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For all His judgments were before me,And as for His statutes, I did not depart from them.

For You are my lamp, O Yahweh;And Yahweh illumines my darkness.

For by You I can run upon a troop;By my God I can leap over a wall.

As for God, His way is blameless;The word of Yahweh is tried;He is a shield to all who take refuge in Him.

For who is God, but Yahweh?And who is a rock, but our God?

He trains my hands for battle,So that my arms can bend a bow of bronze.

For You have girded me with strength for battle;You have subdued under me those who rose up against me.

The God who executes vengeance for me,And brings down peoples under me,

Truly is not my house so with God?For He has made an everlasting covenant with me,Ordered in all things, and secured;For all my salvation and all my desire,Will He not indeed make it grow?

Then David's heart struck him after he had counted the people. So David said to Yahweh, "I have sinned greatly in what I have done. But now, O Yahweh, please take away the iniquity of Your slave, for I have acted very foolishly."

"Go and speak to David, ‘Thus says Yahweh, "I am offering you three things; choose for yourself one of them, and I will do that to you."'"

Then David said to Gad, "I am in great distress. Let us now fall into the hand of Yahweh, for His compassions are abundant. But do not let me fall into the hand of man."

And Araunah said to David, "Let my lord the king take and offer up what is good in his sight. Look, the oxen for the burnt offering, the threshing sledges and the yokes of the oxen for the wood.

However, the king said to Araunah, "No, but I will surely buy it from you for a price, for I will not offer burnt offerings to Yahweh my God which cost me nothing." So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.

Then David built there an altar to Yahweh and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. Thus Yahweh was moved by the entreaty for the land, and the plague was checked from being upon Israel.

So his servants said to him, "Let them seek a young virgin for my lord the king, and let her stand before the king and become his nurse; and let her lie in your bosom, that my lord the king may keep warm."

So they sought for a beautiful young woman throughout all the territory of Israel, and found Abishag the Shunammite, and brought her to the king.

Now Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, "I will be king." So he prepared for himself a chariot and horsemen and fifty men as runners before him.

So now come, please let me give you counsel and provide escape for your life and the life of your son Solomon.

As for you now, my lord the king, the eyes of all Israel are on you, to tell them who shall sit on the throne of my lord the king after him.