, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders of Israel, who were clothed in sackcloth, fell upon their faces.
• 17. And David said unto God, Is it not I that commanded the people to be numbered? even I it is that have sinned and done evil indeed; but as for these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, O LORD my God, be on me, and on my father's house; but not on thy people, that they should be plagued.
• 18. Then the angel of the LORD commanded Gad to say to David, that David should go up, and set up an altar unto the LORD in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.
• 19. And David went up at the saying of Gad, which he spake in the name of the LORD.
• 20. And Ornan turned back, and saw the angel; and his four sons with him hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat.
• 21. And as David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David, and went out of the threshingfloor, and bowed himself to David with his face to the ground.
• 22. Then David said to Ornan, Grant me the place of this threshingfloor, that I may build an altar therein unto the LORD: thou shalt grant it me for the full price: that the plague may be stayed from the people.
• 23. And Ornan said unto David, Take it to thee, and let my lord the king do that which is good in his eyes: lo, I give thee the oxen also for burnt offerings, and the threshing instruments for wood, and the wheat for the meat offering; I give it all.
• 24. And king David said to Ornan, Nay; but I will verily buy it for the full price: for I will not take that which is thine for the LORD, nor offer burnt offerings without cost.
• 25. So David gave to Ornan for the place six hundred shekels of gold by weight.
• 26. And David built there an altar unto the LORD, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and called upon the LORD; and he answered him from heaven by fire upon the altar of burnt offering.
• 27. And the LORD commanded the angel; and he put up his sword again into the sheath thereof.
• 28. At that time when David saw that the LORD had answered him in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite, then he sacrificed there.
• 29. For the tabernacle of the LORD, which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of the burnt offering, were at that season in the high place at Gibeon.
• 30. But David could not go before it to enquire of God: for he was afraid because of the sword of the angel of the LORD.

1 Peter 2

• 1. Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, all evil speakings,
• 2. As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:
• 3. If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious.
• 4. To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious,
• 5. Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
• 6. Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded.
• 7. Unto you therefore which believe he is precious: but unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner,
• 8. And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed.
• 9. But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light;
• 10. Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.
• 11. Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
• 12. Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.
• 13. Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme;
• 14. Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well.
• 15. For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:
• 16. As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.
• 17. Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.
• 18. Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.
• 19. For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully.
• 20. For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.
• 21. For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps:
• 22. Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:
• 23. Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously:
• 24. Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
• 25. For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.

Jonah 4

• 1. But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry.
• 2. And he prayed unto the LORD, and said, I pray thee, O LORD, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish: for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil.
• 3. Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.
• 4. Then said the LORD, Doest thou well to be angry?
• 5. So Jonah went out of the city, and sat on the east side of the city, and there made him a booth, and sat under it in the shadow, till he might see what would become of the city.
• 6. And the LORD God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his grief. So Jonah was exceeding glad of the gourd.
• 7. But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered.
• 8. And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.
• 9. And God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry, even unto death.
• 10. Then said the LORD, Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night:
• 11. And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?

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