13 And David said unto Gad, I am in a wonderful strait, let me now fall into the hand of the Lord: for his mercies are exceedingly great, and let me not fall into the hand of man.

14 So the Lord sent a pestilence in Israel, and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men.

15 ¶ And God sent the Angel into Jerusalem to destroy it. And [a]as he was destroying, the Lord beheld, and [b]repented of the evil, and said to the Angel that destroyed, It is now enough, let thine hand cease. Then the Angel of the Lord stood by the threshing floor of [c]Ornan the Jebusite.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Chronicles 21:15 Read 2 Sam. 24:16.
  2. 1 Chronicles 21:15 When God draweth back his plagues, he seemeth to repent, read Gen. 6:6.
  3. 1 Chronicles 21:15 Or, Araunah.

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