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Heleb the son of Baanah of Netophah, Ittai the son of Ribai of Gibeah of the people of Benjamin,

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Benaiah of Pirathon, Hiddai of the brooks of Gaash,

2 Samuel 23:31

Abi-albon the Arbathite, Azmaveth of Bahurim,

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Eliahba the Shaalbonite, the sons of Jashen, Jonathan,

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Shammah the Hararite, Ahiam the son of Sharar the Hararite,

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Eliphelet the son of Ahasbai of Maacah, Eliam the son of Ahithophel the Gilonite,

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Hezro of Carmel, Paarai the Arbite,

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Igal the son of Nathan of Zobah, Bani the Gadite,

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Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai of Beeroth, the armor-bearer of Joab the son of Zeruiah,

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Ira the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite,

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Uriah the Hittite: thirty-seven in all.

2 Samuel 24:1

Again the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he incited David against them, saying, “Go, number Israel and Judah.”

2 Samuel 24:2

So the king said to Joab, the commander of the army, who was with him, “Go through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan to Beersheba, and number the people, that I may know the number of the people.”

2 Samuel 24:3

But Joab said to the king, “May the Lord your God add to the people a hundred times as many as they are, while the eyes of my lord the king still see it, but why does my lord the king delight in this thing?”

2 Samuel 24:4

But the king's word prevailed against Joab and the commanders of the army. So Joab and the commanders of the army went out from the presence of the king to number the people of Israel.

2 Samuel 24:5

They crossed the Jordan and began from Aroer, and from the city that is in the middle of the valley, toward Gad and on to Jazer.

2 Samuel 24:6

Then they came to Gilead, and to Kadesh in the land of the Hittites; and they came to Dan, and from Dan they went around to Sidon,

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and came to the fortress of Tyre and to all the cities of the Hivites and Canaanites; and they went out to the Negeb of Judah at Beersheba.

2 Samuel 24:8

So when they had gone through all the land, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.

2 Samuel 24:9

And Joab gave the sum of the numbering of the people to the king: in Israel there were 800,000 valiant men who drew the sword, and the men of Judah were 500,000.

2 Samuel 24:10

But David's heart struck him after he had numbered the people. And David said to the Lord, “I have sinned greatly in what I have done. But now, O Lord, please take away the iniquity of your servant, for I have done very foolishly.”

2 Samuel 24:11

And when David arose in the morning, the word of the Lord came to the prophet Gad, David's seer, saying,

2 Samuel 24:12

“Go and say to David, ‘Thus says the Lord, Three things I offer you. Choose one of them, that I may do it to you.’”

2 Samuel 24:14

Then David said to Gad, “I am in great distress. Let us fall into the hand of the Lord, for his mercy is great; but let me not fall into the hand of man.”

2 Samuel 24:15

So the Lord sent a pestilence on Israel from the morning until the appointed time. And there died of the people from Dan to Beersheba 70,000 men.

2 Samuel 24:16

And when the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, the Lord relented from the calamity and said to the angel who was working destruction among the people, “It is enough; now stay your hand.” And the angel of the Lord was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

2 Samuel 24:17

Then David spoke to the Lord when he saw the angel who was striking the people, and said, “Behold, I have sinned, and I have done wickedly. But these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand be against me and against my father's house.”

2 Samuel 24:18

And Gad came that day to David and said to him, “Go up, raise an altar to the Lord on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.”

2 Samuel 24:19

So David went up at Gad's word, as the Lord commanded.

2 Samuel 24:20

And when Araunah looked down, he saw the king and his servants coming on toward him. And Araunah went out and paid homage to the king with his face to the ground.

2 Samuel 24:21

And Araunah said, “Why has my lord the king come to his servant?” David said, “To buy the threshing floor from you, in order to build an altar to the Lord, that the plague may be averted from the people.”

2 Samuel 24:22

Then Araunah said to David, “Let my lord the king take and offer up what seems good to him. Here are the oxen for the burnt offering and the threshing sledges and the yokes of the oxen for the wood.

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All this, O king, Araunah gives to the king.” And Araunah said to the king, “May the Lord your God accept you.”

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But the king said to Araunah, “No, but I will buy it from you for a price. I will not offer burnt offerings to the Lord my God that cost me nothing.” So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.

2 Samuel 24:25

And David built there an altar to the Lord and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. So the Lord responded to the plea for the land, and the plague was averted from Israel.

1 Kings 1:2

Therefore his servants said to him, “Let a young woman be sought for my lord the king, and let her wait on the king and be in his service. Let her lie in your arms, that my lord the king may be warm.”

1 Kings 1:3

So they sought for a beautiful young woman throughout all the territory of Israel, and found Abishag the Shunammite, and brought her to the king.

1 Kings 1:4

The young woman was very beautiful, and she was of service to the king and attended to him, but the king knew her not.

1 Kings 1:5

Now Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, “I will be king.” And he prepared for himself chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him.

1 Kings 1:7

He conferred with Joab the son of Zeruiah and with Abiathar the priest. And they followed Adonijah and helped him.

1 Kings 1:8

But Zadok the priest and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada and Nathan the prophet and Shimei and Rei and David's mighty men were not with Adonijah.

1 Kings 1:9

Adonijah sacrificed sheep, oxen, and fattened cattle by the Serpent's Stone, which is beside En-rogel, and he invited all his brothers, the king's sons, and all the royal officials of Judah,

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but he did not invite Nathan the prophet or Benaiah or the mighty men or Solomon his brother.

1 Kings 1:11

Then Nathan said to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon, “Have you not heard that Adonijah the son of Haggith has become king and David our lord does not know it?

1 Kings 1:12

Now therefore come, let me give you advice, that you may save your own life and the life of your son Solomon.

1 Kings 1:13

Go in at once to King David, and say to him, ‘Did you not, my lord the king, swear to your servant, saying, Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne? Why then is Adonijah king?’

1 Kings 1:14

Then while you are still speaking with the king, I also will come in after you and confirm your words.”

1 Kings 1:15

So Bathsheba went to the king in his chamber (now the king was very old, and Abishag the Shunammite was attending to the king).

1 Kings 1:16

Bathsheba bowed and paid homage to the king, and the king said, “What do you desire?”

1 Kings 1:17

She said to him, “My lord, you swore to your servant by the Lord your God, saying, ‘Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne.’