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1 Chronicles 21:20 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" Ornan turned back and saw the angel; and his four sons who were with him hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat. "

1 Chronicles 21:20

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18 Then the LORD’s angel commanded Gad to tell David that David should go up and raise an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

19 David went up at the saying of Gad, which he spoke in the LORD’s name.

20 Ornan turned back and saw the angel; and his four sons who were with him hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat.

21 As David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David, and went out of the threshing floor, and bowed himself to David with his face to the ground.

22 Then David said to Ornan, “Sell me the place of this threshing floor, that I may build an altar to the LORD on it. You shall sell it to me for the full price, that the plague may be stopped from afflicting the people.”

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1 Chronicles 21:1

"Satan stood up against Israel, and moved David to take a census of Israel."

1 Chronicles 21:2

"David said to Joab and to the princes of the people, “Go, count Israel from Beersheba even to Dan; and bring me word, that I may know how many there are.”"

1 Chronicles 21:3

"Joab said, “May the LORD make his people a hundred times as many as they are. But, my lord the king, aren’t they all my lord’s servants? Why does my lord require this thing? Why will he be a cause of guilt to Israel?”"

1 Chronicles 21:4

"Nevertheless the king’s word prevailed against Joab. Therefore Joab departed and went throughout all Israel, then came to Jerusalem."

1 Chronicles 21:5

"Joab gave the sum of the census of the people to David. All those of Israel were one million one hundred thousand men who drew a sword; and in Judah were four hundred seventy thousand men who drew a sword."

1 Chronicles 21:6

"But he didn’t count Levi and Benjamin among them, for the king’s word was abominable to Joab."

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