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highlighted 1 Kings 1:35 NLT
Then escort him back here, and he will sit on my throne. He will succeed me as king, for I have appointed him to be ruler over Israel and Judah.”
Mar 18
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highlighted 1 Kings 1:33-34 NLT
the king said to them, “Take Solomon and my officials down to Gihon Spring. Solomon is to ride on my own mule. There Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet are to anoint him king over Israel. Blow the ram’s horn and shout, ‘Long live King Solomon!’
Mar 18
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highlighted 2 Samuel 24:25 NLT
David built an altar there to the LORD and sacrificed burnt offerings and peace offerings. And the LORD answered his prayer for the land, and the plague on Israel was stopped.
Mar 17
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highlighted 2 Samuel 24:24 NLT
But the king replied to Araunah, “No, I insist on buying it, for I will not present burnt offerings to the LORD my God that have cost me nothing.” So David paid him fifty pieces of silver for the threshing floor and the oxen.
Mar 17
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highlighted 2 Samuel 24:22-23 NLT
“Take it, my lord the king, and use it as you wish,” Araunah said to David. “Here are oxen for the burnt offering, and you can use the threshing boards and ox yokes for wood to build a fire on the altar. I will give it all to you, Your Majesty, and may the LORD your God accept your sacrifice.”
Mar 17
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highlighted 2 Samuel 24:21 NLT
“Why have you come, my lord the king?” Araunah asked. David replied, “I have come to buy your threshing floor and to build an altar to the LORD there, so that he will stop the plague.”
Mar 17
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highlighted 2 Samuel 24:19 NLT
So David went up to do what the LORD had commanded him.
Mar 17
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highlighted 2 Samuel 24:18 NLT
That day Gad came to David and said to him, “Go up and build an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.”
Mar 17
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highlighted 2 Samuel 24:17 NLT
When David saw the angel, he said to the LORD, “I am the one who has sinned and done wrong! But these people are as innocent as sheep—what have they done? Let your anger fall against me and my family.”
Mar 17
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highlighted 2 Samuel 24:16 NLT
But as the angel was preparing to destroy Jerusalem, the LORD relented and said to the death angel, “Stop! That is enough!” At that moment the angel of the LORD was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.
Mar 17
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highlighted 2 Samuel 24:15 NLT
So the LORD sent a plague upon Israel that morning, and it lasted for three days. A total of 70,000 people died throughout the nation, from Dan in the north to Beersheba in the south.
Mar 17
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highlighted 2 Samuel 24:14 NLT
“I’m in a desperate situation!” David replied to Gad. “But let us fall into the hands of the LORD, for his mercy is great. Do not let me fall into human hands.”
Mar 17
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highlighted 2 Samuel 24:13 NLT
So Gad came to David and asked him, “Will you choose three years of famine throughout your land, three months of fleeing from your enemies, or three days of severe plague throughout your land? Think this over and decide what answer I should give the LORD who sent me.”
Mar 17
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highlighted 2 Samuel 24:12 NLT
“Go and say to David, ‘This is what the LORD says: I will give you three choices. Choose one of these punishments, and I will inflict it on you.’”
Mar 17
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highlighted 2 Samuel 24:11 NLT
The next morning the word of the LORD came to the prophet Gad, who was David’s seer. This was the message:
Mar 17
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highlighted 2 Samuel 24:10 NLT
But after he had taken the census, David’s conscience began to bother him. And he said to the LORD, “I have sinned greatly by taking this census. Please forgive my guilt, LORD, for doing this foolish thing.”
Mar 17
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highlighted 2 Samuel 24:9 NLT
Joab reported the number of people to the king. There were 800,000 capable warriors in Israel who could handle a sword, and 500,000 in Judah.
Mar 17
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highlighted 2 Samuel 24:4 NLT
But the king insisted that they take the census, so Joab and the commanders of the army went out to count the people of Israel.
Mar 17
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highlighted 2 Samuel 24:3 NLT
But Joab replied to the king, “May the LORD your God let you live to see a hundred times as many people as there are now! But why, my lord the king, do you want to do this?”
Mar 17
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highlighted 2 Samuel 24:2 NLT
So the king said to Joab and the commanders of the army, “Take a census of all the tribes of Israel—from Dan in the north to Beersheba in the south—so I may know how many people there are.”
Mar 17