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and plucked the speare out of the Egyptians hand, towarde the South of Iudah, euen to Beer-sheba.
and slewe him with his owne speare. 22 These 8 So when they had gone about all the lande,
things did Benaiah the sonne of Iehoiada, and they returned to Ierusalem at the ende of nine
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had the name among the three worthies. 23 He moneths and twentie dayes. And Ioab deliuered
was honourable among thirtie, but he atteined the nomber and summe of the people vnto the
not to the first three: and Dauid made him of King: and there were in Israel eight hundreth
his counsell. 24 Asahel the brother of Ioab was thousande strong men that drewe swordes, and
one of the thirtie: Elhanan the sonne of Dodo of the men of Iudah were fiue hundreth thousand
Beth-lehem: 25 Shammah the Harodite: Elika ye men. 10 Then Dauids heart smote him, after
Harodite: 26 Helez the Paltite: Ira the sonne of that he had numbred the people: and Dauid said
Ikkesh the Tekoite: 27 Abiezer the Anethothite: vnto the Lord, I haue sinned exceedingly in that
Mebunnai the Husathite: 28 Zalmon an Ahohite: I haue done: therefore nowe, Lord, I beseech
Maharai the Netophathite: 29 Heleb the sonne thee, take away the trespasse of thy seruant: for
of Baanah a Netophathite: Ittai the sonne of I haue done very foolishly. 11 And when Dauid
Ribai of Gibeah of the children of Beniamin: was vp in the morning, the worde of the Lord
30 Benaiah the Pirathonite: Hiddai of the riuer
of Gaash: 31 Abi-albon the Arbathite: Azmaueth came vnto the Prophet Gad Dauids Seer, saying,
the Barhumite: 32 Elihaba the Shaalbonite: of 12 Go, and say vnto Dauid, Thus saith ye Lord,
the sonnes of Iashen, Ionathan: 33 Shammah the I offer thee three thinges, chuse thee which of
Hararite: Ahiam the sonne of Sharar the Hamrite: them I shall doe vnto thee. 13 So Gad came to
34 Eliphelet the sonne of Ahasbai the sonne of Dauid, and shewed him, and said vnto him, Wilt
Maachathi: Eliam the sonne of Ahithophel the thou that seuen yeeres famine come vpon thee in
Gilonite: 35 Hezrai the Carmelite: Paarai the thy lande, or wilt thou flee three moneths before
Arbite: 36 Igal the sonne of Nathan of Zobah: Bani thine enemies, they following thee, or that there
the Gadite: 37 Zelek the Ammonite: Naharai the bee three dayes pestilence in thy land? nowe
Becrothite, the armour bearer of Ioab the sonne aduise thee, and see, what answere I shall giue
of Zeruiah: 38 Ira the Ithrite: Gareb the Ithrite:
39 Uriiah the Hittite, thirtie and seuen in all. to him that sent me. 14 And Dauid said vnto
Gad, I am in a wonderfull strait: let vs fall nowe
24 into the hand of the Lord, (for his mercies are
1 And the wrath of the Lord was againe kindled great) and let mee not fall into the hand of man.
So the Lord sent a pestilece in Israel, from
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against Israel, and he moued Dauid against them, the morning euen to the time appointed: and
in that he saide, Goe, number Israel and Iudah. there dyed of the people from Dan euen to Beer-
2 For the King said to Ioab the captaine of the 16
hoste, which was with him, Goe speedily now sheba seuentie thousand men. And when the
Angel stretched out his hande vpon Ierusalem
through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan euen to destroy it, the Lord repented of the euil, and
to Beer-sheba, and nomber ye the people, that I said to the Angel that destroyed the people, It
may knowe the nomber of the people. And Ioab is sufficient, holde nowe thine hand. And the
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saide vnto the King, The Lord thy God increase Angel of the Lord was by the threshing place of
the people an hundreth folde more then they Araunah the Iebusite. 17 And Dauid spake vnto
be, and that the eyes of my lorde the King may the Lord (when he sawe the Angel that smote
see it: but why doeth my lord the King desire the people) and saide, Behold, I haue sinned, yea,
this thing? 4 Notwithstanding the Kings worde I haue done wickedly: but these sheepe, what
preuailed against Ioab and against the captaines haue they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, be
of the hoste: therefore Ioab and the captaines against mee and against my fathers house. 18 So
of the hoste went out from the presence of the Gad came the same day to Dauid, and said vnto
King to nomber the people of Israel. 5 And they him, Go vp, reare an altar vnto the Lord in the
passed ouer Iorden, and pitched in Aroer at the threshing floore of Araunah the Iebusite. 19 And
right side of the citie that is in the middes of Dauid (according to the saying of Gad) went vp,
the valley of Gad and toward Iazer. 6 Then they as the Lord had commanded. 20 And Araunah
came to Gilead, and to Tahtim-hodshi, so they looked, and sawe the King and his seruants com-
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came to Dan Iaan, and so about to Zidon, And ming towarde him, and Araunah went out, and
came to the fortresse of Tyrus and to all the cities bowed himselfe before the King on his face to the
of the Hiuites and of the Canaanites, and went