Joab answered, “May GOD increase the people a hundredfold; my lord king, are they not all subjects of my lord? Why should my lord require this? Why should it be a cause of guilt for Israel?”
Word-by-Word Analysis
ויאמר
257
יואב
19
יוסף
156
יהוה
26
עלעמוכהם
281
מאה
46
פעמים
240
הלא
36
אדני
65
המלך
95
כלם
90
לאדני
95
לעבדים
156
למה
75
יבקש
412
זאת
408
אדני
65
למה
75
יהיה
30
לאשמה
376
לישראל
571
I Chronicles 21:4
Gematria: 2336
ודברהמלךחזקעליואבויצאיואבויתהלךבכלישראלויבאירושלם
However, the king’s command to Joab remained firm, so Joab set out and traversed all Israel; he then came to Jerusalem.
Joab reported to David the number of the people that had been recorded. All Israel comprised 1,100,000 ready to draw the sword, while in Judah there were 470,000 ready to draw the sword.
Word-by-Word Analysis
ויתן
466
יואב
19
אתמספר
781
מפקדהעם
339
אלדויד
55
ויהי
31
כלישראל
591
אלף
111
אלפים
161
ומאה
52
אלף
111
איש
311
שלף
410
חרב
210
ויהודה
36
ארבע
273
מאות
447
ושבעים
428
אלף
111
איש
311
שלףחרב
620
I Chronicles 21:6
Gematria: 2166
ולויובנימןלאפקדבתוכםכינתעבדברהמלךאתיואב
He did not record among them Levi and Benjamin, because the king’s command had become repugnant to Joab.
Word-by-Word Analysis
ולוי
52
ובנימן
158
לא
31
פקד
184
בתוכם
468
כינתעב
552
דברהמלך
301
אתיואב
420
I Chronicles 21:7
Gematria: 1885
וירעבעיניהאלהיםעלהדברהזהויךאתישראלס
God, being displeased about this matter, struck Israel.
a three-year famine; or that you be swept away three months before your adversaries with the sword of your enemies overtaking you; or three days of the sword of GOD, pestilence in the land, the angel of GOD wreaking destruction throughout the territory of Israel. Now consider what reply I shall take back to the One who sent me.”
God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it, but as he was about to wreak destruction, GOD saw and renounced further punishment and said to the destroying angel, “Enough! Stay your hand!” The angel of GOD was then standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
David looked up and saw the angel of GOD standing between heaven and earth, with a drawn sword in his hand directed against Jerusalem. David and the elders, covered in sackcloth, threw themselves on their faces.
David said to God, “Was it not I alone who ordered the numbering of the people? I alone am guilty, and have caused severe harm; but these sheep, what have they done? O my ETERNAL God, let Your hand fall upon me and my father’s house, and let not Your people be plagued!”
David said to Ornan, “Sell me the site of the threshing floor, that I may build on it an altar to GOD. Sell it to me at the full price, that the plague against the people will be checked.”
Ornan said to David, “Take it and let my lord the king do whatever he sees fit. See, I donate oxen for burnt offerings, and the threshing boards for wood, as well as wheat for a grain offering—I donate all of it.”
But King David replied to Ornan, “No, I will buy them at the full price. I cannot make a present to GOD of what belongs to you, or sacrifice a burnt offering that has cost me nothing.”
Word-by-Word Analysis
ויאמר
257
המלך
95
דויד
24
לארנן
331
לא
31
כיקנה
185
אקנה
156
בכסף
162
מלא
71
כי
30
לאאשא
333
אשרלך
551
ליהוה
56
והעלות
517
עולה
111
חנם
98
I Chronicles 21:25
Gematria: 2980
ויתןדוידלארנןבמקוםשקליזהבמשקלששמאות
So David paid Ornan for the site 600 shekels’ worth of gold.
And David built there an altar to GOD and sacrificed burnt offerings and offerings of well-being. He invoked GOD, who answered him with fire from heaven on the altar of burnt offerings.
Word-by-Word Analysis
ויבן
68
שם
340
דויד
24
מזבח
57
ליהוה
56
ויעל
116
עלות
506
ושלמים
426
ויקרא
317
אליהוה
57
ויענהו
147
באש
303
מןהשמים
485
על
100
מזבח
57
העלהס
170
I Chronicles 21:27
Gematria: 1078
ויאמריהוהלמלאךוישבחרבואלנדנה
GOD ordered the angel to return his sword to its sheath.
Word-by-Word Analysis
ויאמר
257
יהוה
26
למלאך
121
וישב
318
חרבו
216
אלנדנה
140
I Chronicles 21:28
Gematria: 2335
בעתההיאבראותדוידכיענהויהוהבגרןארנןהיבוסיויזבחשם
At that time, when David saw that GOD answered him at the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, then he sacrificed there—