1 Chronicles 21:13-15

New Catholic Bible

¹³ David said to Gad, “I am greatly distressed. Let me fall into the hands of the Lord, for his mercies are truly great. Let me not fall into human hands.”

¹⁴ So the Lord sent a plague upon Israel, and seventy thousand people fell because of it. ¹⁵ God also sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it. As he was destroying it, the Lord regretted the disaster, and he said to the destroying angel, “Enough! Hold back your hand!”

Ornan’s Threshing Floor. So the angel of the Lord stood by the threshing floor of Ornan, the Jebusite.