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1 Chronicles 21:7-17
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7 God was also offended by it,[a] so he attacked Israel.

8 David said to God, “I have sinned greatly by doing this! Now, please remove the guilt of your servant, for I have acted very foolishly.” 9 The Lord told Gad, David’s prophet,[b] 10 “Go, tell David, ‘This is what the Lord says: “I am offering you three forms of judgment from which to choose. Pick one of them.”’”[c] 11 Gad went to David and told him, “This is what the Lord says: ‘Pick one of these: 12 three[d] years of famine, or three months being chased by your enemies and struck down by their swords,[e] or three days being struck down by the Lord, during which a plague will invade the land and the angel of the Lord will destroy throughout Israel’s territory.’[f] Now, decide what I should tell the one who sent me.” 13 David said to Gad, “I am very upset! I prefer to be attacked by the Lord, for his mercy is very great; I do not want to be attacked by men!”[g] 14 So the Lord sent a plague through Israel, and 70,000 Israelite men died.

15 God sent an angel[h] to ravage[i] Jerusalem. As he was doing so,[j] the Lord watched[k] and relented from[l] his judgment.[m] He told the angel who was destroying, “That’s enough![n] Stop now!”[o]

Now the angel of the Lord was standing near the threshing floor of Ornan[p] the Jebusite. 16 David looked up and saw the angel of the Lord standing between the earth and sky with his sword drawn and in his hand, stretched out over Jerusalem. David and the leaders, covered with sackcloth, threw themselves down with their faces to the ground.[q] 17 David said to God, “Was I not the one who decided to number the army? I am the one who sinned and committed this awful deed![r] As for these sheep—what have they done? O Lord my God, attack me and my family,[s] but remove the plague from your people!”[t]

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  1. 1 Chronicles 21:7 tn Heb “There was displeasure in the eyes of God concerning this thing.”
  2. 1 Chronicles 21:9 tn Heb “seer.”
  3. 1 Chronicles 21:10 tn Heb “Three I am extending to you; choose for yourself one of them and I will do it to you.”
  4. 1 Chronicles 21:12 tc The parallel text in the MT of 2 Sam 24:13 has “seven,” but LXX has “three” there.
  5. 1 Chronicles 21:12 tc Heb “or three months being swept away from before your enemies and the sword of your enemies overtaking.” The Hebrew term נִסְפֶּה (nispeh, Niphal participle from סָפָה, safah) should probably be emended to נֻסְכָה (nusekhah, Qal infinitive from נוּס [nus] with second masculine singular suffix). See 2 Sam 24:13.
  6. 1 Chronicles 21:12 tn Heb “or three days of the sword of the Lord and plague in the land, and the angel of the Lord destroying in all the territory of Israel.”
  7. 1 Chronicles 21:13 tn Heb “There is great distress to me; let me fall into the hand of the Lord, for his mercy is very great, but into the hand of men let me not fall.”
  8. 1 Chronicles 21:15 tn The parallel text of 2 Sam 24:15 reports that God sent a plague, while 24:16-17 attributes this to the instrumentality of an angel.
  9. 1 Chronicles 21:15 tn Or “destroy.”
  10. 1 Chronicles 21:15 tn Heb “while he was destroying.”
  11. 1 Chronicles 21:15 tn Or “saw.”
  12. 1 Chronicles 21:15 tn Or “was grieved because of.”
  13. 1 Chronicles 21:15 tn Heb “concerning the calamity.”
  14. 1 Chronicles 21:15 tn For this nuance of the Hebrew word רַב (rav), see BDB 913 s.v. 1.f.
  15. 1 Chronicles 21:15 tn Heb “Now, drop your hand.”
  16. 1 Chronicles 21:15 tn In the parallel text in 2 Sam 24:16 this individual is called אֲרַוְנָא (ʾaravnaʾ, “Aravna”), traditionally “Araunah.” The form of the name found here also occurs in vv. 18-28.
  17. 1 Chronicles 21:16 tn Heb “and David and the elders, covered with sackcloth, fell on their faces.”
  18. 1 Chronicles 21:17 tn “and doing evil I did evil.” The infinitive absolute precedes the finite form of the verb for emphasis.
  19. 1 Chronicles 21:17 tn Heb “let your hand be on me and on the house of my father.”
  20. 1 Chronicles 21:17 tn Heb “but on your people not for a plague.”
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1 Chronicles 21:7-17
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David Chooses His Punishment(A)

7 God considered this behavior[a] to be evil, so he attacked Israel. 8 David responded to God, “I sinned greatly by behaving this way. But now I am asking you, please remove the guilt of your servant, since I have acted very foolishly.”

9 So the Lord responded through Gad, David’s seer. 10 “Go and tell David, ‘This is what the Lord says: “I’m holding three choices out for you: pick one of them for yourself, and I will do it to you.”’”[b]

11 Gad went to David and told him, “This is what the Lord says: ‘Make a choice for yourself: 12 Either three years of famine, or three months of reversals[c] as you are swept away by your enemies while the sword of your enemies overtakes you, or three days with the sword of the Lord, consisting of pestilence infecting the land, with the angel of the Lord wreaking destruction from border to border throughout all[d] of Israel.’ Decide right now what I am to answer to the one who sent me.”

13 So David replied to Gad, “This is a very bad choice for me to make! Let me now please fall into the hand of the Lord, because his mercy is very great, but may I never fall into human hands!”

14 Then the Lord sent a pestilence to Israel, and 70,000 men died in Israel. 15 God also sent an angel to destroy Jerusalem, but as he was about to do so, the Lord looked and withdrew[e] the calamity by saying to the destroying angel, “Enough! Stop what you’re doing!”[f]

So the angel of the Lord remained standing near the threshing floor that belonged to Ornan[g] the Jebusite.[h] 16 David looked up and saw the angel of the Lord standing between earth and heaven, with a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell on their faces.

17 David told God, “Wasn’t I the one who ordered the census of the population? Wasn’t it I who sinned and acted wickedly? Now as for these sheep, what have they done? Lord God, please let your hand be against me and my ancestral household, but don’t let your people be ravaged by plague!”

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Notas al pie

  1. 1 Chronicles 21:7 Lit. this matter
  2. 1 Chronicles 21:10 MT pronouns are sing. in this vs.
  3. 1 Chronicles 21:12 Or destruction
  4. 1 Chronicles 21:12 Lit. destruction in all the border
  5. 1 Chronicles 21:15 Or and relented concerning
  6. 1 Chronicles 21:15 Lit. Stay your hand
  7. 1 Chronicles 21:15 Ornan was also known as Araunah; cf. 2Sam 24:16
  8. 1 Chronicles 21:15 I.e. a descendant of Canaan’s third son (cf. Gen 10:15-16); Jebusites were native to Jebus, the ancient name of the city of Jerusalem
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