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and Benaiah and Jahaziel the priests were to blow trumpets regularly before the ark of the covenant of God.

He is the Lord our God; his judgments are in all the earth.

Say also: "Save us, O God of our salvation, and gather and deliver us from among the nations, that we may give thanks to your holy name and glory in your praise.

Blessed be the Lord , the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting!" Then all the people said, "Amen!" and praised the Lord .

And Nathan said to David, "Do all that is in your heart, for God is with you."

Then King David went in and sat before the Lord and said, "Who am I, O Lord God, and what is my house, that you have brought me thus far?

And this was a small thing in your eyes, O God. You have also spoken of your servant's house for a great while to come, and have shown me future generations, O Lord God!

There is none like you, O Lord , and there is no God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears.

And who is like your people Israel, the one nation on earth whom God went to redeem to be his people, making for yourself a name for great and awesome things, in driving out nations before your people whom you redeemed from Egypt?

And you made your people Israel to be your people forever, and you, O Lord , became their God.

and your name will be established and magnified forever, saying, ‘The Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, is Israel's God,' and the house of your servant David will be established before you.

For you, my God, have revealed to your servant that you will build a house for him. Therefore your servant has found courage to pray before you.

And now, O Lord , you are God, and you have promised this good thing to your servant.

Be strong, and let us use our strength for our people and for the cities of our God, and may the Lord do what seems good to him."

But God was displeased with this thing, and he struck Israel.

And David said to God, "I have sinned greatly in that I have done this thing. But now, please take away the iniquity of your servant, for I have acted very foolishly."

And God sent the angel to Jerusalem to destroy it, but as he was about to destroy it, the Lord saw, and he relented from the calamity. And he said to the angel who was working destruction, "It is enough; now stay your hand." And the angel of the Lord was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

And David said to God, "Was it not I who gave command to number the people? It is I who have sinned and done great evil. But these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand, O Lord my God, be against me and against my father's house. But do not let the plague be on your people."

but David could not go before it to inquire of God, for he was afraid of the sword of the angel of the Lord .

Then David said, "Here shall be the house of the Lord God and here the altar of burnt offering for Israel."