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1 Chronicles 21:17-19
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
1 Chronicles 21:17-19
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
17 And David said to God, “Was it not I who gave the command to count the people? It is I who have sinned and done very wickedly. But these sheep, what have they done? Let your hand, I pray, O Lord my God, be against me and against my father’s house, but do not let your people be plagued!”(A)
David’s Altar and Sacrifice
18 Then the angel of the Lord commanded Gad to tell David that he should go up and erect an altar to the Lord on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.(B) 19 So David went up following Gad’s instructions, which he had spoken in the name of the Lord.
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