The Bible and Holy Scriptures conteyned in the Olde and Newe Testament. Translated according to the Ebrue and Greke, and conferred with the best translations in diuers languges. VVith moste profitable annotations vpon all the hard places, and other things of great importance as may appeare in the epistle to the reader

CHAP. XXI.

1 Dauid causeth the people to be nombred. 14 And there dye seuentie thousand men of the pestilence.

1 ANd ^a Satan stode vp against Israél, and* 1.1 prouoked Dauid to nomber israél.

2 Therefore Dauid said to Ioáb, and to the ru lers of the people, Go, (and) nomber Israél frōb 1.2 Beer-shéba euen to Dan, and bring it to* 1.3 me, that I may know the nomber of them.

3 And 〈◊〉〈◊〉 answered, The Lord increase his people an hundreth times so many as they be ô my lord the King: are they not all my lords seruants? wherefore doeth my lord require this things why shulde he be a cause ofc 1.4 tres passe to 〈◊〉〈◊〉.

4 Neuertheles the Kings worde preuailed a∣gainst Ioáb. And Ioáb departed and went through al Israél, and returned to Ierusalém.

5 And Ioáb gaue the nomber (and) summe of the people vnto Dauid: and all Israél wered 1.5 eleuen hundreth thousand men that drewe sworde: and Iudáh wase 1.6 foure hundreth and seuentie thousand men that drewe sworde.

6 But the Lenites and Beniamin counted he not among them: for the Kings worde was abominable to Ioáb.

7 ¶ And God was displeased with this thing: therefore he smote Israél.

8 Then Dauid said vnto God, I haue sinned greatly, because I haue done this thing: but now, I beseche thee, remoue the iniquitie of thy seruant: for I 〈◊〉〈◊〉 done very foolishly.

9 And the Lord spake vnto 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Dauids“ 1.7 Seer saying,

10 Go and tel Dauid, saying, Thus sayth the Lord, I offre thee thre things chose thee one of them, that I may do it vntothee.

11 So Gad came to Dauid, and said vnto him, Thus sayth the Lord, Take to thee.

12 Ether thre yeres famine, or thre moneths to be destroyed before thine aduersaries, ād the sworde of thine enemies to take (the,)* 1.8 or els the sworde of the Lord and pestilence in the land thre dayes, that the Angel of the Lord may destroy throughout all the coa∣stes of Israél: now therefore aduise thee, what worde I shal bring againe to him that sent me.

13 And Dauid said vnto Gad, I am in a wonder ful strait, let me now fall into the hand of the Lord: for his mercies (are) exceding great, & let me not fall into the hand of man.

14 So the Lord sent a pestilence in Israél, and there fell of Israél seuentie thousand men.

15 ¶ And God sent the Angel into Ierusalém to destroye it. Andf 1.9 as he was destroying, the Lord behelde, andg 1.10 repented of the euil and said to the Angel that destroyed, It is now ynough, let thine hand cease. Then the An∣gel of the Lord stode by the thresshing floo∣re of“ 1.11 Ornán the Iebusite.

16 And Dauid lift vp his eyes, and sawe the An gell of the Lord stand betwnene the earth and the heauen with his sworde drawen in his hand, (and) stretched out towarde Ierusalém Then Dauid and the Elders of Israél, which were clothed in sacke, fell vpon their faces.

17 And Dauid said vnto God, Is it not, I that commanded to nomber the people? It is euē I that haue sinned and haue committed euil, but these shepe what haue they done? ô Lord my God, I beseche thee, let thine hand be on me and on my fathers house, ād not onh 1.12 thy people for (their) destruction.

18 ¶ Then the Angel of the Lord commanded Gad to say to Dauid, that Dauid shulde govp and set vp an altar vnto the Lord in the thres∣shing flore of Ornán the Iebusite.

19 So Dauid went vp according to the saying of Gad, which he had spoken in the Name of the Lord.

20 And Ornán turned about, and sawe the An∣gel, and his foure sonnes (that were) with him,i 1.13 hid them selues, and Ornán thresshed wheat.

21 And as Dauid came to Ornán, Ornán loked and sawe Dauid and went out of the thres∣shing floore, and bowed him selfe to Dauid with his face to the ground.

22 And Dauid said to Ornán, Giue me the pla∣ce of (thy) thresshing floore, that I may buyl∣de ank 1.14 altar thereinvnto the Lord: giue it me for sufficient money, that the plague may be stayed from the people.

23 Thē Ornán said vnto Dauid, Take it to thee and let my lord the King do that which se∣meth him good: lo, I giue thee bullockes for burnt offrings, and tresshing instruments for wood, and wheat for meat offring, I giue it all.

24 And King Dauid said to Ornán, Not so: but I wil bye it for sufficiētl 1.15 money: for I wil not take that which is thine for the Lord, nor of∣fer burnt offrings without cost.

25 So Dauid gaue to Ornán for that placem 1.16 six hundreth shekels of golde by weight.

26 And Dauid buylt there an altar vnto the Lord, and offred burnt offrings, and peace offrings, and called vpon the Lord, and hen 1.17 answered him by fyre from heauen vpon the altar of burnt offring.

27 And when the Lord had spoken to the Angel, he putvp his sworde againe into his shethe.

28 Arthat time whē Dauid sawe that the Lord had heard him in the thresshing floore of Or nán the Iebusite, then he sacrificed there.

29 [But the Tab ernacle of the Lord which Mosés had made in the wildernes, and the al tar of burnt offring (were) at that season in the hie place at Gibeōn.

30 And Dauid colde not go before it to aske counsel at God: for he was afraied of the sworde of the Angel of the Lord)

Notes

• * 1.1

  He tempted Da∣uid in setting be fore his eyes his excellencie and glo tie, his power & victories, read.
• b 1.2

  That is, from Southe to North.
• * 1.3

  2. Sam. 24. 1.
• c 1.4

  It was a thing indifferent and vsual to nomber the people, but because he did it of an ambitious minde, as thogh his strength stode in his people God punished him.
• d 1.5

  Ioáb partely for grief & partly through negligen ce gathered not the whole 〈◊〉〈◊〉-me as it is here declared.
• e 1.6

  In Samuél is menrion of thir∣tie thousand mo te: which was ether by ioyning to them some of the Beniamites, which were mi∣xed with sudáh, or as the Ebre∣wes write, here the chief and princes are left out.
• “ 1.7

  Or, Prophet.
• * 1.8

  "Or, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 thee.
• f 1.9

  Read 2. Sam. 24. 16.
• g 1.10

  Whē God dra∣ueth backe his flagues, he se∣meth to 〈◊〉〈◊〉, read Gene. 6. 6.
• “ 1.11

  Or, Araunáb.
• h 1.12

  Thus he bothe sheweth a true repentance and a fatherlie care toward his peo∣ple, which desi∣reth God to spa∣re them and to punish him and his.
• i 1.13

  If man hide him selfe at the sight of an An∣gel which is a creature, how muche lesse is a sinnerable to ap peare before the face of God?
• k 1.14

  Thus he did 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the comman∣dement of God, as vers 18. for els it had bene abo∣minable except he had ether Gods worde, or reuelacion.
• l 1.15

  That is, as mu∣che as it is wor∣the: for hauing ynough of his owne and yet to haue taken of a∣nother mans goods to offer vnto the Lord, it had bene theft and not accepta∣ble to God.
• m 1.16

  Read 2. Sam. 24. 24.
• n 1.17

  God declared that he heard his requestin that he sent downe fire from heauen: for els thei might vse no fire in sa∣crifice, but of that whith was reser ued stil vpon the altar Leui 6. 13. & came downe frō heauen, Leui. 9. 24 as appeared by the punishe∣ment of Nadàb and 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Leu. 10. 1.