1 Satan made David want to count the people of Israel. 2 David told Joab, “Go count all the people in the land and tell me the number.” 3 Joab said, “May God make the people many, many more! But why do this? It may be bad.” 4 But the king still said, “Go.” So Joab went to count the people. ♂️ 5 Joab came back and told the big numbers for Israel and for Judah. 6 Joab did not count Levi or Benjamin, because he did not like the king’s order. ✋ 7 God did not like this thing. God sent trouble to the land. ⚠️ 8 David said to God, “I did a bad thing. Please forgive me.” 9 God talked to Gad, the man of God for David. ️ 10 God said to Gad, “Tell David I give three choices. He must pick one.” 1️⃣2️⃣3️⃣ 11 Gad went to David and told him what God said. ♂️ 12 “Pick: 3 years with no food, or 3 months running from bad men, or 3 days of a big sick with God’s angel.” ⏳♂️ 13 David said, “I am in big trouble. Let me fall into God’s hand, for God is very kind. Do not let me fall into man’s hand.” ❤️ 14 So God sent a big sick on Israel, and 70,000 men died. ⚰️ 15 God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it. But God said, “Stop. That is enough.” The angel stopped by Ornan’s grain yard. ✋ 16 David looked up and saw the angel with a sword over the city. David and the old leaders wore rough cloth and fell on the ground. ️️ 17 David said, “I told them to count. I did the bad thing. Please hit me and my house, not the people.” 18 God’s angel told Gad to tell David, “Build a place for gifts to God on Ornan’s grain yard.” 19 David did what Gad said. He went up to that place. ♂️✅ 20 Ornan was working with grain. He looked and saw the angel. His four sons ran and hid. ♂️♂️♂️♂️ 21 David came to Ornan. Ornan saw David and bowed down. 22 David said, “Please sell me this grain yard. I will build a place for gifts to God here, so the sick will stop. I will pay all the money it costs.” ➡️⛔ 23 Ornan said, “Take it! I give the yard, the cows for the fire gift, the wood, and the grain. I give all.” 24 The king said, “No. I will buy it for full price. I will not give God a gift that costs me nothing.” ✋ 25 David paid a lot of gold for the place. 26 David built the place and gave gifts to God. He called to God. God answered with fire from the sky on the gift place. ⚡ 27 God told the angel to stop. The angel put away his sword. ✋️➡️️ 28 David saw God answered at Ornan’s place. He kept giving gifts to God there. 29 God’s tent and the big gift place were in a town named Gibeon. ⛺️ 30 David did not go there, because he was afraid of the angel’s sword. ️