H1732–דָּוִד–da.vid

And he took the people out of the town and put them to work with wood-cutting instruments, and iron grain-crushers, and axes. And this he did to all the towns of the children of Ammon. Then David and all the people went back to Jerusalem.

דָוִ֔יד da.Vid “David”דָּוִ֛יד da.Vid “David”

And when he put shame on Israel, Jonathan, the son of Shimea, David's brother, put him to death.

דָוִֽיד׃ da.Vid “David”

These were of the offspring of the Rephaim in Gath; they came to their death by the hands of David and his servants.

דָּוִ֖יד da.Vid “David”

Now Satan, designing evil against Israel, put into David's mind the impulse to take the number of Israel.

דָּוִ֔יד da.Vid “David”

And David said to Joab and the captains of the people, Now let all Israel, from Beer-sheba to Dan, be numbered; and give me word so that I may be certain of their number.

דָּוִ֤יד da.Vid “David”

And Joab gave David the number of all the people; all the men of Israel, able to take up arms, were one million, one hundred thousand men; and those of Judah were four hundred and seventy thousand men, able to take up arms.

דָּוִ֑יד da.Vid “David”

Then David said to God, Great has been my sin in doing this; but now, be pleased to take away the sin of your servant, for I have done very foolishly.

דָּוִיד֙ da.Vid “David”

Then the word of the Lord came to Gad, David's seer, saying,

דָוִ֖יד da.Vid “David”

Go and say to David, The Lord says, Three things are offered to you: say which of them you will have, so that I may do it to you.

דָּוִ֜יד da.Vid “David”

So Gad came to David and said to him, The Lord says, Take whichever you will:

דָּוִ֑יד da.Vid “David”

And David said to Gad, This is a hard decision for me to make: let me come into the hands of the Lord, for great are his mercies: let me not come into the hands of men.

דָּוִ֛יד da.Vid “David”

And David, lifting up his eyes, saw the angel of the Lord there between earth and heaven, with an uncovered sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the responsible men, clothed in haircloth, went down on their faces.

דָוִ֜יד da.Vid “David”דָּוִ֧יד da.Vid “David”

And David said to God, Was it not I who gave the order for the people to be numbered? It is I who have done the sin and the great wrong; but these are only sheep; what have they done? let your hand, O Lord God, be lifted up against me and against my fami

דָּוִ֣יד da.Vid “David”

Then the angel of the Lord gave orders to Gad to say to David that he was to go and put up an altar to the Lord on the grain-floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

לְדָוִ֑יד (דָוִ֑יד) da.Vid “David”דָוִ֗יד da.Vid “David”

And David went up, as Gad had said in the name of the Lord.

דָּוִיד֙ da.Vid “David”

And when David came, Ornan, looking, saw him, and came out from the grain-floor and went down on his face to the earth before him.

דָוִ֖יד da.Vid “David”דָּוִ֔יד da.Vid “David”לְדָוִ֛יד (דָוִ֛יד) da.Vid “David”

Then David said to Ornan, Give me the place where this grain-floor is, so that I may put up an altar here to the Lord: let me have it for its full price; so that this disease may be stopped among the people.

דָּוִ֜יד da.Vid “David”

And Ornan said to David, Take it, and let my lord the king do what seems right to him. See, I give you the oxen for burned offerings and the grain-cleaning instruments for fire-wood, and the grain for the meal offering; I give it all.

דָּוִיד֙ da.Vid “David”

And King David said to Ornan, No; I will certainly give you the full price for it, because I will not take for the Lord what is yours, or give a burned offering without payment.

דָּוִיד֙ da.Vid “David”

So David gave Ornan six hundred shekels of gold by weight for the place.

דָּוִ֛יד da.Vid “David”

And David put up an altar there to the Lord, offering burned offerings and peace-offerings with prayers to the Lord; and he gave him an answer from heaven, sending fire on the altar of burned offering.

דָּוִ֤יד da.Vid “David”

At that time, when David saw that the Lord had given him an answer on the grain-floor of Ornan the Jebusite, he made an offering there.

דָּוִיד֙ da.Vid “David”

But David was not able to go before it to get directions from the Lord, so great was his fear of the sword of the angel of the Lord.

דָּוִ֛יד da.Vid “David”

Then David said, This is the house of the Lord God, and this is the altar for Israel's burned offerings.

דָּוִ֔יד da.Vid “David”

And David gave orders to get together all the men from strange lands who were in the land of Israel; and he put stone-cutters to work, cutting stones for building the house of God.

דָּוִ֔יד da.Vid “David”