2 Samuel 24:9

2 Samuel 24:9 in other translations

2 Samuel 24:9 in context

1. 7and came to the stronghold of Tyre, and to all the cities of the Hivites, and of the Canaanites; and they went out to the south of Judah, at Beersheba.
2. 8So when they had gone back and forth through all the land, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.
3. 9Joab gave up the sum of the counting of the people to the king: and there were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men who drew the sword; and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand men.
4. 10David’s heart struck him after he had counted the people. David said to Yahweh, “I have sinned greatly in that which I have done. But now, Yahweh, put away, I beg you, the iniquity of your servant; for I have done very foolishly.”
5. 11When David rose up in the morning, Yahweh’s word came to the prophet Gad, David’s seer, saying,