Challoner [1752], THE NEW TESTAMENT OF Our LORD and SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST. Translated out of the Latin Vulgat Diligently compared with the original Greek And first published by the English College of Rhemes, anno 1582. Newly revised, and corrected according to the Clementin Edition of the Scriptures. WITH ANNOTATIONS For clearing up modern Controversies in Religion, and other Difficulties of Holy Writ () [word count] [B12000].
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CHAP. XXIV.
David numbreth the people:
God sendeth a pestilence,
which is stopt by David's
prayer and sacrifice.
1 And the anger of the
Lord was again kindled
against Israel, and note stirred
up David among them, saying:
Go, number Israel and
Juda.
2 And the king said to
Joab the general of his army:
Go through all the tribes of
Israel from Dan to Bersabee,
and number ye the people, that
I may know the number of
them.
3 And Joab said to the
king: The Lord thy God increase
thy people, and make
them as many more as they
are now, and again multiply
them a hundred-fold in the
sight of my lord the king: but
what meaneth my lord the
king by this kind of thing?
4 But the king's words prevailed
over the words of Joab,
and of the captains of the
army: and Joab, and the captains
of the soldiers went out
from the presence of the king,
to number the people of Israel.
5 And when they had passed
the Jordan, they came
-- --
to Aroer to the right side of
the city, which is in the vale
of Gad.
6 And by Jazer they passed
into Galaad, and to the
lower land of Hodsi, and they
came into the wood-lands of
Dan. And going about by
Sidon,
7 They passed near the walls
of Tyre, and all the land of
the Hevite, and the Chananite,
and they came to the south of
Juda into Bersabee:
8 And having gone through
the whole land, after nine
months and twenty days, they
came to Jerusalem.
9 And Joab gave up the
sum of the number of the
people to the king, and there
were found of Israel eight
hundred thousand valiant men
that drew the sword: and of Juda
five hundred thousand fighting
men.
10 But note Davids heart struck
him, after the people were
numbered: and David said to
the Lord: I have sinned very
much in what I have done:
but I pray thee O Lord to
take away the iniquity of thy
servant, because I have done
exceeding foolishly.
11 And David arose in the
morning, and the word of the
Lord came to Gad the prophet
and the seer of David,
saying:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 threshing
-- --
floor of Areuna the Jebusite.
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.
18 And Gad came to David
that day, and said: Go up,
and build an altar to the Lord
in the threshing floor of Areuna
the Jebusite.
19 And David went up
according to the word of Gad
which the Lord had commanded
him.
20 And Areuna looked,
and saw the king and his
servants coming towards him.
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 threshing floor of thee,
and build an altar to the Lord,
that the plague, which rageth
among the people, may cease.
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.
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 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:
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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note
Challoner [1752], THE NEW TESTAMENT OF Our LORD and SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST. Translated out of the Latin Vulgat Diligently compared with the original Greek And first published by the English College of Rhemes, anno 1582. Newly revised, and corrected according to the Clementin Edition of the Scriptures. WITH ANNOTATIONS For clearing up modern Controversies in Religion, and other Difficulties of Holy Writ () [word count] [B12000].
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