Study Desk

So David said to Joab and to the princes of the people, "Go, count Israel from Beersheba even to Dan, and bring me word that I may know their total count."

Nevertheless, the king's word stood strong against Joab. So, Joab went out and went throughout all Israel, and came to Jerusalem.

And this thing was displeasing in the sight of God, so He struck Israel.

So Gad came to David and said to him, "Thus says Yahweh, ‘Take for yourself

either three years of famine, or three months to be swept away before your adversaries, while the sword of your enemies overtakes you, or else three days of the sword of Yahweh, even pestilence in the land, and the angel of Yahweh destroying throughout all the territory of Israel.' So now, see what word I should return to Him who sent me."

So Yahweh sent a pestilence against Israel; and 70,000 men of Israel fell.

So David went up at the word of Gad, which he spoke in the name of Yahweh.

So David gave Ornan 600 shekels of gold by weight for the site.

So David said to gather the sojourners who were in the land of Israel, and he appointed stonecutters to hew out stones to build the house of God.

And David said, "My son Solomon is young and inexperienced, and the house that is to be built for Yahweh shall be highly exalted, for a name and beauty throughout all lands. Therefore now I will make preparation for it." So David made ample preparations before his death.

But the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, ‘You have shed much blood and have waged great wars; you shall not build a house for My name, because you have shed so much blood on the earth before Me.

Only Yahweh give you insight and understanding, and give you command over Israel, so that you may keep the law of Yahweh your God.

Now give your heart and your soul to seek Yahweh your God; arise, therefore, and build the sanctuary of Yahweh God, so that you may bring the ark of the covenant of Yahweh and the holy vessels of God into the house that is to be built for the name of Yahweh."

Jahath was the first and Zizah the second; but Jeush and Beriah did not have many sons, so they became a father's household, one unit.

And Eleazar died and had no sons, but daughters only, so their brothers, the sons of Kish, took them up as wives.

But Nadab and Abihu died before their father and had no sons. So Eleazar and Ithamar ministered as priests.

And more chief men were found from the sons of Eleazar than the sons of Ithamar, so they divided them thus: there were sixteen heads of fathers' households of the sons of Eleazar and eight of the sons of Ithamar, according to their fathers' households.

All these were the sons of Heman the king's seer to exalt him according to the words of God. So God gave fourteen sons and three daughters to Heman.

Then King David rose to his feet and said, "Listen to me, my brothers and my people; I had it within my heart to build a house of rest for the ark of the covenant of Yahweh and for the footstool of the feet of our God. So I had made preparations to build it.

So now, in the sight of all Israel, the assembly of Yahweh, and in the hearing of our God, keep and seek after all the commandments of Yahweh your God so that you may possess the good land and cause your sons after you to inherit it forever.