15 So (A)the Lord sent a plague upon Israel from the morning till the appointed time. From Dan to Beersheba seventy thousand men of the people died. 16 (B)And when the [a]angel stretched out His hand over Jerusalem to destroy it, (C)the Lord relented from the destruction, and said to the angel who was destroying the people, “It is enough; now restrain your hand.” And the angel of the Lord was by the threshing floor of [b]Araunah the Jebusite.

17 Then David spoke to the Lord when he saw the angel who was striking the people, and said, “Surely (D)I have sinned, and I have done wickedly; but these sheep, what have they done? Let Your hand, I pray, be against me and against my father’s house.”

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 24:16 Or Angel
  2. 2 Samuel 24:16 Ornan, 1 Chr. 21:15

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