| 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 24:22 (King James Version)
And Araunah said unto David, Let 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.