Incited to pride, David orders a census of Israel’s fighting men against Joab’s protest, trusting in numbers rather than the LORD. His conscience smites him, and when offered three judgments he chooses to fall into God’s merciful hand; a plague strikes until the angel stands at the threshing floor of Ornan. David buys the site at full price, refusing to offer what costs him nothing, builds an altar, and the LORD answers with fire and stays the plague — marking the place of the future temple.
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1 Chronicles 21
c. 975 BCDavid’s proud census brings a plague; he buys Ornan’s threshing floor for an altar.
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