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2 Samuel 24:14-16
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14 David said to Gad, “I am very upset! I prefer that we be attacked by the Lord, for his mercy is great; I do not want to be attacked by human hands!”[a]

15 So the Lord sent a plague through Israel from the morning until the completion of the appointed time, and 70,000 people died from Dan to Beer Sheba. 16 When the angel[b] extended his hand to destroy Jerusalem, the Lord relented from his judgment.[c] He told the angel who was killing the people, “That’s enough! Stop now!”[d] (Now the angel of the Lord was near the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.)

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 24:14 tn Heb “There is great distress to me. Let us fall into the hand of the Lord, for great is his mercy, but into the hand of man let me not fall.”
  2. 2 Samuel 24:16 tn Heb “messenger.”
  3. 2 Samuel 24:16 tn Heb “concerning the calamity.”
  4. 2 Samuel 24:16 tn Heb “Now, drop your hand.”
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