David pleads for the people

The Census, the Plague, and Ornan’s Altar · 1 Chronicles 21

Story guide: David accepts responsibility and pleads that the people be spared. Unspecified appearances and settings provide contextual imagery; Scripture remains the source.

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17Then David said to God, “Was it not I who ordered the people to be counted? I am the one who has sinned and done great evil. But these sheep—what have they done? O Yahweh my God, please let your hand be against me and against my father’s house, but not against your people for a plague.”

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