10:024:015 So the lord sent a pestilence upon
Israel from the morning
even
to the time appointed: and there died of the people
from
Dan
even to Beersheba seventy thousand men.
10:024:016 And when the angel stretched out his hand
upon Jerusalem to
destroy
it, the lord repented him of the evil, and said
to the
angel
that destroyed the people, It is enough: stay
now thine
hand.
And the angel of the lord was by the threshingplace
of
Araunah
the Jebusite.
10:024:017 And David spake unto the lord when
he saw the angel that smote
the
people, and said, Lo, I have sinned, and I have done
wickedly:
but these sheep, what have they done? let thine
hand,
I pray thee, be against me, and against my father’s
house.
10:024:018 And Gad came that day to David, and said
unto him, Go up, rear
an
altar unto the lord in the threshingfloor of Araunah
the
Jebusite.
10:024:019 And David, according to the saying of Gad,
went up as the lord
commanded.
10:024:020 And Araunah looked, and saw the king and
his servants coming
on
toward him: and Araunah went out, and bowed himself
before
the
king on his face upon the ground.
10:024:021 And Araunah said, Wherefore is my lord
the king come to his
servant?
And David said, To buy the threshingfloor of thee,
to
build
an altar unto the lord, that the plague may be
stayed
from
the people.
10:024:022 And Araunah said unto David, Let my lord
the king take and
offer
up what seemeth good unto him: behold, here be
oxen for
burnt
sacrifice, and threshing instruments and other
instruments
of the oxen for wood.
10:024:023 All these things did Araunah, as a king,
give unto the king.
And
Araunah said unto the king, The lord thy God accept
thee.
10:024:024 And the king said unto Araunah, Nay; but
I will surely buy it
of
thee at a price: neither will I offer burnt offerings
unto
the
lord my God of that which doth cost me nothing.
So David
bought
the threshingfloor and the oxen for fifty shekels of
silver.
10:024:025 And David built there an altar unto the
lord, and offered
burnt
offerings and peace offerings. So the lord
was intreated
for
the land, and the plague was stayed from Israel.
Book 11 1 Kings
11:001:001 Now king David was old and stricken in
years; and they covered
him
with clothes, but he gat no heat.
11:001:002 Wherefore his servants said unto him, Let
there be sought for
my
lord the king a young virgin: and let her stand
before the
king,
and let her cherish him, and let her lie in thy bosom,
that
my lord the king may get heat.


