2 Samuel 24:5

Overview - 2 Samuel 24
David, tempted by Satan, forces Joab to number the people.
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.
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2 Samuel 24:5  (King James Version)
And they passed over Jordan, and pitched in Aroer, on the right side of the city that lieth in the midst of the river of Gad, and toward Jazer:
 


Aroer
Deuteronomy 2:36 ; Joshua 13:9 Joshua 13:16 ; 1 Samuel 30:28 ; Isaiah 17:2

river
or, valley. Jazer.
Numbers 32:1 Numbers 32:3 Numbers 32:35 ; Isaiah 16:8 Isaiah 16:9