\p 1 Chronicles 21.0: \c 21
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\p 1 Chronicles 21.1: \v 1 Satan stood up against Israel, and moved David to take a census of Israel.
\p 1 Chronicles 21.2: \v 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.”
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\p 1 Chronicles 21.3: \v 3 Joab said, “May Yahweh 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?”
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\p 1 Chronicles 21.4: \v 4 Nevertheless the king’s word prevailed against Joab. Therefore Joab departed, and went throughout all Israel, then came to Jerusalem.
\p 1 Chronicles 21.5: \v 5 Joab gave up 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.
\p 1 Chronicles 21.6: \v 6 But he didn’t count Levi and Benjamin among them; for the king’s word was abominable to Joab.
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\p 1 Chronicles 21.7: \v 7 God was displeased with this thing; therefore he struck Israel.
\p 1 Chronicles 21.8: \v 8 David said to God, “I have sinned greatly, in that I have done this thing. But now put away, I beg you, the iniquity of your servant; for I have done very foolishly.”
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\p 1 Chronicles 21.9: \v 9 Yahweh spoke to Gad, David’s seer, saying,
\p 1 Chronicles 21.10: \v 10 “Go and speak to David, saying, ‘Yahweh says, “I offer you three things. Choose one of them, that I may do it to you.”’”
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\p 1 Chronicles 21.11: \v 11 So Gad came to David, and said to him, “Yahweh says, ‘Take your choice:
\p 1 Chronicles 21.12: \v 12 either three years of famine; or three months to be consumed before your foes, while the sword of your enemies overtakes you; or else three days the sword of Yahweh, even pestilence in the land, and Yahweh’s angel destroying throughout all the borders of Israel. Now therefore consider what answer I shall return to him who sent me.’”
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\p 1 Chronicles 21.13: \v 13 David said to Gad, “I am in distress. Let me fall, I pray, into Yahweh’s hand; for his mercies are very great. Don’t let me fall into man’s hand.”
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\p 1 Chronicles 21.14: \v 14 So Yahweh sent a pestilence on Israel, and seventy thousand men of Israel fell.
\p 1 Chronicles 21.15: \v 15 God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it. As he was about to destroy, Yahweh saw, and he relented of the disaster, and said to the destroying angel, “It is enough. Now withdraw your hand.” Yahweh’s angel was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
\p 1 Chronicles 21.16: \v 16 David lifted up his eyes, and saw Yahweh’s angel standing between earth and the sky, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem.
\p Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell on their faces.
\p 1 Chronicles 21.17: \v 17 David said to God, “Isn’t it I who commanded the people to be counted? It is even I who have sinned and done very wickedly; but these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand, O Yahweh my God, be against me, and against my father’s house; but not against your people, that they should be plagued.”
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\p 1 Chronicles 21.18: \v 18 Then Yahweh’s angel commanded Gad to tell David that David should go up and raise an altar to Yahweh on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
\p 1 Chronicles 21.19: \v 19 David went up at the saying of Gad, which he spoke in Yahweh’s name.
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\p 1 Chronicles 21.20: \v 20 Ornan turned back, and saw the angel; and his four sons who were with him hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat.
\p 1 Chronicles 21.21: \v 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.
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\p 1 Chronicles 21.22: \v 22 Then David said to Ornan, “Give me the place of this threshing floor, that I may build an altar to Yahweh 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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\p 1 Chronicles 21.23: \v 23 Ornan said to David, “Take it for yourself, and let my lord the king do that which is good in his eyes. Behold, I give the oxen for burnt offerings, and the threshing instruments for wood, and the wheat for the meal offering. I give it all.”
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\p 1 Chronicles 21.24: \v 24 King David said to Ornan, “No; but I will most certainly buy it for the full price. For I will not take that which is yours for Yahweh, nor offer a burnt offering that costs me nothing.”
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\p 1 Chronicles 21.25: \v 25 So David gave to Ornan six hundred shekels\f + \fr 21:25 \ft A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.32 Troy ounces, so 600 shekels was about 6 kilograms or about 192 Troy ounces.\f* of gold by weight for the place.
\p 1 Chronicles 21.26: \v 26 David built an altar to Yahweh there, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and called on Yahweh; and he answered him from the sky by fire on the altar of burnt offering.
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\p 1 Chronicles 21.27: \v 27 Then Yahweh commanded the angel, and he put his sword back into its sheath.
\p 1 Chronicles 21.28: \v 28 At that time, when David saw that Yahweh had answered him in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, then he sacrificed there.
\p 1 Chronicles 21.29: \v 29 For Yahweh’s tabernacle, which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of burnt offering, were at that time in the high place at Gibeon.
\p 1 Chronicles 21.30: \v 30 But David couldn’t go before it to inquire of God; for he was afraid because of the sword of Yahweh’s angel.
\p Ezra 1.0: \c 1
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\p Ezra 1.1: \v 1 Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that Yahweh’s\f + \fr 1:1 \ft “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.\f* word by Jeremiah’s mouth might be accomplished, Yahweh stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,
\p Ezra 1.2: \v 2 “Cyrus king of Persia says, ‘Yahweh, the God\f + \fr 1:2 \ft The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).\f* of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he has commanded me to build him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah.
\p Ezra 1.3: \v 3 Whoever there is among you of all his people, may his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and build the house of Yahweh, the God of Israel (he is God), which is in Jerusalem.
\p Ezra 1.4: \v 4 Whoever is left, in any place where he lives, let the men of his place help him with silver, with gold, with goods, and with animals, in addition to the free will offering for God’s house which is in Jerusalem.’”
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\p Ezra 1.5: \v 5 Then the heads of fathers’ households of Judah and Benjamin, the priests, and the Levites, all whose spirit God had stirred to go up rose up to build Yahweh’s house which is in Jerusalem.
\p Ezra 1.6: \v 6 All those who were around them strengthened their hands with vessels of silver, with gold, with goods, with animals, and with precious things, in addition to all that was willingly offered.
\p Ezra 1.7: \v 7 Also Cyrus the king brought out the vessels of Yahweh’s house, which Nebuchadnezzar had brought out of Jerusalem, and had put in the house of his gods;
\p Ezra 1.8: \v 8 even those, Cyrus king of Persia brought out by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer, and counted them out to Sheshbazzar, the prince of Judah.
\p Ezra 1.9: \v 9 This is the number of them: thirty platters of gold, one thousand platters of silver, twenty-nine knives,
\p Ezra 1.10: \v 10 thirty bowls of gold, four hundred ten silver bowls of a second sort, and one thousand other vessels.
\p Ezra 1.11: \v 11 All the vessels of gold and of silver were five thousand four hundred. Sheshbazzar brought all these up when the captives were brought up from Babylon to Jerusalem.
\p 3 John 1.0: \c 1
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\p 3 John 1.1: \v 1 The elder to Gaius the beloved, whom I love in truth.
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\p 3 John 1.2: \v 2 Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be healthy, even as your soul prospers.
\p 3 John 1.3: \v 3 For I rejoiced greatly when brothers came and testified about your truth, even as you walk in truth.
\p 3 John 1.4: \v 4 I have no greater joy than this: to hear about my children walking in truth.
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\p 3 John 1.5: \v 5 Beloved, you do a faithful work in whatever you accomplish for those who are brothers and strangers.
\p 3 John 1.6: \v 6 They have testified about your love before the assembly. You will do well to send them forward on their journey in a way worthy of God,
\p 3 John 1.7: \v 7 because for the sake of the Name they went out, taking nothing from the Gentiles.
\p 3 John 1.8: \v 8 We therefore ought to receive such, that we may be fellow workers for the truth.
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\p 3 John 1.9: \v 9 I wrote to the assembly, but Diotrephes, who loves to be first among them, doesn’t accept what we say.
\p 3 John 1.10: \v 10 Therefore if I come, I will call attention to his deeds which he does, unjustly accusing us with wicked words. Not content with this, neither does he himself receive the brothers, and those who would, he forbids and throws out of the assembly.
\p 3 John 1.11: \v 11 Beloved, don’t imitate that which is evil, but that which is good. He who does good is of God. He who does evil hasn’t seen God.
\p 3 John 1.12: \v 12 Demetrius has the testimony of all, and of the truth itself; yes, we also testify, and you know that our testimony is true.
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\p 3 John 1.13: \v 13 I had many things to write to you, but I am unwilling to write to you with ink and pen;
\p 3 John 1.14: \v 14 but I hope to see you soon. Then we will speak face to face. Peace be to you. The friends greet you. Greet the friends by name.