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"And I will appoint a place for My people Israel, and will plant them there, so that they may live in their own place and not tremble with anxiety again; and the wicked will not make them waste away anymore as they did previously,

According to all these words and according to all of this vision, so Nathan spoke to David.

So David reigned over all Israel; and he administered justice and righteousness for all his people.

Then David said, "I will show kindness to Hanun the son of Nahash, because his father showed kindness to me." So David sent messengers to console him concerning his father. And David's servants came into the land of the sons of Ammon to Hanun to console him.

So Hanun took David's servants and shaved them, and cut off their robes in the middle as far as their buttocks, and sent them away.

So they hired for themselves thirty-two thousand chariots, and the king of Maacah and his people, who came and camped opposite Medeba. And the sons of Ammon gathered together from their cities and came to the battle.

So Joab and the people who were with him advanced to battle against the Arameans, and they fled from him.

So when the servants of Hadadezer saw that they had been defeated by Israel, they made peace with David and served him. So the Arameans were not willing to help the sons of Ammon anymore.

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

Now God was displeased with this thing, so He struck Israel.

So Gad came to David and said to him, "This is what the LORD says: 'Take for yourself

So the LORD sent a plague on Israel; seventy thousand men of Israel fell.

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

Then David said to Ornan, "Give me the site of this threshing floor, so that I may build on it an altar to the LORD; you shall give it to me for the full price, so that the plague may be brought to a halt from the people."

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

So David gave orders to gather the strangers who were in the land of Israel, and he set stonecutters to cut out stones to build the house of God.

David said, "My son Solomon is young and inexperienced, and the house that is to be built for the LORD shall be exceedingly magnificent, famous, and glorious throughout the lands. Therefore I now will make preparations for it." So David made ample preparations before his death.

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

"Only the LORD give you discretion and understanding, and put you in charge of Israel, so that you may keep the Law of the LORD your God.

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