2╙┴ 24:1 ┴ND AGAIN THE ANGER OF THE ╠╧╥─ WAS KINDLED AGAINST ╔SRAEL, AND HE MOVED ─AVID AGAINST THEM TO SAY, ╟O, NUMBER ╔SRAEL AND ╩UDAH.
2╙┴ 24:2 ╞OR THE KING SAID TO ╩OAB THE CAPTAIN OF THE HOST, WHICH WAS WITH HIM, ╟O NOW THROUGH ALL THE TRIBES OF ╔SRAEL, FROM ─AN EVEN TO ┬EERSHEBA, AND NUMBER YE THE PEOPLE, THAT ╔ MAY KNOW THE NUMBER OF THE PEOPLE.
2╙┴ 24:3 ┴ND ╩OAB SAID UNTO THE KING, ╬OW THE ╠╧╥─ THY ╟OD ADD UNTO THE PEOPLE, HOW MANY SOEVER THEY BE, AN HUNDREDFOLD, AND THAT THE EYES OF MY LORD THE KING MAY SEE IT: BUT WHY DOTH MY LORD THE KING DELIGHT IN THIS THING?
2╙┴ 24:4 ╬OTWITHSTANDING THE KING'S WORD PREVAILED AGAINST ╩OAB, AND AGAINST THE CAPTAINS OF THE HOST. ┴ND ╩OAB AND THE CAPTAINS OF THE HOST WENT OUT FROM THE PRESENCE OF THE KING, TO NUMBER THE PEOPLE OF ╔SRAEL.
2╙┴ 24:5 ┴ND THEY PASSED OVER ╩ORDAN, AND PITCHED IN ┴ROER, ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE CITY THAT LIETH IN THE MIDST OF THE RIVER OF ╟AD, AND TOWARD ╩AZER:
2╙┴ 24:6 ╘HEN THEY CAME TO ╟ILEAD, AND TO THE LAND OF ╘AHTIMHODSHI; AND THEY CAME TO ─ANJAAN, AND ABOUT TO ┌IDON,
2╙┴ 24:7 ┴ND CAME TO THE STRONG HOLD OF ╘YRE, AND TO ALL THE CITIES OF THE ╚IVITES, AND OF THE ├ANAANITES: AND THEY WENT OUT TO THE SOUTH OF ╩UDAH, EVEN TO ┬EERSHEBA.
2╙┴ 24:8 ╙O WHEN THEY HAD GONE THROUGH ALL THE LAND, THEY CAME TO ╩ERUSALEM AT THE END OF NINE MONTHS AND TWENTY DAYS.
2╙┴ 24:9 ┴ND ╩OAB GAVE UP THE SUM OF THE NUMBER OF THE PEOPLE UNTO THE KING: AND THERE WERE IN ╔SRAEL EIGHT HUNDRED THOUSAND VALIANT MEN THAT DREW THE SWORD; AND THE MEN OF ╩UDAH WERE FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND MEN.
2╙┴ 24:10 ┴ND ─AVID'S HEART SMOTE HIM AFTER THAT HE HAD NUMBERED THE PEOPLE. ┴ND ─AVID SAID UNTO THE ╠╧╥─, ╔ HAVE SINNED GREATLY IN THAT ╔ HAVE DONE: AND NOW, ╔ BESEECH THEE, ╧ ╠╧╥─, TAKE AWAY THE INIQUITY OF THY SERVANT; FOR ╔ HAVE DONE VERY FOOLISHLY.
2╙┴ 24:11 ╞OR WHEN ─AVID WAS UP IN THE MORNING, THE WORD OF THE ╠╧╥─ CAME UNTO THE PROPHET ╟AD, ─AVID'S SEER, SAYING,
2╙┴ 24:12 ╟O AND SAY UNTO ─AVID, ╘HUS SAITH THE ╠╧╥─, ╔ OFFER THEE THREE THINGS; CHOOSE THEE ONE OF THEM, THAT ╔ MAY DO IT UNTO THEE.
2╙┴ 24:13 ╙O ╟AD CAME TO ─AVID, AND TOLD HIM, AND SAID UNTO HIM, ╙HALL SEVEN YEARS OF FAMINE COME UNTO THEE IN THY LAND? OR WILT THOU FLEE THREE MONTHS BEFORE THINE ENEMIES, WHILE THEY PURSUE THEE? OR THAT THERE BE THREE DAYS' PESTILENCE IN THY LAND? NOW ADVISE, AND SEE WHAT ANSWER ╔ SHALL RETURN TO HIM THAT SENT ME.
2╙┴ 24:14 ┴ND ─AVID SAID UNTO ╟AD, ╔ AM IN A GREAT STRAIT: LET US FALL NOW INTO THE HAND OF THE ╠╧╥─; FOR HIS MERCIES ARE GREAT: AND LET ME NOT FALL INTO THE HAND OF MAN.
2╙┴ 24:15 ╙O THE ╠╧╥─ SENT A PESTILENCE UPON ╔SRAEL FROM THE MORNING EVEN TO THE TIME APPOINTED: AND THERE DIED OF THE PEOPLE FROM ─AN EVEN TO ┬EERSHEBA SEVENTY THOUSAND MEN.
2╙┴ 24:16 ┴ND WHEN THE ANGEL STRETCHED OUT HIS HAND UPON ╩ERUSALEM TO DESTROY IT, THE ╠╧╥─ REPENTED HIM OF THE EVIL, AND SAID TO THE ANGEL THAT DESTROYED THE PEOPLE, ╔T IS ENOUGH: STAY NOW THINE HAND. ┴ND THE ANGEL OF THE ╠╧╥─ WAS BY THE THRESHINGPLACE OF ┴RAUNAH THE ╩EBUSITE.
2╙┴ 24:17 ┴ND ─AVID SPAKE UNTO THE ╠╧╥─ WHEN HE SAW THE ANGEL THAT SMOTE THE PEOPLE, AND SAID, ╠O, ╔ HAVE SINNED, AND ╔ HAVE DONE WICKEDLY: BUT THESE SHEEP, WHAT HAVE THEY DONE? LET THINE HAND, ╔ PRAY THEE, BE AGAINST ME, AND AGAINST MY FATHER'S HOUSE.
2╙┴ 24:18 ┴ND ╟AD CAME THAT DAY TO ─AVID, AND SAID UNTO HIM, ╟O UP, REAR AN ALTAR UNTO THE ╠╧╥─ IN THE THRESHINGFLOOR OF ┴RAUNAH THE ╩EBUSITE.
2╙┴ 24:19 ┴ND ─AVID, ACCORDING TO THE SAYING OF ╟AD, WENT UP AS THE ╠╧╥─ COMMANDED.
2╙┴ 24:20 ┴ND ┴RAUNAH LOOKED, AND SAW THE KING AND HIS SERVANTS COMING ON TOWARD HIM: AND ┴RAUNAH WENT OUT, AND BOWED HIMSELF BEFORE THE KING ON HIS FACE UPON THE GROUND.
2╙┴ 24:21 ┴ND ┴RAUNAH SAID, ╫HEREFORE IS MY LORD THE KING COME TO HIS SERVANT? ┴ND ─AVID SAID, ╘O BUY THE THRESHINGFLOOR OF THEE, TO BUILD AN ALTAR UNTO THE ╠╧╥─, THAT THE PLAGUE MAY BE STAYED FROM THE PEOPLE.
2╙┴ 24:22 ┴ND ┴RAUNAH SAID UNTO ─AVID, ╠ET MY LORD THE KING TAKE AND OFFER UP WHAT SEEMETH GOOD UNTO HIM: BEHOLD, HERE BE OXEN FOR BURNT SACRIFICE, AND THRESHING INSTRUMENTS AND OTHER INSTRUMENTS OF THE OXEN FOR WOOD.
2╙┴ 24:23 ┴LL THESE THINGS DID ┴RAUNAH, AS A KING, GIVE UNTO THE KING. ┴ND ┴RAUNAH SAID UNTO THE KING, ╘HE ╠╧╥─ THY ╟OD ACCEPT THEE.
2╙┴ 24:24 ┴ND THE KING SAID UNTO ┴RAUNAH, ╬AY; BUT ╔ WILL SURELY BUY IT OF THEE AT A PRICE: NEITHER WILL ╔ OFFER BURNT OFFERINGS UNTO THE ╠╧╥─ MY ╟OD OF THAT WHICH DOTH COST ME NOTHING. ╙O ─AVID BOUGHT THE THRESHINGFLOOR AND THE OXEN FOR FIFTY SHEKELS OF SILVER.
2╙┴ 24:25 ┴ND ─AVID BUILT THERE AN ALTAR UNTO THE ╠╧╥─, AND OFFERED BURNT OFFERINGS AND PEACE OFFERINGS. ╙O THE ╠╧╥─ WAS INTREATED FOR THE LAND, AND THE PLAGUE WAS STAYED FROM ╔SRAEL.
