| Overview - 2 Samuel 24 | |
| 1 | David, tempted by Satan, forces Joab to number the people. |
| 5 | The captains, in nine months and twenty days, bring the muster of thirteen hundred thousand fighting men. |
| 10 | David repents, and having three plagues propounded by God, chooses the three days' pestilence. |
| 15 | After the death of three score and ten thousand, David by prayer prevents the destruction of Jerusalem. |
| 18 | David, by God's direction, purchases Araunah's threshing floor; where having sacrificed, the plague stays. |
2 Samuel 24:16 (King James Version)
And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough: stay now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD was by the threshingplace of Araunah the Jebusite.