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Ferrar Fentons 'Holy Bible in Modern English. All spelling, punctuation and formatting maintained through-out. Verse ordering follows the King James version for clarity and necessary organization of the verses.

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RF CH1 21:1 (1017 B.C.) David orders a conscription for the army.
Then Satan arose against Israel, and incited David to make a conscription of Israel.
RF CH1 21:2 So David said to Joab, and the Generals of the Forces, "Go, conscript Israel from Barsheba, to Dan. Then come to me, that I may know the number."
RF CH1 21:3 But Joab replied;—"May the LORD add to his People, that they may become a hundred-fold. Are they not all your Royal Majesty's? Your Majesty's servants? So why does his Majesty desire this? May not Israel be offended at this?"
RF CH1 21:4 Yet the command of the king prevailed over Joab. So Joab went out and travelled to every part of Israel, and returned to Jerusalem,
RF CH1 21:5 where Joab reported the number of the forces,—enrolled for David. And the Forces of Israel were One Million, One Hundred thousand men, disciplined to arms; and of Judah, Four Hundred and seventy Thousand men, disciplined to arms!1
RF CH1 21:6 But Levi and Benjamin were not enrolled amongst them, for Joab was disgusted at the command of the king.
RF CH1 21:7 This command also was wrong in the sight of GOD, so He struck Israel.
RF CH1 21:8 Then David said to GOD "I sinned greatly when I did that thing. But now I pray You to pass over the fault of Your servant, for I have been very foolish."
RF CH1 21:9 The LORD therefore spoke to Gad, David's Seer, and said;
RF CH1 21:10 "Go to David and announce,—'Thus says the EVER-LIVING, I will present three things to you. Choose one from them,—and I will do it for you!'"
RF CH1 21:11 Gad consequently went to David, and said to him, "Thus says the EVER-LIVING; Choose for yourself!
RF CH1 21:12 Either three years of Famine; or three years of flight before your assailants, and the sword of your triumphant enemies; or three days of the Sword of the LORD! with a plague in the country, and the Messenger of the LORD exterminating the forces of Israel? Reflect, therefore, on the answer I am to return to my Sender?"
RF CH1 21:13 And David replied to Gad, "It is very difficult for me. I would rather fall into the hand of the EVER-LIVING—for His mercies are many,—but I would not fall into the hand of Man!"
RF CH1 21:14 The LORD therefore sent a plague to Israel, and seventy thousand of Israel fell.
RF CH1 21:15 The LORD also sent the Divine Messengers to Jerusalem to afflict it; but as he was about to afflict it, the LORD looked, and had pity over the flock, and said to the Messenger,2 "You have punished enough! Now restrain your hand." But the Messenger of the LORD stood opposite the Granary of Arnan the Jebusite;
RF CH1 21:16 and David lifted his eyes and saw the Messenger of the LORD standing between the Earth and the Skies, with his sword drawn in his hand, stretched out over Jerusalem! And David and his Counsellors, clothed in sackcloth, fell on their faces,
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1 NOTE.—Chapter 21, V. 5. In numerals these armies were 1,570,000 men.—F.F.
2 NOTE.—I read (Alohim) in the sense of "Divine," not of "GOD," for the sense of the text demands that meaning here. See Prof. S. Lees' Lexicon on the import of the word.—F.F.
RF CH1 21:17 and David said, to GOD; "Was it not I alone who commanded to conscript for the Forces?—I am the one who has sinned, and have committed the wrong;—but, these sheep,—what have they done? EVER-LIVING GOD! let Your hand, I beg, be upon me;—and do not afflict Your people!"
RF CH1 21:18 So the Messenger of the EVER-LIVING commanded Gad, to order David, to go up and raise an Altar to the EVER-LIVING at the Granary of Arnan the Jebusite.
RF CH1 21:19 David consequently went there at the command of Gad, which he uttered in the name of the LORD.
RF CH1 21:20 Arnan also turned and saw the King,—and he and his four sons who were with him, hid themselves;—for Arnan was thrashing wheat.
RF CH1 21:21 But David advanced to Arnan, when Arnan peeped and saw David, so came out from the Granary, and bowed to David, inclining his face towards the earth.
RF CH1 21:22 David then asked Arnan,—"Will you sell me the site of the Granary? for I wish to build an Altar to the EVER-LIVING. You shall sell it to me for full money value, so that the affliction may be removed from the Forces."
RF CH1 21:23 But Arnan replied to David, "Take it for yourself. And let my Lord the King do what is fair in his opinion. Look! I also give the Bullocks for Burnt-offerings, and the wood of the Thrashing-machine, and the wheat as a Bread-gift.—I will give the whole."
RF CH1 21:24 King David, however, answered to Arnan, "No!—But I will purchase it for full money value, for I will not offer your property to the EVER-LIVING, and thus sacrifice a costless sacrifice."
RF CH1 21:25 So David paid Arnan for the place six hundred gold shekels as the price.
RF CH1 21:26 (1017 B.C.) David Builds an Altar.
Then David built an Altar there, and offered a burnt-offering and a thank-offering, and called on the EVER-LIVING Who answered by fire from the skies to the Altar of the Burnt-offering.
RF CH1 21:27 Then the LORD commanded the Messenger and he returned his sword to its sheath.
RF CH1 21:28 David saw at that time, that the EVER-LIVING had answered him, at the Granary of Arnan the Jebusite, when he sacrificed there.
RF CH1 21:29 For the Tabernacle of the EVER-LIVING which Moses made in the Wilderness, and the Altar for Burnt-offering were at that period at the Mound of Ghibaon.
RF CH1 21:30 David, however, could not go before it to enquire of GOD for he was startled at the presence of the sword of the Messenger of the LORD.




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AKJV ROM 8:32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?



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